Hollywood Quotes
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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.
Ben Affleck
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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.
Larenz Tate
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It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman.
Saffron Burrows
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In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.
Ernst Lubitsch
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They thought I was crazy in Mexico when I said, 'I'm going to Hollywood.' Nobody thought I could make it.
Salma Hayek
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Hollywood, for me, is the studios. It's a way to produce. It's a different way to make movies, and I never took part in that.
Vincent Cassel
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I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.
Alistair Cooke
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They go on about banning size zero, but I think Hollywood stars are the worst perpetrators. Most models are naturally long and gangly, while a lot of these young girls in Hollywood have gone on extreme diets. Their concave chests and bony arms are terrifying. It's scary to think that normal teenagers are tempted to copy them.
Lesley Lawson
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I've pitched many things that have not gone, but every year, I'm in that pilot game like a lot of other writers in Hollywood.
Larry Wilmore
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I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.
Angelina Jolie
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I'm 27 years old. I'm going to go into Hollywood really arrogant. I'll be breaking a lot of rules. It's going to be hot.
Wyclef Jean Fugees
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What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and LOUSY.
Vicki Baum
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From last century's 'The Birth of a Nation' to this century's 'Gods and Generals,' Hollywood has likely done more than any other American institution to obstruct a truthful apprehension of the Civil War and, thus, modern America's very origins.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.
Sam Shepard
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[Mickey Mouse] He popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
Walt Disney
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I just think the David O. Selznick story is one of the great, epic stories of Hollywood history that nobody knows. Maybe one of the reasons why nobody knows it is because he wasn't a movie star.
Karina Longworth
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If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.
Anita Loos
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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.
Michael Douglas
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It sounds so dramatic, but I'll say it: Hollywood just doesn't know what to do with me. And it's not for lack of trying.
Parker Posey
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You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.
Richie Sambora Bon Jovi
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Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.
Patricia Heaton
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In Hollywood, there is another name for a woman's 40th birthday party, it's a retirement party.
Artie Lange
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I never thought Hollywood is the life I want to do. I thought acting is the life I want to do.
Shailene Woodley
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When I think about old Hollywood and the glamour of those days, women like Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn were not dressing the way some girls dress today. There was a certain mystery about them, and I feel like that's gone in our industry.
Aly Michalka Aly & AJ