Hollywood Quotes

In Hollywood, you grow up quick.

I think the level of criticism you're under is never healthy. I think that's why lots of people in Hollywood end up in rehab. There are the ups and downs. I was never a fan of the attention.

When I first came out to L.A., Hollywoods idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen or heard of an Afro-Latina before.

Hollywood dishes out too much praise for small things I won't let it get me, but too much praise can turn a fellow's head if he doesn't watch his step.

If you are a star in Hollywood then you are always a star in your eyes, but not always in the eyes of new directors for whom your great performances are always fading into the past.

I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.

I pursued a theatre career, and Hollywood came calling.

If a young woman is looking at the landscape of Hollywood, what she sees is almost only challenges.

I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.

My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.

Growing up in Hollywood, like I did, I have a passion and a love for the movies, so I go to the cinema all the time.

As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called 'a little crazy'. And now I guess I'm still that way.

I grew up in Hollywood but not in any rich neighborhood.

I had that perfect deadpan ... for these commercials. Within the first eight months I had eight national TV commercials. I'm a true Hollywood success story - knew no one, had no connections.

My mom brought me up on old Hollywood. I had been living in Los Angeles. Respecting old movies and growing up with people that were icons that I got to speak to.

I may be the only actress in Hollywood who won't need a face lift, because when I take off my makeup, I look so great compared to my characters!

I've had a little Hollywood experience, and there's nothing like the Disney story experience.

Hollywood is weird, man. The child-actor world is the weirdest. But somehow I survived.

My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

Catherine Zeta-Jones started out like me. Her big break in Hollywood was in 'Zorro.'

You can get pigeonholed in Hollywood and people think of you in a certain way.

I've been trying to bust into the comedy business my whole life. It's hard in Hollywood to do different things. I know this. It's a struggle.

Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.

Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and ambition for both.

[On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It's a youth business.

It's really hard to meet good women in Hollywood.

I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.

Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.

Hollywood, how can it hurt you when it looks so good?

The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood ... Life elsewhere was real and slippery and struggled in the arms like a big fish dying in air.

Hollywood was like a mouse being followed by a cat called television.

As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?

This is the place to see the stars - Hollywood Bowl.

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

Hollywood is a deeply odd place. There are so many factors that have to go perfectly, so many schedules and visions that have to snap together for a film even to be made, much less be good.

The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.

You'll never learn to act in Hollywood. Not in a thousand years.

Living in Hollywood, it's easy to have someone flatter you. That doesn't help me.

Hollywood infected my brain and I really valued the wrong things in life, but I changed dramatically.

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

Hollywood is a place of great irony at all times.

To Kill a Mockingbird' represents Hollywood at its very finest, when a popular film could truly contain a message. It has one of the most moving scores of all time.

Hollywood has nothing to do with real life.

It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.

Hollywood is high school with money.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

The good part of working in TV is it's like being a studio director in old Hollywood and approaching different genres. It's a chance to try out different styles.

I grew up interested in the underside of Hollywood, which I think David Lynch does really well.

I'm not comfortable with getting a job by being at the right Hollywood party; I'm not a terribly sociable creature.

I don't consider myself a Hollywood liberal, but I have my convictions and my beliefs.