Hollywood Quotes
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Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.
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I don't necessarily need Hollywood.
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It's a true testament to say that there are no small roles in Hollywood. People say, "Oh, I just said one line." or "I was walking in the background." Don't deny humble beginnings.
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They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.
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I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.
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Every time a Hollywood director shoots a film about Africa that features a Western protagonist, I shake my head - because Africans, real people though we may be, are used as props in the West's fantasy of itself.
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It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.
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I think Hollywood has seen what fandom can do for a project. You can definitely see that when you go to Comic-con.
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In 2011, I was in Hollywood peddling 'Sicario' to constant and resounding 'no's. Texas was suffering the worst drought on record. Wildfires spread across West Texas, burning some 4 million acres and 3,000 homes. While the urban centers in Texas were experiencing an economic boom, West Texas was collapsing under the weight of drought and fires.
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Alan Ladd was a marvelous person in his simplicity. In so many ways we were kindred spirits. We both were professionally conceived through Hollywood's search for box office and the types to insure the box office. And we were both little people. Alan wasn't as short as most people believe. It was true that in certain films Alan would climb a small platform or the girl worked in a slit trench. We had no such problems together.
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I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated.
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...In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.
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Hollywood has this incredible ability to make a lot of noise.
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As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.
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After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.
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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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It's strange to recall that America animated none of my youthful daydreams. I did not see a Hollywood film until my late teens.
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I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the '40s and '50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. That was fascinating to me growing up.
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If I can still have Hollywood and a piece of Bollywood, I will take it.
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I was raised in Hollywood by my mother.
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My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.
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Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle.
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I was obsessed with Hollywood from the time I was a kid. I always knew I wanted to live in Los Angeles.
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Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
