Hollywood Quotes

When you think of Hollywood, you think of the land of opportunity. I always want to have the opportunity to do things conducive to my career.

I would definitely like to continue my career in Hollywood, work hard and do my best.

Since Hollywood seems to be more interested in people wearing tights and using powers, there seems to be a fertile ground for movies about real human beings.

As much as my parents are part of Hollywood, I have no recollection of them giving me advice about it.

I probably wouldn't be acting if I didn't grow up in Hollywood.

Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.

As far as drug abuse and all that - listen, this is Hollywood. I don't know how I was able to avoid it, but I'm lucky that I did.

Going through your late teens and early 20s is not an easy time, especially in Hollywood. So you just learn your lessons, you make your mistakes and you move on.

One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.

This is a movement to say we're more than just our dresses. ... It's hard being a woman in Hollywood or any industry.

I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America.

I don't go to a lot of parties or do a lot of going out within, like, the Hollywood circle or celebrity-type circles and things like that.

It rekindles the great Hollywood romances.

There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage.

Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.

I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.

I'm not part of the Hollywood scene. I don't run around with 30 women. I have a very calm household. I'm surrounded by my grandkids and wonderful friends, and I consider myself very lucky.

There are conservatives in Hollywood who make good movies. They just don't make conservative movies because that's not what gets funded.

I think Hollywood's gotten more reactionary and conservative over the years, because there's no longer art in Hollywood. Art suffers in Hollywood.

Hollywood is responsible for some of the greatest and worst movies of all time!

I'm not a film snob at all. I much prefer a really good Hollywood blockbuster than a thought-provoking art house movie because entertainment is sort of where it's at.

Most people sitting at home aren't cool, successful, witty Hollywood stars, but they all worry about what people think of them when they faux pas.

There's a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you're an actor you're somehow not a member of the crew. You're somehow more special. I hate that.

Because someone stole Gregory Peck's star on Hollywood Blvd., I have hired a Brink's guard to protect my star!

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

I consider myself a student of Hollywood.

Movies in general are more generic. If something sells just make more. That's Hollywood.

If you've got a huge Hollywood star in your film, they're getting $32 million, and everyone else gets their bus fare.

I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.

Who would know that by playing a nerdy alien and a child killer, I would have a 30-year career in Hollywood? I've outlasted so many people.

Hollywood is tripping over its own feet.

Many of us had this idea of doing independent film, of making personal, relevant films, as opposed to Hollywood fluff. I directed a few.

The problem for independent filmmakers is that huge companies control all the promotion, all the advertising. Hollywood films' advertising budgets are as large as their shooting budgets.

It seems everyone in Hollywood is getting pinched, lifted and pulled. I'm looking weird because I'm not.

It's all about greed and money and it's the driving force in Hollywood.

Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would... make money.

I look at going to Hollywood as going behind enemy lines. You parachute in, set up the explosion, then fly out before it goes off.

Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.

The normal Hollywood approach is to have a super-charged production company and then go to the studios for distribution and marketing.

I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood.

I was called recently in some article "Hollywood's Oldest Established Rebel." So I'm sort of working from the inside now, with still a little bit of a rebellious spirit.

It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.

I'm not saying that it's wrong to make huge Hollywood films but it's just a different kind of feeling, a different sort of pleasure.

There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood.

There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both.

I grew up in San Francisco and moved to L.A. about 20 years ago, and now my main home is in Hollywood.

It's not just people in Hollywood: I'm sure everyone in the world thinks, 'What would be it like if I won an Oscar?

I'd like to change the depictions of life, love, and adventure under what's known as the typical, overused backdrop of Hollywood.

Hollywood is all about making an entrance. I don't want to be a walking advertisement for anyone other than myself.

I live a very international life, but when I come back to Hollywood, a town I love in a lot of ways, I have to wonder, "What decade are you in? Like, seriously, what decade? It's not this one."