Hollywood Quotes
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I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.
Haile Gerima -
Yeah, and everybody who moves out to L.A. gets that Hollywood thing in their blood, and their second record always sounds like shit.And if we end up there,we take it back. --On Fame
Tyson Jay Ritter The All-American Rejects
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I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
Hollywood gave us far more Muslim terrorists in the Eighties and Nineties than it has since 9/11.
Mark Steyn -
I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.
Bryan Adams -
The technology companies don't understand creative things at all. Silicon Valley's view of the creative process in Hollywood is a bunch of guys in their young thirties sitting on a couch, drinking beer, and thinking up jokes.
Steve Jobs -
I still pinch myself that I ended up in Hollywood. And I am still surprised at the fans.
Verne Troyer -
Every actor. every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood or else you are nothing.
Rita Hayworth
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The city, Hollywood and the entertainment industry, it was sort of dehumanizing.
John Kay Steppenwolf -
Isn't Hollywood - and I love movies - a lot of it about a big lie?
Chris Matthews -
The last thing I want to turn into is a fat Hollywood jerk. I was brought up without much money and I was happy. I don’t think that I will strive for money or success and end up greedy or big-headed. That only leads to unhappiness. I can still be down-to-earth and do this job as long as I enjoy it.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
Movies in general are more generic. If something sells just make more. That's Hollywood.
Rob Zombie -
Conditions in the movie industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
No matter what you say about the town, and anything you say probably is true, there's never been another like it.
Hedda Hopper
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I lived in Hollywood and, ironically, I didn't know you could just go out and get an agent and go on auditions and try and become an actor, I thought it was like a Masonic thing, like a blood line you had to belong to – until I was 13. Then I realised what you had to do. It is the one thing I know I want to do for the rest of my life.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.
Elia Kazan -
I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun.
Alan Rickman -
I originally started off as a healer before I came to Hollywood.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa -
In Hollywood, we have some of the richest unemployed people in the world. They have sun tans. Some of them have chauffeurs in Rolls-Royces waiting outside. They have their golf clubs ready in the car. There is no law that says you cannot play golf while being unemployed.
Allan Sherman -
I'm just in work mode, and that prevents me from going into the Hollywood starlet mode, I suppose.
Scarlett Johansson
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If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
Bette Davis -
I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.
Etta James -
I've never been to a Hollywood party, although I imagine that it might be fun.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders -
Dune was really my first Hollywood job. It was such a small part, but I opened the movie. I was about 19 years old and I had to make this speech, and I didn't understand most of the words because they were, you know, words from Dune.
Virginia Madsen