Hollywood Quotes
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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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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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I had this job at Hollywood Video, and during my worst audition ever, I forgot all of my lines in front of Chuck Lorre at the callback for the 'Mike and Molly' pilot.
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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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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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New Mexico is the second Hollywood. No, it is, it is. They built all sorts of film studios.
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I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's in. So you just think that it's Hollywood stuff or whatever.
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Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle.
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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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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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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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I like the action business. I like the action movies. I guess Hollywood wants to see me do action. So I am down. I like it.
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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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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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Hollywood used to control the distribution; now Silicon Valley does.
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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 grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
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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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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.
