Hollywood Quotes

If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?

Hollywood is just like high school: The popular people love the other popular people. And the thing is, some people aren't nice. Or they are nice, but only to your face, not elsewhere.

I have always let the lack of Indian actors in the industry drive me, not hold me back. I remember an agent in L.A. telling me a few years ago that an Indian actor wouldn't ever make it in Hollywood, but my ethnicity has helped me.

What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing.

I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there.

But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it.

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

I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows.

At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.

Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense.

Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.

Hollywood is a world all its own.

Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right.

As you know, Hollywood loves to pigeonhole all the actors and actresses, and suddenly I got 're-pigeonholed' as an action actor.

Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make.

Everybody told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place they said I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was that no one would quite know what to do with me.

After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.

Julia Roberts is a favorite. Everybody loves her in the Hollywood community. The public adores her.

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

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

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

There are so many things I'd like to change in the industry. Everything from the reliance of style over substance to their reluctance to hire me for big budget blockbusters, but the thing I would love most would be if they understood people don't have to be Hollywood beautiful to be sexy or interesting.

I'll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working.

Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls.