Hollywood Quotes

Steve Howey is probably the funniest man in Hollywood. For real. He is just that person that can make you laugh at all times.

Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make that any man anywhere.

I've made humanitarian causes and my children much more my priority than the Hollywood scene, being liked and getting movie parts.

Everyone in Hollywood who is successful becomes less successful at some point. I'm just trying to delay that fall for as long as I can.

No one has a closest friend in Hollywood. These guys do not do friends in the orthodox sense!

The world has certain rules - Hollywood has certain rules - but it doesn't mean you have to play by them, and I don't, or I'd be a miserable person.

I never went to any of the Hollywood child parties.

Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.

Delay and indecision are first weapons in the armory of moviemakers.

The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally.

Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood?

For me, rather than the language, the Hollywood system of making movies was a tremendous learning experience.

These 150-minute superhero films that Hollywood is making are so concerned with their length that each scene doesn't have the time it needs to make sense.

Hollywood is definitely now embracing a more natural approach to beauty. Staying "youthful-looking" is old news.

I'm surprised that Hollywood and networks have not been diverse as other industries.

I'm not always happy when Hollywood does remakes of films, but that's usually, when they have a very, very, very good film and they take away anything controversial from it and make flatter.

My upbringing was very un-Hollywood. I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch.

I have no interest in changing Hollywood. Hollywood is a place so consumed by the spirit of the world that I don't even want to try to think about how to infiltrate that.

There's a lot of idiots in Hollywood, a lot of people with no imagination, so as an actor you have to constantly re-show them what you can do.

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.

I don't think I'm kind of universally known. I think in the indie world I'm probably better known than in some mainstream Hollywood terms.

Hollywood must be the only place on earth where you can be fired by a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap.

As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene.

Hollywood can buy a lot of pieces of the puzzle, but the great thing is they can never buy word of mouth.

It felt [at the Allied set] like, "At last, I'm in Hollywood," even though I was in West London. It was like, "This is how a film should be made." It was beautiful.

I believe 'Hollywood' is more like middle America than many people imagine.

What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is, while the creative community admittedly leans left, Hollywood has become a corporate town.

I think that's one of the great things about the travel. One day I am at home in Sheffield, the next day I'm playing the Hollywood Bowl. It's extraordinary.

I think I came along at an opportune time. I don't know if that would happen anymore, because the whole way of doing business in Hollywood has changed.

I'm always fascinated by people from the Midwest, because it is so different than Hollywood, who discover at some point that they want to be in Hollywood.

I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and Hollywood, and what have you.

In Hollywood, most things are based on looks, so I'd love to do something that has nothing to do with how I look.

I think my music is great for film, but I don't have the opportunity, or goesche to go and pitch myself to Hollywood.

Hollywood is a bit of a publicity game where it's constantly trying to portray things and put up this image and I was not interested in that.

You know the hardest thing to do in Hollywood is burn bridges. There is usually some sucker who still likes me. There is usually some sucker who will still work with me.

The success of the Hollywood marketing machine is to limit what we see. Not just to limit what we can see, but also to limit our expectations - to limit what we want to see.

Being recognized by Hollywood is a dream true; it's really an amazing moment.

Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens.

I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.

I kept thinking that with all those first jobs, "This is the beginning of something!" And then nothing would happen. That's the real Hollywood.

Don't be intimidated by Caesar's Hollywood fake versions of religiosity. If life has a meaning for you beyond the TV-studio game, you are religious! Spell it out!

Because of 'The Birds' and 'Marnie' I was, as the expression goes, hot in Hollywood and producers and directors wanted to hire me.

The misconception about Hollywood is that it's a crazy drug and alcohol fueled place. It can be but there's also a huge sober community.

I came in on the tail end of the old school of Hollywood

Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp.

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

I always wanted to do a Hollywood story. The thing about actors, though, is that they go through a streak of roles. The question is, what's in between?

Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know... It's just good entertainment.