Hollywood Quotes

I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood.

I would rather have gotten married than have a Hollywood contract.

Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.

It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in it. It's not really our crowning achievement as a civilisation. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but it just bores me.

But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.

My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman.

I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals.

No one has a closest friend in Hollywood.

Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.

I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move there. It's very much an industry town and that doesn't really interest me.

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.

If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.

I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

We should never forget that Hollywood was built by Europeans, and the old Jewish boys from Eastern Europe.

Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures.

Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood.

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.

I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time.

The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.

We're open people. I don't understand these Hollywood people who don't want to put their real life on TV, yet they want people to watch them and be fans with them.

Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.

I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.

I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don't get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best.

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.

Hollywood, it has treated me so nicely, I am ready to faint! As soon as I see Hollywood, I love it.

I think there is an immense charm and humanity about the Bollywood structure, probably in the way there was about Hollywood film in the '30s and '40s. Somehow they were less distracted about hardware, and more about production values and people, you know?

Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle.