Hollywood Quotes

Most movies suck, even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you're a Hall of Famer.

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation.

I think it's pretty obvious that women's stories are not necessarily being told in Hollywood and women are not necessarily being put in the leadership positions they deserve in mainstream film.

The primary job for women in Hollywood is still super-attractive actress. That is the most high-profile women's job in Hollywood.

Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of winter here.

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.

I realized that people don't quite understand what I do when I was the new kid on the block and a lot of Hollywood was offering me fairly cheesy projects.

Christians are the only group Hollywood can offend with impunity, the only creed it actually goes out of its way to insult... The tenets of Christianity are regularly held up to ridicule.

Hollywood is a very inspiring place.

In Hollywood, I'm lucky, I only do big movies like 'Blade.' It's much more comfortable: you have a trailer.

Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn.

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

For big Hollywood movies, I'm on the more character-driven side of the equation. So, TV is a natural place for me to be because you've got no choice, but to be character-driven.

My own mum cared about Hollywood, and I didn't. I wanted to act, and I loved the creativity of it, but I didn't care for the lifestyle.

Living in Hollywood, you can get disconnected from everybody. You can feel like you are the only one.

I didn't want to play by what rules are in Hollywood.

I love California. I love Hollywood.

I'm not the Hollywood type. I'm not going to pack up my bags and let me move to Hollywood and stuff like that.

I'm not the Hollywood type of person.

No matter what's offered to me, I would never in a million years be the big headed Hollywood type.

After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

The Deer Hunter is securely on my list of American movie events, by which I mean those films that aspired to the whole equation, to be show business and art at the same time.

North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.

The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it.

If women ran Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter would have a "Men in Entertainment" issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something.

Without homosexuals there'd be no Hollywood.

Many in Hollywood viewed the public persona of the young Debbie Reynolds as demure and vulnerable to be a complete facade. Pianist Oscar Levant once quipped, "She's as wistful as an iron factory."

Gear is money, and if there’s one thing we know about Hollywood, it’s that money talks.

I had a really tough time for a few years. My show was gone. My phone wasn't ringing. There wasn't one job offer. And at that point, I thought I knew for sure that I wouldn't work in Hollywood again.

Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played. Hollywood created a superstar, and pain was the price you paid.

When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya!

My father is the Hollywood equivalent of a clean, fillet-brazed frame. My brother is like one of those fat-tubed aluminum Cannondales. I'm more like one of those Taiwanese Masis.

It's so nice after 10 years as a blond actress in Hollywood to have people let you do smart things.

Whether you are a woman on a tea plantation in Kenya, or a stockbroker on Wall Street, or a Hollywood actress, no one is being paid equally.

In Hollywood there's no real material. They would send me stuff, but I hadn't even seen the director. If I don't see the director's eyes, I'm not going. I'm not even going to pack my bags.

I have a theory that most people in Hollywood are from Texas.

So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.

I've never considered myself to be naturally funny and it wasn't until I booked my first few jobs in Hollywood that I started thinking, "I guess I'm funny."

Hollywood wouldn't suit me. In L.A. it's all about work - studio people have their five minutes with you and they go, 'Oh mah Gahd, I love your movie.' You just feel very self-conscious there.

I think being a woman in Hollywood is a big enough challenge. It really is. I don't want to be one of those people who complain. But the lack of roles out there - it's unbelievable.

Most scripts that get written in Hollywood dont go anywhere.

I didn't grow up in a home that glorified Hollywood. We didn't watch TV. We didn't have a lot of magazines around.

Does Hollywood do movies about terrorism? Yeah. And why do they do that? Because it sells.

Every day I spend in Hollywood I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They just do it for the paycheck and I cannot imagine making a film that way.

If you're a big Hollywood star, you make one movie a year at the most. I can make five in Europe.

Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.

Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals.

Sometimes, in the dressing room, I think I am in Hollywood.