Hollywood Quotes

I've seen it too many times in Hollywood. Talking about a relationship in public can jinx it. And if you have your picture taken together, you might as well start packing your bags.

Most Americans in both red and blue states reject and resent the message being sent by Hollywood and some in the media that values are subjective, to be defined by the individual and not by God.

There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.

Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel.

One of the things that drives me crazy is the belief in Hollywood that bittorrent exists solely for stealing things.

Living in Hollywood, it's easy to have someone flatter you. That doesn't help me.

Whatever God gave you, you have to work that to your best ability - especially out here in Hollywood, the land of beautiful people.

I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.

There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.

In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.

What's fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.

My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.

Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression.

Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.

I always wanted to make motion pictures, ever since I was a wee boy, and I was 32, and time was marching on. I met a guy who said, 'Come out to Hollywood for 10 days, and I'll get you a deal.' So I figured, 'OK, 10 days.' On the 10th day, he got me a development deal with Disney, not for a lot of money, but it allowed me to make the move.

There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.

If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.

If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.

They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.

We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.

There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.

I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.

I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last.

I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's in. So you just think that it's Hollywood stuff or whatever.

But I thought, I've just got to check out Hollywood, so I sent out pictures and resumes.