Hollywood Quotes

Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel.

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

Youth and nepotism, the twin horsemen of Hollywood!

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.

For me, it’s not about breaking big in Hollywood, but having interesting experiences.

I was very lucky because Tim Burton really gave me a career. I don't think Hollywood would've known what to do with me. If I hadn't done 'Beetlejuice,' I think I would've just gone back to my school.

This is Hollywood. People don't admit mistakes.

Hollywood is a challenging place; it's very easy for people to lose their heads. Fortunately, I grew up on it and I think I have a little bit of a head start.

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

Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.

I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.

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

When people refer to me as a 'regular' girl...it's code word for 'fat' in Hollywood....But...my body has chosen its shape. I'd rather be strong than skinny.

There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

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.

It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.

There's nothing the matter with Hollywood that a good earthquake couldn't cure.

Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA.

What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait

Hollywood continues to present the US army as being the good guys, always defeating the aliens or foreigners.

In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.

I got around a lot, and lots of people talked to me. I salted down stories by the barrel load.

They've great respect for the dead in Hollywood, but none for the living.

Superman and Robinhood are still alive in Hollywood.

It's not what you are in Hollywood - it's what people think you are.

I hear Jerry Falwell every Sunday here talking about the devil and Hollywood. . . . I'm gonna write him a letter. Hollywood wasn't built on filth and dirt - it was built on talent.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood-Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.

My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful

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

We've tried as hard as we can into keep the ideas intact in the hail storm that is Hollywood, so, whether he is or not, I'm personally proud of what I've been able to jam down their throats.

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

The Hollywood executives are, like, ‘We’re not racist, we just have to pretend to be racists because we’re capitalists. We want to sell our movies in China (and) they don’t like Kevin Hart.’

Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It's not going to do me any good.

Hollywood was invented by hoodlums from central Europe. And today a Hollywood lawyer is not a hoodlum. He's a bureaucrat.

I would rather live in a country where children are protected and their predators prosecuted, and even (which in Hollywood is evidently not always the same thing) disapproved of.

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

People are drawn to radical Islam because they feel their traditional ways of life threatened by the influx of KFC and Hollywood movies and the like.

An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.

I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox. But if I put on a white tails and tux like Fred Astaire, I still looked like a truck driver.

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie

I have to make my bones with Hollywood to get in. And when I do maybe I'll metamorphose from Mr. Muscles or whatever it is I am now and become an irascible tosser.

[The Player is] not a truthful indictment of Hollywood. It's much uglier than I portrayed it, but nobody would've been interested if I'd shown just how sadistic, cruel and self-orientated it is.

Gluten free pizza elicits the same response at a hollywood party that a pile of cocaine did in the 80's.

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.

The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.