Hollywood Quotes

I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.

I, like most people, came out to Hollywood to get into movies.

In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an actor. I don't think there's a real person left in the place.

It's nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film as long as it is the right thing to do.

Hollywood in many ways serves as the unofficial ministry of propaganda for the United States.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood.

The military has a very long relationship with Hollywood that dates back to the silent film era.

I needed to change my name just to liberate myself and find out I could do it without walking into a Hollywood casting office with the name Coppola.

If the Wizard of Oz were real he would be in Hollywood.

Ironically, even the fashion in New York or Paris or Milan or whatever, or music in Berlin, or art in, I don't know, Madrid - all these scenes come and go. Everything leads back to Hollywood.

I was in Hollywood. It's the mythology heart. It's where all the European films came in the '30s and '40s. The marriage between Europe and Hollywood has always been the best when it works.

Hollywood always likes to create a star.

I went to the University of Arizona. I stopped because I went there for two years and I felt like I experienced college or whatever. I'm over it. I like Hollywood better.

There just are not a lot of overweight people in Hollywood.

Making a movie in Hollywood is a bit like playing a board game, where you have to throw a six to start.

I don't have this crazy dream about going to Hollywood, because I really love to watch movies and do movies that are complicated, and I want more strange things and complicated things.

I'm not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job.

It's a very odd thing with Hollywood, where you do stand-up, you're good at it, then they go, "How would you like to be a horrible actor?" Then you say, "All right, that sounds good. I'll do that."

Hollywood sucks. I've got the bruises to prove it.

In the wake of Animal House, all of us at the Lampoon had a lot of Hollywood opportunities. We could definitely get people to return phone calls.

I have a silicone bust, and half of Hollywood - artificial person.

[On Hollywood:] This is no town for a come back, people are too unsure of themselves.

I do like musical films more than big Hollywood films, especially those by Jacques Demi and Vincent Minelli.

I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.

I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.

And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press.

[Hollywood] always sounds glamorous when you're young.

I'll be a flop in movies. Besides, I don't like 'em, and I never did believe there was a place called Hollywood. Somebody made it up!

The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided a plausible adult recreation to grow up into.

Hollywood is a changing world these days. This is one of the things that ought to be changed.

I think Hollywood is in love with sequels. If it's successful once, just jazz it up and shoot it out there again. I think it's unfortunate.

The original suit was designed by a guy named Mr. Jay from Hollywood. But nowadays I'm having the suit duplicated. At this point I have about three good suits and about three really raggedy ones.

That's one thing about Hollywood. People don't always want what's real. People always want a little more. So for me, it's a compromise. Here you go, that hyper-reality.

If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?

Writers who go to Hollywood still follow the classic pattern: either you get disgusted by 'them' and you leave or you want the money and you become them.

Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.

I never made films like kind of career moves, like making this film in order to make that film in order to end up in Hollywood.

Hollywood has treated me well.

Hollywood is not stupid, contrary to popular belief; it's really a lot of intelligent people trying to figure things out.

To the critics: You always complain that Hollywood never gives you new stuff, and then when you get it, you flip out. Lighten up.

I'm frankly shocked that Hollywood hasn't called me to do a superhero.

Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get into it and work.

I am an international citizen conceived in Russia, born in England, working in Hollywood, living in Switzerland, and touring the World.

If you asked central casting in Hollywood for somebody to play the role of President, they'd send you John Connally.

A good storyteller can hold everybody captive without the special effects of Hollywood.

Hollywood's full of transients. Everybody comes from somewhere else.

My goal is: I'm not trying to be snobby, but my clothes are not for everyone, not for every Hollywood celebrity. There is a designer for everyone, and a celebrity for every designer.

Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money.

I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.