Hollywood Quotes

My movies work because not many people in Hollywood are like me.

You learn that Hollywood has its own rules, sometimes. And it's tricky, and sometimes you can't see what's coming around the corner.

Cool people still have a hard time showing what they got in Hollywood.

Hollywood is obsessed with police stories.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.

I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.

In Hollywood, you feel a responsibility to look less disheveled than you are. But I'm a mom, and I'm not good at putting time into prepping.

People love things about Hollywood. People love to see the inside of what's going on.

Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainment--rich in fantasy and blithely amoral.

In a sometimes unreasonable business, Jack Valenti was a giant voice of reason. He was the greatest ambassador Hollywood has ever known and I will value his wisdom and friendship for all time.

I do have friends in Australia who now refer to me as 'Hollywood Jack.'

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

I don't want to be the Hollywood girl... I'm Southern and old-fashioned.

I think the children of Hollywood are more influential than the parents.

There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard.

I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an established filmmaker. It's a blue-collar sensibility.

Hollywood is a peculiar beast - people in Hollywood are nuts.

When you go out to Hollywood, it's like, "Here's the book. It is what it is. It'll always stay the same."

The advent of DVD/Blu-ray reissues of classic Hollywood and foreign films has been a boon to film buffs, who can now study their favorites in all their glistening detail and restored palettes.

During my first few weeks in Hollywood, I was told that Jack Warner, the head of the studio, did not believe that a small-breasted woman could become a star.

I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me.

I developed a sense of self before moving to crazy Hollywood, which was really important.

Sometimes when you get old, you get a star on Hollywood Boulevard.

When you see natural disasters caught on film you realize how well they had been imagined by Hollywood for such a long time. It's all good fun. You never know who's gonna survive and who doesn't.

Hollywood is called Hollywood, but holly doesn't grow there. Right from the start it's based on a lie. But it's a very seductive lie, and we're still entranced by it.

There are no real guidelines or maps in Australia as to how to write a show, whereas in Hollywood it's where the TV industry is created and there's a lot of work that goes into development.

So many young pets burn out in Hollywood, it's crazy.

I think that winning the battle in Hollywood is a necessary condition to winning the culture war.

I also read about Heathcliff's unexpected three-year career in Hollywood under the name Buck Stallion and his eventual return to the pages of Wuthering Heights.

I moved to Hollywood when I was 18. I never saw it as a disadvantage in any way. Quite the opposite.

There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

Most people in Hollywood are making about 10 percent of all the things they're considering; I am making 95 percent.

I hated the place (Hollywood), not the work, but the lack of privacy, those terrible prying fan magazine writers and all the surrounding exploitation.

Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.

I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one.

In Hollywood everything is formatted, everything is compulsory, so therefore we have to follow the law of benefits and profit and money, let us say the law of Hollywood.

I don't have too much time to jam with the rest of Hollywood.

I got very depressed. Hollywood can be a terrible place when youre depressed. The pits. I decided I had to change my life and do different things.

As young, hot actors living in Hollywood, you get even more attractive.

I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe.

Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.

There's always a backlash in everything that you do, but it's not going to stop or change anything. And it's not only an issue in Hollywood.

I'm also influenced by all the places I've traveled since then: I've been to Hollywood and great fashion shows and seen the world. I have a different perspective, and I mix that up.

The saddest and strangest part of Hollywood to me is the fact that millions of dollars are spent on developing works that never get made. It doesn't make any sense to me. I don't understand it.

There's nothing nicer than coming back to your village, where people like my mum's friends take the mick out of me. I prefer that to the craziness of Hollywood.

My husband is someone who's in the real world. It's a big help that I don't have both feet in Hollywood

I mean, the Lakers are pretty damn Hollywood.

I don't hang out with the Hollywood cool people. I'm not out trying to make friends with people because they're famous.

I don't remember, at 19, someone giving me a golden key and saying, 'Welcome to Hollywood; which job would you like?'