Hollywood Quotes
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No matter what you say about the town, and anything you say probably is true, there's never been another like it.
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New Mexico is the second Hollywood. No, it is, it is. They built all sorts of film studios.
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If I go to Hollywood, I will have to start all over again – which is fine and makes me humble.
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I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care.
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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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But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it.
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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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Hollywood is a goofy place. But I like it.... If one weren't a little mad one wouldn't be there.
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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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Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make that any man anywhere.
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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.
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Sam Jackson is like the Jeezy of Hollywood: He's for his people.
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Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.
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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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I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.
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You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.
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Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.
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Hollywood used to control the distribution; now Silicon Valley does.
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Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle.
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Hollywood typecast me as the secretary. I could have worked as the quirky secretary for the rest of my life, but I decided not to do that.
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When I moved to Los Angeles, I was cooking with two guys who became celebrity chefs, if you will. I became their sous chef for awhile. We'd go to all the big names in Hollywood.
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I recognize that Hollywood is not about seniority. Often it's not even a meritocracy. It's about what you did yesterday. You have a couple of misses, and suddenly it's impossible to find a hit. So the swings are gigantic. But I've always understood it as such, and navigated it as such.
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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.
