When I was a kid, I used to watch all those Sunday afternoon matinees featuring all the Hollywood greats.
Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.
True, I drive an Italian sports car around Hollywood, but the radio is tuned to a country-and-Western station.
I consider myself a student of Hollywood.
I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.
I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter.
Hollywood is a world all its own.
I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they’ll be in a totally different category. People won’t take them seriously. They’ll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
I want to be a positive role-model for my daughter. The last thing I want to put out there is that it’s acceptable to be too thin or have an eating disorder because you’re in Hollywood.
I was told once that I didn’t play the Hollywood game, and that’s why I wasn’t a big star. What they meant when was that I don’t go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don’t like the script, they know it.
Hollywood wants press, any kind of press.
I did ‘Mala Noche’ as a way to do something that was outside of the system, because I was outside of the system, and I deliberately chose material that Hollywood wouldn’t touch in a million years.
I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow’s footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.
I think I have always tried to do the smaller films. I like to jump around and there is something really nice for acting in a smaller film. But I think now, Hollywood’s movies certainly involve a younger generation for the most part and so… I love going back and forth.
The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don’t really want to do.
Hollywood is finally waking up to the fact that people who go to church also go to the movies. I’m not sure what took them so long to see that or how long they’ll keep it up.
In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you’ve got osteoporosis.
In Hollywood, no one is happy with who they are. When they’re young, they want to look older. When they’re older, they’re getting botox shot in their face to look younger.
Hollywood is not known as a culture of grace. Dog-eat-dog is more like it. People love you one day and hate you the next. Personal value is very much attached to box office revenues and the unpredictable and often cruel winds of fashion.
This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.
The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
I think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use.
I have to make my bones with Hollywood to get in. And when I do maybe I’ll metamorphose from Mr. Muscles or whatever it is I am now and become an irascible tosser.
I’m not Hollywood. I’m a Quarter Rat. I belong here.
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth… suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?
Hollywood is going to have to find a way of meeting those profit goals.
I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you’ve made it.
For American filmmakers, the Oscars is like a mystic thing. For me, it was being in a mirror of my dreams when I was dreaming of Hollywood when I was an adolescent.
Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.
I’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.
It’s my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.
As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic.
I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don’t want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life.
When I was a teenager, my dad used to call me ‘Hollywood’ because I wore sunglasses all the time, even at night. Cue song.
Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.
I don’t think I ever understood Hollywood.
Most Americans in both red and blue states reject and resent the message being sent by Hollywood and some in the media that values are subjective, to be defined by the individual and not by God.
At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London’s West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect.
Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic.
The crazy thing about ‘Hook’ was it was one of the movies in town that everybody knew about. It was the biggest film shooting in Hollywood at the time and the idea of Robin Williams playing Peter Pan really captured everybody’s imagination.
Most movies suck, even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you’re a Hall of Famer.
I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows.
I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look.
In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.
Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I’ve never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn’t surprise me in some way, I simply can’t commit to the project.
Thank you, Hollywood, for allowing me to be part of your group.
The whole idea of doing the Hollywood thing never even occurred to me. When you grow up on the East coast, Hollywood seems like this fantasy land and you don’t think that people can actually make a living there.
Both Kennedy and Obama exuded a dash of glamour in their roles as commander-in-chief and became the darlings of Hollywood. As president, each brought to the White House a fashionable and accomplished First Lady, two adorable young children and scene-stealing pets.
Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.
Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It’s a company town, and I happen to like the company!
One of the things that drives me crazy is the belief in Hollywood that bittorrent exists solely for stealing things.
In Hollywood, what they last saw you in is what you are. It’s hard to break away from that.
If you take the ’70s with Blaxploitation pictures, there was a proliferation of black-content films and motion pictures, television, stage plays and so forth at a time when Hollywood was in trouble financially, and it was cheaper to do black films to keep the lights on until they could reestablish themselves.
I didn’t come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don’t want to be considered a cool actor – I want to be a great actor.
When I first came here, Hollywood was very closed-minded.
In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don’t want to be a tennis player.
I’d done a lot of research in Hollywood and in academia. I love research and so I wanted to kind of ground the book in history, in things that I read that were universal and timeless and then kind of let my own experiences sort of filter through all of this history.
Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It’s an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.
I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.
It’s tough when take 1 is technically okay and take 2 has better acting. Out here (Hollywood) they print the first one. That’s the one where we all hit the mark on the floor and who cares about the acting.
I guess you get pigeon-holed in Hollywood, but I’m ok with that because I’ve been able to do a lot. I started in the theater, then I went to stand-up comedy, and then when I went into the movies to do comedy and drama and big movies and small movies.
Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.
Because I direct films, I have to live in a major English-speaking production center. That narrows it down to three places: Los Angeles, New York and London. I like New York, but it’s inferior to London as a production center. Hollywood is best, but I don’t like living there.
