Top 100 Quotes About Hollywood
#1. There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
Harry Anderson
#2. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's the wounded male ego. It's as though Hollywood thinks I've got some choice in whether I like him or not. As if. I can't change who I am.
Kirsty Eagar
#3. The stars have a strong effect on our daily shopping lives. Hollywood is astrology's only credible conspiracy.
Bauvard
#4. Hollywood is just a bunch of people going around in Learjets to other people asking them if they've got any money? Well, they might have if they didn't spend it all on jets.
John Cusack
#5. I wouldn't say Hollywood is anti-Republican, I certainly haven't experienced that.
Angie Harmon
#6. If movies and music are vehicles for emotionally "hooking" people into Hollywood worldviews, then the best countermeasure is to create more compelling, more beautiful forms of art that express a biblical worldview.
Nancy Pearcey
#7. I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hollywood.
David James Elliott
#8. Most people sitting at home aren't cool, successful, witty Hollywood stars, but they all worry about what people think of them when they faux pas.
Ricky Gervais
#9. The Jews control Hollywood and use it to promote their own agenda.
Marlon Brando
#10. I live in Italy part time, and they're obsessed with what's happening in LA too. They make fun of Americans, but the world wants to know what's going on in Hollywood.
Debi Mazar
#11. Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.
Liam Neeson
#12. It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.
Martin Henderson
#13. Just before I look under my bed, I always get a little cold feeling, as if part of me expects to find something staring back at me.
I've probably seen too many Hollywood movies to have any hopes of ever cultivating a healthy relationship with the underside of my bed.
Graham Parke
#14. I'm not going to say I'm a big girl. I'm a very small person, but I'm a healthy weight. That might be a little weird for Hollywood.
Zooey Deschanel
#15. What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English
SWELL and LOUSY.
Vicki Baum
#16. There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.
Fay Wray
#17. In Hollywood, they put the knife in your front; in D.C., they put it in your back. I found far fewer duplicitous people in Hollywood.
Jack Abramoff
#18. I shot a Metallica video in Hollywood, and there were, like, 100 people on set. There was even a guy there to put antiseptic gel on my hands. Amazing. If I asked for that on a Danish set, they'd probably kick me out of the country.
Thomas Vinterberg
#19. Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.
Gregory Harrison
#20. Hollywood is a very interesting place to deal with. And having been a theatre person, I was quite surprised by the slipperiness of some people in Holly-weird. There was a part of me that just said, 'If this is the way the game is played, I'm not sure I want to play it.'
Joyce DeWitt
#21. In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
Bill Condon
#22. I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to mean a movie that was financed outside corporate Hollywood, but a lot of what gets called independent these days is totally produced within that system. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#23. Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood's most powerful agency.
Don Yaeger
#24. Hollywood has glorified adult premarital sex, and that is unhelpful if your goal is to reduce teen pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births.
Joe Lieberman
#25. Ever since I arrived in America to promote "Stoker," I haven't had time to go and see it in a theater. The fact that I had to shoot twice as fast as I'm used to in Korea was the most challenging thing about my Hollywood experience.
Park Chan-wook
#26. Uh, I feel like there's a Jessica Jones tip somewhere in here about Hollywood and using looks and fame and skintight costume to your advantage or something, buuuuut I'm just gonna skip it.
Kelly Thompson
#27. Musical chairs or Russian roulette? Sometimes there's as much tense drama in the casting of a Hollywood movie as there is in the finished product.
Richard Corliss
#28. I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.
Tadashi Shoji
#29. I don't really know Hollywood, and I think that L.A. needs a bit of time to really know the city, because it's such a huge city.
Audrey Tautou
#30. I'm happy with the way I look but I'm not Hollywood beautiful.
Joanne Froggatt
#31. Filmmakers, they tell me they want to make movies. I say, 'Good, go out, buy a $500 camera, get some friends and make a movie. Don't go to Hollywood. Stay wherever you are.'
Alan Arkin
#32. I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that.
Armand Assante
#33. If a young woman is looking at the landscape of Hollywood, what she sees is almost only challenges.
Lena Dunham
#34. I do find it odd people choose to do stuff that makes them look like crazy Hollywood faces, but I've got zero judgment.
Julie Bowen
#35. For actors in Hollywood, it's very straightforward. We're well-paid animals in a zoo.
Robin Wright
#36. Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood.
George Lucas
#37. In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.
Ethan Hawke
#38. I live right under the Hollywood sign, so that every day when I drive home I'm reminded of why I'm here.
Alessandro Nivola
#39. People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.
Rashida Jones
#40. I always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings.
Joe Eszterhas
#41. 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.
Lamorne Morris
#42. My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.
Gad Elmaleh
#43. It would be far to general a statement to try and describe the daily life of an actor in Hollywood, but I am quite certain that cappucinos have something to do with it.
Corin Nemec
#45. There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.
Eva Gabor
#46. If you do not have the innate ability to seek out someone's work on your own, and you have to wait for Hollywood to do it for you, then you are some sort of hillside grazer of culture; you are a sheep, a cow, what is biologically classified as a ruminant ... Fuck you.
Rich Hall
#47. Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.
Ziyi Zhang
#48. The Hollywood love always stays in the Hollywood; it never comes home, unless you bring the Hollywood home.
M.F. Moonzajer
#49. I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you.
Andre Benjamin
#50. Live your life, experience something, and then you're going to have a lot of things to say. But if you hang around in Hollywood, then you're going to say the same thing as everyone else - nothing.
Luc Besson
#51. The difference between extras and audience members is that audience members don't get chairs. Audience members are the daylaborers of the industry. When it's sunny, we stand in the sun. When it's cold, we stand in the cold.
J. Richard Singleton
#52. I know I tackled something big, new, and scary and I survived.
Jen Calonita
#53. When the script for 'The Wrestler' kept coming to me I said, This movie is so good if you put me in the film as a wrestler people are going to say, 'No credibility, Hulk Hogan isn't a good actor,' whatever Hollywood thinks of me.
Hulk Hogan
#54. And if Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that cool props and special effects are not enough. Story comes first. Everything depends on story.
Patrick Rothfuss
#55. Hollywood can be a draining industry. For all the glitz and glory and wonderful parts of our business, it takes it's toll on your inner self.
Amber Heard
#56. There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
Rachel Weisz
#57. There is that great thing of D.C. being Hollywood for ugly people. There's very distinct crossover behaviors.
Timothy Simons
#58. I think Hollywood has always, you know, there's always been glamour associated to it. And especially in the last ten years there has been a growing sort of obsession with celebrity life and celebrity culture.
Debra Messing
#59. Most, especially the young filmmakers, do not see strength in communal or collective existence. They just think they're going to conquer the world as individuals. There is no world like that. In cinema it's always, even in Hollywood, a collective surge.
Haile Gerima
#60. That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.
Jennifer Tilly
#61. Angie Dickinson in 'Hollywood Wives' took me under her wing. If you look at that cast, I was definitely an 'outcast' ... so to speak. Most of them were of the same era, or just so much more experienced that I was.
Catherine Mary Stewart
#62. It takes time for brown people and people of different ethnicities to get into the Hollywood world, which is predominantly Caucasian and African American.
Utkarsh Ambudkar
#63. So much of the world is being brought up on these stories that Hollywood is coming up with and exporting all over. They have so much power and influence, so it's really important that they represent women properly.
Brit Marling
#64. I look to the women who epitomize old Hollywood glamour, like Rita Hayworth. She had a way of making sophisticated clothes look sexy without ever seeming sleazy or cheap.
Jennifer Lopez
#65. The war for the Internet has begun. Hollywood is in control of politics. The government is killing innovation.
Kim Dotcom
#66. When I came out to Hollywood, I was a crazy young kid who didn't have a lot of direction.
Scott Haze
#67. I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter.
Julie Harris
#68. I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
Gary Oldman
#70. North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley ... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.
Elizabeth McGovern
#71. I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.
Francesca Annis
#72. We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.
Yahoo Serious
#74. The 1930s Hollywood was capable of hurting me so much. The things about Hollywood that could hurt me (when I first came) can't touch me now. I suddenly decided that they shouldn't hurt me - that was all.
Joan Crawford
#75. When you're in Hollywood, you get sort of jaded about what you think the sense of humor of Hollywood is supposed to be, so you can't think outside the box.
Diedrich Bader
#76. Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.
Bruce Willis
#77. Hollywood. It lacks originality. Remake sucks.' But I had to look deeper into it from my own perspective. We are not trying to compete with the original at all and that's what allowed me to pull the trigger without any hesitancy .
Colin Farrell
#79. I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.
Ned Beatty
#80. This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I had a great conceit to think that if all else failed I could always go to Hollywood. So when all else did fail I really went to Hollywood. And then I found out how wrong I was.
David Niven
#81. Let's be honest, I don't think anyone ever wants to settle down in Hollywood - it's a place you go to work. And once you've hit it, you get out of there as soon as you can. It's definitely not a place you want to get married and have kids.
Sophie Monk
#83. If this were a [Hollywood] studio film, I wouldn't have pushed my father into a table, I would have beat him up. My father wouldn't have kissed my girlfriend; he would have raped her.
Noah Wyle
#84. Don't ever humiliate a man. If you're gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do it that way. That's the one thing I don't like about Hollywood: They go in for public humiliation. You shouldn't do that to a man.
Rip Torn
#85. It's a corset design making me look very, very slim and trim. I call it a corset dress. Very Hollywood glamour with the silk.
Serena Williams
#86. Hollywood is a place of great irony at all times.
Mark Canton
#87. You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense.
John C. Reilly
#88. I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.
George R R Martin
#89. Hollywood ... that's not going to be my niche at all. If anyone is going wants to work with me, I would think it's going to be independent films. I'm not 22!
Lesley Manville
#90. I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! And I was crazy for the Hollywood of the 1950s: Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones. They were my idea of glamour - and Sylvie Vartan, the French singer.
Christian Louboutin
#91. For me, I've never been too concerned of what people think of me, so now as the youngest Baldwin brother in Hollywood making movies while simultaneously being a charismatic evangelical born again Christian who's an evangelist - that's a pretty crazy combination.
Stephen Baldwin
#92. I had to go to Hollywood to recharge my career.
Sean Bean
#93. I like to break down barriers and I think that Hollywood is doing the same thing over and over. I want to do something new and say, "Let's evolve as artists!"
Gina Carano
#94. Hollywood likes to put out their own message out a lot of times, and that message isn't the best one for everyone.
Kevin Sorbo
#95. Hollywood is a deeply odd place. There are so many factors that have to go perfectly, so many schedules and visions that have to snap together for a film even to be made, much less be good.
Marcus Sakey
#96. I don't live in Hollywood. I don't have celebrities as friends. I like them, but I don't pal around with them. I just live in the Midwest, a real normal world.
Jerry Springer
#97. I came out to California to live with my mom in Orange County for a while, and then I came up to Hollywood. I had just turned nineteen. I took an acting class at Playhouse West and decided, 'Wow, I think I can do this!' I studied really hard for three years before I got an agent.
Jamie Anne Allman
#98. I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it.
Sherilyn Fenn
#99. To be honest, I probably wouldn't have gone to Hollywood if I hadn't been offered 'Ugly Betty' because I was a wee bit feart. But you have to make yourself frightened. That's what keeps you alive.
Ashley Jensen
#100. A couple of years after I arrived in Hollywood, everything that was Latino was fashionable, and years after, my thought is that we're not fashionable anymore. We're here to stay.
Antonio Banderas
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