Hollywood Quotes:

By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.

- A. Scott Berg

topic: Men, Hollywood, Serious, Serious Man

A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard.

- Aaron Eckhart

topic: Sex, Stars, Hollywood, Boulevard

Thank you, Hollywood, for allowing me to be part of your group.

- Aaron Paul

topic: Thank You, Hollywood, Groups

I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.

- Abbie Cornish

topic: Hollywood, Body, Actresses

I feel like Hollywood is a big high school again. Seriously, Ashton Kutcher is the prom king.

- Adam Brody

topic: Kings, School, Hollywood

If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.

- Adam Carolla

topic: People, Hollywood, Needs

I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care.

- Adam Carolla

topic: Hollywood, Connections, Care

Everyone in Hollywood thinks like a Republican fiscally by leaving town to shoot everything; they just don't vote that way.

- Adam Carolla

topic: Thinking, Leaving, Hollywood

I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz. I grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.

- Adam Shankman

topic: Beach, Hollywood, Grew Up

My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

- Adrian Grenier

topic: Ambition, Hollywood, Pay

Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don't think of them as disabled. You amputate part of a nose, that's 'enhancement'. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that's 'augmentation'. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it's 'disability'?

- Aimee Mullins

topic: Thinking, Hollywood, Noses, Enhancement, Prosthetics

There's always the standard six people you can hire that have played all these villains in Hollywood. Instinctively, when they come on screen, you know what's going to happen. You don't know the story, but you know what they do.

- Albert Brooks

topic: People, Hollywood, Stories

What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing.

- Alejandro Amenabar

topic: Mean, People, Hollywood, Mean People

In Hollywood you always feel a bit like a hake. The publicists march people up and down in front of you and they interview you... You feel like the turbot and the sea-bream go by, and you're the hake.

- Alejandro Amenabar

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sea, People, Hollywood

Don't make your living with cinema because Hollywood will take you, will eat you, will destroy you. This is the reality. You have a good picture, have success, you take the person and they destroy you.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

topic: Reality, Hollywood, Cinema

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

topic: Home, Hollywood

Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.

- Alex Cox

topic: Careers, Hollywood, Negative, Pickups

I don't think about Hollywood at all.

- Alex Cox

topic: Thinking, Hollywood

Hollywood is owned by the Arabs.

- Alex Jones

topic: Hollywood

And I got a lot of friends in Hollywood.

- Alex Jones

topic: Hollywood, Lots Of Friends

Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is.

- Alex Kingston

topic: Shadow, Hollywood, Invisible

Michael Moore didn't have to worry that anyone would misinterpret the title of his film, 'Capitalism: A Love Story,' because in Hollywood, no one loves capitalism. That's too bad, because Hollywood is one of capitalism's greatest successes.

- Alex Tabarrok

topic: Worry, Hollywood, Titles

Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production.

- Alex Tabarrok

source: "Capitalism: Hollywood's Miscast Villain". www.wsj.com. June 04, 2010.

topic: People, Hollywood, Ordinary, Pursuit Of Wealth

Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.

- Alexander Payne

topic: Trying, Hollywood, Cinema, Really True

I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - 'I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!

- Alexander Skarsgard

topic: Stars, Children, Hollywood

I'm a big fan of glamour. It's something I don't think there's enough of in Hollywood anymore. I enjoy putting on a sexy dress and heels. I want to work it.

- Ali Larter

topic: Sexy, Thinking, Hollywood

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

- Alistair Cooke

topic: Greek, Hollywood, Factories, Flourishing

In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.

- Allan Sherman

source: Allan Sherman (1965). “A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman”

topic: Hollywood, World, Colony, Leper

Unfortunately, many talented people in Hollywood find their values and politics do not reflect the content they create, and many movie themes are in direct contrast with over half of todays American families.

- Allen Covert

source: "Digital media company Cherry Tree makes patriotic books for kids" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. March 2, 2012.

topic: People, Hollywood, Half, American Family

Most Hollywood men are too vain and shallow for me.

- Alley Mills

topic: Men, Hollywood, Vain

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

- Ally Sheedy

source: "Wheeler W. Dixon The Second Century of Cinema: The Past and Future of the Moving Image". Book by Wheeler Winston Dixon, February 28, 2000.

topic: Hollywood, Definitions, Discrimination

I loved living in Hollywood - and the weather there was just fantastic - but there is something about rural England, and especially Suffolk and Norfolk, that pulls at my heartstrings.

- Amanda Donohoe

topic: Weather, Hollywood, England, Norfolk, Heart Strings

I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - Ill devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is Sunset Boulevard starring Gloria Swanson.

- Amanda Donohoe

topic: Sunset, Hollywood, Watches, Old Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard

Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I'd say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood.

- Amitabh Bachchan

topic: Emotional, Singing, Hollywood, Format

You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films.

- Amitabh Bachchan

topic: Acting, Hollywood, Stories, Hollywood Films

Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.

- Amy Heckerling

source: Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. March 20, 2008.

topic: Dream, Hollywood, Factories, Older Women

In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure ...

- Amy Vanderbilt

source: Amy Vanderbilt (1963). “Amy Vanderbilt's New Complete Book of Etiquette: The Guide to Gracious Living”

topic: Hollywood, Analysts, Admission

Hollywood is a mirage factory ...

- Anais Nin

topic: Hollywood, Mirages, Factories

My life in Montana is so diverse from my Hollywood life that it even feels odd for me to go from one life to the other.

- Andie MacDowell

topic: Hollywood, Montana, Odd, Hollywood Life

Well, executive producer can mean anything in the world of Hollywood, sadly. It can be a bought title in many instances.

- Andrew Stanton

topic: Mean, Hollywood, Titles

Occasional observers of horror movies have a nasty habit of asking why it is that there is always some poor misguided soul who opens the door to the cellar or to the attic or to the crypt when it's quite clear that no sane person would even consider it.

- Andrew Tudor

topic: Doors, Soul, Hollywood, Asking Why

Contemporary audiences, other than those making a deliberate historical leap, would find, say, the 1931 'Dracula' impossibly slow.

- Andrew Tudor

topic: Historical, Hollywood, Film

In a Western or a thriller there is often room for reflection upon the coercive necessities; even, occasionally, some attempt to pose other possibilities. In the horror movies there is finally a Hobbesian state of nature: 'continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'.

- Andrew Tudor

topic: Reflection, Men, Hollywood, Violent Death

In 'Play Misty For Me', its inexplicably assertive knife-woman nearly manages the impossible task of slaughtering Clint Eastwood.

- Andrew Tudor

topic: Knives, Play, Hollywood

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

- Andy Warhol

topic: Beautiful, Artist, Hollywood, Commercial Art

I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, 'Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?'

- Ang Lee

topic: Years, Hollywood, Oscars

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

- Angela Carter

topic: Dream, Hollywood, United States, Mass Production

Louis B. Mayer and I got along like a house afire. He never chased me around his desk or tried anything with me. Of course, he never gave me any good parts, either.

- Angela Lansbury

topic: House, Hollywood, Desks, Mayer

The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.

- Anita Diament

topic: Real, Hollywood, Puff, Cream Puffs

If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.

- Anita Loos

topic: Hollywood

Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.

- Ann Beattie

topic: Thinking, Tea, Hollywood

Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.

- Anna Faris

topic: Males, Hollywood, Female, Hollywood Studios

I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star.

- Anna May Wong

topic: Stars, Hollywood, May, Hollywood Stars

I don't look like Catherine Zeta-Jones, so I don't think Hollywood would be that interested in me, to be honest. I just want nice work.

- Anne-Marie Duff

topic: Nice, Thinking, Hollywood, Zeta, Nice Work

In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

- Annette Funicello

topic: Birthday, Stars, Hollywood

The great thing about it is, in Hollywood, certain people are very good at keeping their lives and who they are very private. I've never met anybody as down to earth and cool in Hollywood than Matt Damon.

- Anthony Mackie

topic: People, Hollywood, Earth, Damon

No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.

- Anthony Minghella

source: "Anthony Minghella: Truly, madly, deeply missed" by Stephanie Busari, www.cnn.com. March 21, 2008.

topic: Ambitious, Mountain, Hollywood, Movie Making, Cold Mountain

I don't hang out at trendy Hollywood bars.

- Anton Yelchin

topic: Hollywood, Bars, Trendy

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

topic: Couple, Years, Hollywood

Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is.

- Antonio Banderas

topic: Strong, Hollywood, Female

All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique - that's not working any more.

- Anurag Kashyap

source: "Anurag Kashyap: Bollywood is to blame for India's inability to deal with reality". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2013.

topic: Pseudo, Hollywood, Looking Good, Movie Sets, Physique

I have always let the lack of Indian actors in the industry drive me, not hold me back. I remember an agent in L.A. telling me a few years ago that an Indian actor wouldn't ever make it in Hollywood, but my ethnicity has helped me.

- Archie Panjabi

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Ethnicity, Years, Hollywood

I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago

- Armand Assante

topic: Long, Hollywood

I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that

- Armand Assante

topic: Hollywood, Film, Enough, Banging

Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading dead zone of exhaustion, inertia, and brilliant decay.

- Arthur Kroker

source: Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker, David Cook (1989). “Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene”

topic: Space, Black, Hollywood, Dead Zone

I still giggle when someone asks for my address and I say, Hollywood, Los Angeles.

- Ashley Jensen

topic: Hollywood, Addresses, Los Angeles

I'm not someone who likes to be in the whole Hollywood tabloids.

- Ashley Tisdale

topic: Hollywood, Tabloids, Likes

I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there.

- Audrey Tautou

topic: Desire, Hollywood

Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino.

- Ava DuVernay

topic: Sweet, Directors, Hollywood, Vino

I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood

- Ava Gardner

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sunrise, Hollywood, Actresses

Hollywood - that's a place where love is viewed both pragmatically and philosophically in the saying, 'Tis better to have loved and divorced than never to have had any publicity at all.

- Ava Gardner

topic: Love Is, Publicity, Hollywood

I have my own style that happens to be different from everyone else in Hollywood. My inspiration is me.

- Avril Lavigne

topic: Inspiration, Style, Hollywood, My Own Style

English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.

- Bai Ling

topic: Thinking, Hong Kong, Hollywood

I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.

- Barbra Streisand

topic: Names, History, Hollywood

Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.

- Barry Diller

topic: Children, Community, Hollywood, Inbreds

I hold, as an article of faith, that the worth of an organisation can be accurately measured as the reciprocal of how many Hollywood beautiful people it attracts. It has never failed me yet.

- Barry Williams

topic: Beautiful, People, Hollywood, Beautiful People

There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.

- Baz Luhrmann

topic: Directors, Hollywood, Speak

We are increasingly offered a diet [by Hollywood] in which sensation, not story, is king.

- Beeban Kidron

topic: Kings, Hollywood, Stories

Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed. Bela Lugosi.

- Bela Lugosi

topic: Hollywood, Amusement, Type

If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible.

- Ben Affleck

topic: Depressing, Thinking, Hollywood, Really Depressing

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.

- Ben Hecht

topic: Sports, Brain, Hollywood

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

- Ben Hecht

topic: Honor, Dubious, Hollywood, Tissue Paper

In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.

- Ben Hecht

source: "Colombo's Hollywood: wit and wisdom of the moviemakers". Book by John Robert Colombo, p. 150, 1979.

topic: Names, Hollywood, Thirty, Starlets, Brothels

It's Sir Ben. I've not been a Mister for two years.

- Ben Kingsley

topic: Years, Two, Hollywood

There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.

- Ben Stiller

source: FaceBook post by Ben Stiller from Dec 02, 2012

topic: Hollywood, Use, Film, Old Saying

For us, as actors, and even for the director, it gave us a sense of authenticity to what we were doing because we were talking about Hollywood and we were in Hollywood

- Berenice Bejo

source: "Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 23, 2011.

topic: Talking, Directors, Hollywood

If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.

- Bernardo Bertolucci

topic: New York, Apples, Hollywood

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

- Bernardo Bertolucci

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Democracy, Trying, Hollywood, Monoculture

I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.

- Bernardo Bertolucci

topic: Thinking, Hollywood, Phases

I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe the world.

- Bernie Mac

topic: Men, Hollywood, Stories

There's a danger in Hollywood of becoming self-obsessed.

- Beth Broderick

topic: Self, Hollywood, Becoming, Self Obsessed

I like showing moms what it's really like having a baby, and how it's not Hollywood life.

- Bethenny Frankel

topic: Mom, Baby, Hollywood, Having A Baby, Hollywood Life

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

- Bette Davis

topic: Reality, Hollywood, Realism

There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.

- Bette Davis

topic: Party, Acting, Hollywood, Good Acting

In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.

- Bill Condon

topic: Black, Hollywood, Maids, Housekeepers

That's not how most of Hollywood does it-which helps to explain why Pixar does so well. How are you changing the game in your field? What is your distinctive take on how your industry operates? Do you work as distinctively as you compete?

- Bill Taylor

topic: Education, Games, Hollywood, Distinctive

When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television.

- Billy Campbell

topic: Dream, Escaping, Hollywood

A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone's scared to take a chance. There's money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.

- Billy Eichner

topic: Careers, People, Hollywood, Fear No One

So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again. Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.

- Billy Joel

source: Song: Say Goodbye To Hollywood, Album: Turnstiles, 1976

topic: Goodbye, Baby, Hollywood, Many Faces

Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.

- Billy Wilder

topic: Hollywood, Killing

Before Michael Caine you had to have been in the RAF to be an actor.

- Bob Hoskins

topic: Raf, Hollywood, Actors

I just want choices. Its not about making money and having a lot of friends in Hollywood; thats the last thing I want.

- Bojana Novakovic

topic: Choices, Hollywood, Lots Of Friends

Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.

- Bonnie Hunt

source: Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Hollywood, Care, Company

Jackass millionaires, hey, hey, Hollywood, here we come.

- Brad Paisley

topic: Art, Media, Hollywood

When I first got out to Hollywood, they were pushing me for sitcoms, and I didn't really have an interest in them. I wanted to do films and slowly worked that way. And then it became, I guess, this curse of the leading man.

- Brad Pitt

topic: Men, Hollywood, Way

You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything

- Bradley Whitford

topic: Hollywood, Want, Idiot

Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

- Brent Spiner

topic: Hollywood, Stories, Facts

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

- Bret Easton Ellis

topic: Hollywood, Stories, Levels, Harsh Words

After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there's no better place for new ideas than comics.

- Brian K. Vaughan

source: "SDCC: Brian K. Vaughan is 'Living His Life 22 Pages at a Time'" by Casey Gilly, www.cbr.com. August 02, 2014.

topic: Years, Ideas, Hollywood

Hollywood is a land of self-invention.

- Brian Koppelman

topic: Self, Land, Hollywood

I don't even take myself seriously, so how could I possibly take Hollywood seriously?

- Brittany Murphy

topic: Hollywood, Brittany

I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.

- Brittany Murphy

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Taken, Thinking, Hollywood, Dear Lord

I never did love Hollywood, I just loved the work.

- Bronson Pinchot

source: "'Balki' No More, Actor Bronson Pinchot Indulges Home Restoration Passion, Has 'Perfect Strangers' Reunion Wish" by Kelly Hagan, abcnews.go.com. March 15, 2012.

topic: Hollywood

For a long time I was embarrassed to say I was a 'B' movie actor, ... But now that I see what Hollywood's putting out, I realized 'B' actually means 'better.'

- Bruce Campbell

topic: Mean, Long, Hollywood, Movie Actors

There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.

- Bruce Campbell

topic: Years, Ideas, Hollywood

If you go to Hollywood, you've already sold out.

- Bruce Campbell

topic: Hollywood

Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.

- Bruce Davison

topic: Hollywood, Use

It's very difficult to get your ideas to Hollywood if you're the average Joe or Jane. An agent wouldn't bother with you.

- Bruce Nash

topic: Average, Ideas, Hollywood, Average Joe

I'm always being accused of being a Hollywood Republican, but I'm not! I have just as many Democratic ideas as Republican ones. If they could build three fewer bombs every month and give the money to foster care, that would be great.

- Bruce Willis

topic: Ideas, Giving, Hollywood, Being Accused, Foster Care

I've been in love with the cinema since childhood and it's a fantasy of mine to appear in a Hollywood movie.

- Bruno Tonioli

topic: Childhood, Hollywood, Cinema, Hollywood Movies

Hollywood has known this for quite a while: Cable is the place to go because they truly have a supportive network and they want to do things that cannot be seen on broadcast. That stimulates the writer-producer. Cable is king.

- Bryan Cranston

topic: Kings, Supportive, Hollywood

Silence is the sure sign that youre on your way out in Hollywood.

- Budd Schulberg

topic: Silence, Hollywood, Way

Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946

- Burt Lancaster

topic: Men, Hollywood, Young

There are no awards in Hollywood for being an idiot.

- Burt Reynolds

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Awards, Hollywood, Idiot

Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

- C. S. Forester

topic: Hollywood, England, Emotion, Starks

Every year you work in Hollywood takes a year off your soul.

- Calista Flockhart

topic: Years, Soul, Hollywood

Harrison Ford is absolutely amazing. He is a Hollywood icon, and just to work with him was absolutely incredible.

- Carly Schroeder

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Icons, Hollywood, Incredibles

I did get offers from Hollywood, but they were all scripts with monsters in them. If I had done them, I would have disappeared. I would have come back to France anyway, and I would have had to start all over again and lost a lot of time.

- Carole Bouquet

topic: Monsters, Hollywood, Done

People talk about the golden age of Hollywood because of how women were lit then. You could be Joan Crawford and Bette Davis and work well into your 50s, because you were lit and made into a goddess. Now, with everything being sort of gritty, women have this sense of their use-by date.

- Cate Blanchett

topic: People, Age, Hollywood

It was mostly an aura about him (Gene Kelly). For me he was Hollywood. The way I'd imagined it as a child.

- Catherine Deneuve

topic: Children, Hollywood, Auras

In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly

- Catherine Zeta-Jones

topic: Hollywood, World, Around The World

Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse.

- Cesar Romero

topic: Hollywood, World, Towns

Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.

- Cesar Romero

topic: Fake People, Important, Hollywood, Being Sincere

I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow.

- Channing Tatum

topic: Soldier, Hollywood, Looks, Infatuated

Hollywood is a goofy place. But I like it.... If one weren't a little mad one wouldn't be there.

- Charles Laughton

topic: Mad, Hollywood, Littles

Doing a picture with Willie Wyler is like getting the works at a Turkish bath. You damn near drown, but you come out smelling like a rose.

- Charlton Heston

topic: Rose, Hollywood, Baths, Turkish

Being a Chicano in Hollywood, my experience is that you're not given credit for any sophistication... You're just kind of some guy that just crossed the border, you know, on the back of a truck and that's it.

- Cheech Marin

topic: Guy, Hollywood, Borders

In Hollywood, you can't say anything bad about anybody or everyone is going to attack you.

- Chloe Sevigny

topic: Say Anything, Hollywood

When I was younger, I was really anti-Hollywood. Now I'm more accepting of it because I'm less of a snob.

- Chloe Sevigny

topic: Hollywood, Accepting, Snob

In a way, the web is like your Hollywood agent: It speaks for you whenever you are not around to comment

- Chris Brogan

topic: Marketing, Hollywood, Agents

In Hollywood, what they last saw you in is what you are. It's hard to break away from that

- Chris Kattan

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Hollywood, Lasts, Saws

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies

- Chris Kattan

source: Interview with Vicki Hogarth, www.askmen.com.

topic: Reality, Escaping, Hollywood

When I started in the late nineties, it was all about young Hollywood. There were jobs for all of us if you were 18 to 21, were slightly good looking, or could be funny.

- Chris Klein

topic: Jobs, Hollywood, Looking Good

There's a certain thought process about actors that they are in Hollywood and they sit around pools and get suntans and just get offered jobs.

- Chris Klein

source: "Chris Klein, ‘American Reunion’ Star, On Being Left Out Of ‘American Wedding’ And Life After His ‘Mamma Mia’ Audition". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2012.

topic: Jobs, Hollywood, Actors, Thought Process

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

- Chris Kyle

topic: War, Hollywood, Looks, Good War

I've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own show.

- Chris Lilley

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Hbo, Names, Hollywood, Hollywood Films

I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.

- Chris Noth

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Hollywood, Stories, Actors

I'm sure I can't relate to what females go through in Hollywood, but I do know what it feels like to eat emotionally. To be sad and make yourself happy with food, and then be almost immediately sad again, and then ashamed. Then, you try to hide those feelings with more food.

- Chris Pratt

topic: Feelings, Trying, Hollywood, Make Yourself Happy

As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.

- Christian Marclay

topic: Artist, Talking, Hollywood

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it

- Christian Slater

topic: Thinking, Hollywood, May

If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic

- Christine Baranski

topic: Creating, People, Hollywood, Hollywood Movies

Each time I get off a plane in Hollywood, I don't think I'm pretty enough.

- Christine Lahti

topic: Thinking, Hollywood, Enough

I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.

- Christopher Atkins

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Ghouls, Vampire, Hollywood, Vampire Movie

Hollywood wants press, any kind of press.

- Christopher Atkins

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Hollywood, Want, Kind

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.

- Christopher Dawson

topic: Hero, Long, Hollywood

I haven't always been warmly welcomed for holding my conservative positions in Hollywood. Then again, I've never been very good at being politically correct either, on or off screen. So why start now?

- Chuck Norris

topic: Hollywood, Conservative, Very Good

I never make a distinction between doing a film in Hollywood or doing a film independently. It's just the story. It's always the story for me. The constants are that it should challenge me and I shouldn't repeat myself. And the story should always be a story worth telling.

- Cillian Murphy

topic: Challenges, Hollywood, Stories

Two weeks ago we couldn't pronounce your name, but you were in the lead in a film that made millions, so we're sending you all these scripts.

- Cillian Murphy

topic: Names, Two, Hollywood, Two Weeks

Hollywood has lost an enormous amount of quality.

- Claire Trevor

topic: Quality, Hollywood, Lost

I don't know what they call Hollywood anymore. The whole meaning of the town has changed.

- Claire Trevor

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Hollywood, Towns, Changed

I'm a curiosity in Hollywood. I'm a big freak, because I'm myself!

- Clara Bow

topic: Curiosity, Hollywood, Freak

They yell at me to be dignified. But what are the dignified people like? The people who are held up as examples of me? They are snobs. Frightful snobs  I'm a curiosity in Hollywood. I'm a big freak, because I'm myself!

- Clara Bow

topic: People, Curiosity, Hollywood

Hollywood to me is a place to work. Home is Chester County.

- Claude Rains

topic: Home, Hollywood, County

I always joke around with my parents and say that if Hollywood doesn't work out I'll go to Broadway!

- Claudia Lee

source: "Nice to Meet You: Hart of Dixie Star and Country-Rap Artist, Claudia Lee!". Interview with Haley Longman, www.clevver.com. July 2, 2012.

topic: Work Out, Parent, Hollywood

The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, 'Who won the Oscar last year?'

- Cliff Robertson

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Winning, Years, Hollywood

Pose? I don't pose. What am I? Paris Hilton or something?

- Clint Eastwood

topic: Paris, Hollywood, Film

I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead!

- Clive James

topic: Wish, Hollywood, Pearls

Acting was just outside of the realm of possibility for me. I grew up in L.A. and around Hollywood but I literally never, honestly, considered it.

- Cody Horn

topic: Acting, Hollywood, Possibility, Realm Of Possibility

Her Majesty's Secret Service wouldn't have me on the payroll.

- Colin Farrell

topic: Secret, Hollywood, Majesty, Secret Service, Payroll

Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood.

- Colin Firth

topic: Hollywood

The Hollywood Foreign Press have just given me a time out from my 20-year midlife crisis. My heartfelt thanks to them.

- Colin Firth

topic: Years, Heartfelt, Hollywood, Midlife Crisis, Heartfelt Thanks

I still dont consider myself as going Hollywood. I did a movie because the opportunity presented itself and it was fun. When everything stops being fun, Ill go onto something else.

- Colleen Haskell

topic: Fun, Opportunity, Hollywood

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

- Conrad Veidt

topic: Expectations, Hollywood, Enough

In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.

- Conrad Veidt

topic: Real, Earthquakes, Hollywood, Talkies

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

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Trying, Hollywood, Would Be

I keep a pretty low profile. I live in Culver City with some roommates. I don't do the whole 'Hollywood' thing.

- Cory Monteith

topic: Cities, Hollywood, Roommate

Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't want to alienate half your audience by sending one message or the other.

- Cynthia Nixon

topic: Abortion, Hollywood, Half, Hard Things

I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.

- Damian McGinty

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Hollywood, Broadway, Littles, Little Towns, Derry

In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce.

- Dan Dailey

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Divorce, Hollywood, Littles

If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.

- Dana Carvey

topic: Hollywood, Kind, Certain

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

- Dana Fox

topic: Cutting, Years, Hollywood, Stuff Happens

It's funny... you can make fun of AIDS or Haiti, but if you make fun of some starlet in Hollywood's looks? That's like the one thing... the line you are not to cross.

- Daniel Tosh

topic: Funny, Hollywood, Looks, Starlets

As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before.

- Danny McBride

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Hollywood, Actors, Want

I wish I was old Hollywood.

- Darren Criss

topic: Wish, Hollywood, Old Hollywood

On how he spent his first Hollywood paycheck "I think my first big purchase was actually for my mom. She had one of those '90s TVs in her living room that's like a 10×10 brick, so I purchased her a flatscreen for her living room.

- Dave Franco

topic: Mom, Thinking, Hollywood

As Hollywood knows, I'm full of ideas.

- Dave Willis

source: "Dana Snyder and Dave Willis on Aqua Teen Hunger Force's limitless potential". Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. November 11, 2009.

topic: Ideas, Hollywood

My visibility may have gotten Hollywood to redefine what's attractive.

- David Caruso

topic: Hollywood, May, Visibility

In Hollywood, if you have any success, you have this fear: What do you have to do to hang onto it?

- David Caruso

topic: Hollywood

Hitchcock was one of the few people in Hollywood who had a brand. Every movie he made was an Alfred Hitchcock movie, couldn't have been anyone else.

- David Chase

topic: People, Hollywood, Made, Hitchcock Movie

Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.

- David Fincher

topic: Stupid, Thinking, Hollywood

Broke is a Hollywood term!

- David Geffen

topic: Hollywood, Broke, Term

I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hollywood.

- David James Elliott

source: "David James Elliott Plunges into Sci Fi's Knights of Bloodsteel". Interview with Erin Fox, www.tvguide.com. April 17, 2009.

topic: Men, Hollywood, Cranes

Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money...

- David Lynch

topic: Thinking, Hollywood, Film, I Love Money

Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.

- David Nicholls

topic: Dirty, Thinking, Hollywood, Dirty Words, Hollywood Films

It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside.

- David O. Selznick

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Hollywood, Rooms, Facade

I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.

- David Ogden Stiers

source: Interview with The Arrow, www.joblo.com. June 1, 2002.

topic: Years, Hollywood, Half, Old Hollywood

It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting.

- David Ogden Stiers

source: "The Arrow" Interview, www.joblo.com. June 1, 2002.

topic: Hollywood, Mets, Meetings

Don't be discouraged if you think you're not a great writer because terrible writers are successful in Hollywood

- David Seltzer

topic: Successful, Thinking, Hollywood

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

- David Spade

topic: Crazy, Hollywood

In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts. A lot of Hollywood films tend to be bloated, bombastic, loud. At the same time, I do like the infrastructure of making a blockbuster; it's like having a big train set.

- David Yates

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Drama, Hollywood, World, Bombastic, Hollywood Films