Hollywood Quotes
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I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.
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Hollywood's not knocking on our door. They're banging down the door with a sledgehammer.
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I've never been big on cars. When I first got to Hollywood, I bought a used car from Avis. I drove that until I almost had to pay someone to tow it away.
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I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.
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I don't crave Hollywood.
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I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.
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Three years is a lifetime in Hollywood. If your career starts slipping in L.A., you can really feel it. All of a sudden, the people that you were beating for a part start beating you.
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Hollywood is a roulette wheel. Each project dictates what's going to happen for you next, and it doesn't really matter that your project is critically acclaimed or won awards or has fans worldwide. It's a matter of how many movie tickets and DVDs and on-demand movies that you sell.
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I majored in theater at San Diego State. My one eye was on football, and my other eye was on Hollywood.
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When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.
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I don't necessarily need Hollywood.
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I never know what my next move will be in Hollywood. It's such an unpredictable town. People get jaded and lost and I've been able to stay a float. I think the next logical step in my career would be to start my own filmmaking empire like (Harvey Weinstein) and (Bob Weinstein) did so many years ago. I think if only the unions weren't so strict in Boston, I'd set up shop there and make films of a certain quality you don't see represented these days. I'm full of ideas and dreams.
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My muses were all the incredible, iconic women of glamour in Hollywood that I have worked with over 15 years. Anjelica Huston, Michelle Pfeiffer, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lena Dunham, Viola Davis, Rihanna, Demi Moore.
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Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
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Where you live matters: there's only one MIT. And there's only one Hollywood and only one Silicon Valley. This isn't a coincidence: for whatever you're doing, there's usually only one place where the top people go. You should go there. Don't settle for anywhere else. Meeting my heroes and learning from them gave me a huge advantage. Your heroes are part of your circle too - follow them.
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Unfortunately, in the race to the most douchebaggery, Silicon Valley is fast in gaining on Hollywood. That race is neck and neck.
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My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.
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Hollywood is wonderful, but it does eat its young.
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There's no doubt I was a bit of a misfit in the Hollywood of the forties. The race for glamour left me far behind. I didn't really want to keep up. I wanted my stardom without the usual trimmings. Because of this, I was branded a rebel at the very least. But I don't regret that for a minute. My appetite was my own and I simply wouldn't have it any other way.
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Dealing with Hollywood and commercial entertainment, you always have to worry that the political message is going to be skewed or obscured.
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The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me – from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood.
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L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press.
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Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.
