Hollywood Quotes

People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.

I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.

In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness you send out for it.

This really blew my mind, the fact that me, an over fed, long haired, leaping gnome, should be the star of a Hollywood movie.

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

I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood.

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.

What's the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real.

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.

If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.

I love watching old movies anyway - I grew up with my mom watching old movies and being immersed in the history of old Hollywood.

In Hollywood - and indeed, the world - a lot of women only think about themselves in the context of men. It's truly sad.

Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

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.

We haven't done enough work to encourage minorities to strive to make movies. Hollywood is a place full of white male directors - there are many good ones. We just haven't nurtured our voices.

Hollywood - an emotional Detroit.

I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.

I also would rather race than strut red carpets in Hollywood - and thank God this is not my job - but also the team principals should be more prominent.

There's is not enough money in Hollywood to lure me into making another picture with Joan Crawford. And I like money.

I'm still waiting for my first big Hollywood paycheck... maybe I'll play a superhero.

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

If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?

I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them

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

In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.

Hooray for Hollywood.

Ronald Reagan just signed the new tax law. But I think he was in Hollywood too long. He signed it, 'Best wishes, Ronald Reagan.'

I am a child of Hollywood and dreams. To me, to be on the red carpet is the best place in the world.

I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.

[T]here's nobody Black in charge of anything in Hollywood.

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.

If there was no Hollywood, no next movie, no deal at Warner Brothers, no place in Malibu or Venice, I would still be really happy.

Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.

Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.

Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.

In Hollywood, no one knows anything.

As I've gotten older and learned more, I realise that Hollywood has not told the truth.

... Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, two publications read more faithfully in Hollywood than the Koran is in Mecca.

In Hollywood there are a lot of very insecure men running the business.

Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it.

I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.

Hollywood has lost an enormous amount of quality.

Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.

Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.

If I ever lose a role because of my tattoos, I'll quit Hollywood and go to work at Costco.

I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit

I didn't come to Hollywood to get on magazine covers or start my Porsche collection or to enjoy that kind of lifestyle, to go to the right parties and meet the right people.