Hollywood Quotes

• So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again. Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • Time
  • Baby

• There are a lot of powerful women in Hollywood who have been movie stars for a long time who are getting into their forties and fifties. I still want to see them work.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• I don't think the idea of working in Hollywood really exists anymore. I think you work in films, and where the film is shot is where it's shot. The studio system doesn't really exist.

  

  Rupert Friend
  • Ideas
  • Film
  • Shots

• If you had asked me when I was in Yale, I would tell you I never would have thought it would happen because I just didn't think of myself of having the Hollywood look.

  

  Michael Potts
  • Myself
  • Thought
  • Happen

• I also read about Heathcliff's unexpected three-year career in Hollywood under the name Buck Stallion and his eventual return to the pages of Wuthering Heights.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Career
  • Return
  • Pages

• 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.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • Hollywood
  • Bones

• When you do stuff as a comedian, Hollywood sees you as a comedian and so most of the calls I get are for a funny movie or something like that.

  

  Cedric the Entertainer
  • Movie
  • Funny
  • Comedian

• To get on in Hollywood, you've gotta be a bit gay and a bit Jewish, and I'm saving up to be Jewish.

  

  Vinnie Jones
  • Gay
  • Bits
  • Saving

• It's a corset design making me look very, very slim and trim. I call it a corset dress. Very Hollywood glamour with the silk.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Design
  • Dresses
  • Glamour

• Because I didn't go to film school, I had a collection of books that were inspiring or taught me how to make movies, shorts with my friends back in Brooklyn, and one of those books was How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime which is Roger's autobiography. After reading that, I realized that oh my God, this guy is behind all my favorite Pam Grier movies. Oh my God, he made the Vincent Price Poe films that ran on television when I was little. He did Grand Theft Auto. He made Death Race 2000.

  

  Alex Stapleton
  • Friends
  • Books
  • Autobiography

• There's a reason why every successful person in Hollywood has like seven or eight projects up in the air at any point. It's like a 90 percent chance for each project that it'll never happen. Every project has about a 10 percent chance of getting made, unless you're like a Quentin Tarantino or somebody who just gets whatever they want to get done. But those are the rare cases.

  

  Ed Brubaker
  • Reason
  • Chance
  • Projects

• Fox bought the rights to the book way back when, and there was this attempt by Fox to make a movie out of 'The Hot Zone,' and it tended tragically in a Hollywood disaster involving Robert Redford and Jodie Foster and Ridley Scott. But the rights have been sitting at Fox ever since.

  

  Richard Preston
  • Attempt
  • Involving
  • Robert

• I'm not this big Hollywood mainstream actress, but who cares? I think I just have a certain sensibility for smaller projects. I like intimate things. I think I do well in that kind of environment. That doesn't mean that I wouldn't love to do bigger projects. I feel everyone has their own journey.

  

  Melonie Diaz
  • Environment
  • Certain
  • Everyone

• Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Country
  • Church
  • Circus

• For the most part, Hollywood is very transactional. People want to make movies and television shows.

  

  Michael Lynton
  • People
  • Television
  • Shows

• So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Media

• Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.

  

  Claude Lelouch
  • Entertainment
  • Cinema
  • Fulfills

• As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called 'a little crazy'. And now I guess I'm still that way.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Crazy

• I think being a woman in Hollywood is a big enough challenge. It really is. I don't want to be one of those people who complain. But the lack of roles out there - it's unbelievable.

  

  Eva Mendes
  • Challenge
  • Roles
  • Being A Woman

• The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • Die
  • Hollywood
  • Discrimination

• I want to be able to work on a project that will give people around the world the chance to represent their own people, their own culture, their own stories, rather than just Hollywood - really, you know, dominated Hollywood. And that's a dream of mine.

  

  Steven Seagal
  • Hollywood
  • Project
  • Represent

• Euthanasia is legal in Hollywood. They just kill the film if it doesn't succeed immediately.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Film
  • Kill
  • Euthanasia

• When Shana Alexander interviewed me for Life magazine in 1952, she gave up after 4,000. At one time or another, I've worked for every studio in Hollywood, for almost every director with most of the actors and actresses.

  

  David Sharp
  • Director
  • Worked
  • Actresses

• Friends come in herds and they leave in herds. Hollywood loves an adventure, but you have to hit bottom. Then they love to save you and be a part of it. Or think they're a part of it.

  

  Burt Reynolds
  • Friends
  • Adventure
  • Herds

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