Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season’s episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn’t possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood.
I came in on the tail end of the old school of Hollywood.
Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews.
I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time.
I was something that is always hated in Hollywood – a perfectionist; nobody likes a perfectionist, you know.
Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I’m not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera.
On the last couple of movies I made – big-budget Hollywood movies – I really missed being able to create my own material.
How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?
It seems the farther away we are from Hollywood, the better the ratings.
On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that’s not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it’s not what the majority of the country is thinking.
Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.
There’s the Hollywood sign; there’s Griffith Observatory; there’s the great, amazing Los Angeles Basin. It’s 465 square miles of insanity and the best food on the planet.
And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives – they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.
What I have found to be so interesting in my life and with my friends and family who have ‘normal jobs’ where they don’t play pretend for a living is that… Hollywood is absurd but very open about its absurdity.
The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.
In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I’ve never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it’s still okay with me.
Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.
Everybody wants the Hollywood glamour of the Premier League.
Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn’t live in our small rented home any longer.
That’s all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
I have this theory that people in Hollywood don’t read. They read ‘Vanity Fair’ and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don’t have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant’s knee or something like that.
I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.
Hey, it’s a miracle to have a career in Hollywood. But it doesn’t begin to sum me up.
This is the place to see the stars – Hollywood Bowl.
I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit.
I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.
The great thing for me about ‘The Resurrection of Gavin Stone’ is it’s a throwback to the old fashioned Hollywood movie that you can watch with your family, has a message, and is funny and entertaining. They didn’t call them faith-based movies; they just called them good movies.
My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.
I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there’s always a question of taste.
My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.
You know, I’m not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood – particularly agents and managers – they’re all in a hurry.
If God doesn’t destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.
I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood.
You don’t want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything.
So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.
If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine’s Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine’s Day. I said no.
I’ve played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things like that.
I remember when ‘The Right Stuff’ opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove my car down to the theatre that it was playing on, thinking that there would be mobs of people outside. When I looked, there was nobody there.
They had taken me to an exhibit called ‘Psychiatry: Industry of Death’ on Hollywood Boulevard, where a Scientologist told me psychiatrists set up the Holocaust. I feared I was being brain-washed. And then I lost it – big time.
My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
If you’re doing an hour-long show, you’re working movie hours, doing a 12-15-hour day. We work three or four hours a day, and get every third or fourth week off to give the writers time to write. It’s the cushiest job in Hollywood.
Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.
Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It’s more about Larry’s weaknesses.
I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.
In today’s world, America’s soft power is commonly thought to reside in the global popularity of Hollywood movies, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Starbucks.
I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.
Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore are two of the most charming A-listers in Hollywood.
I think Hollywood is so driven by money, the people who are making the decisions are not necessarily reflective of the melting pot, so what stories are you going to want to tell? You’re going to want to tell stories about yourself.
I was scouted at the age of 10 by a Hollywood agent. I was a really shy, geeky-looking thing, and started in the industry by doing ‘extra’ work on films.
My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.
In Mumbai, it’s almost like Hollywood. They can appeal to different segments and still be successful. There are multiplex audiences to whom you can showcase any lifestyle. But in Tamil cinema, we need to satisfy everybody, whether urban or rural.
I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I’ll start acting in them again.
No studio in Hollywood wanted ‘Cold Mountain.’ None. No one wanted ‘Ripley,’ no one wanted ‘The English Patient.’ That tells you there isn’t really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.
I find Hollywood really toxic.
I know him as Terry. Hulk Hogan has probably done more for wrestling than anybody has. He got Hollywood involved in wrestling. Hogan was a big guy, but that big ol’ guy could move, and he knew how to get those people going. He had it all. He got pro wrestling to a whole new level.
Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It’s not going to do me any good.
I’m a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
The goal wasn’t to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about – the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.
My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go – not too often, but every now and then – to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records.
