Hollywood Quotes

I think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use.

People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.

I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's why I don't live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.

I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hollywood.

Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.

I think that in Hollywood, it's hard because so many people do turn out crazy. I don't need to go out every night to get attention. I'm happy with the amount that I have.

In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.

Once you've been booked, people in Hollywood say, 'Oh he must be good.' All the while you're the same actor.

To this day, I don't know what shapes a Hollywood career.

U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.

Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.

I am so stereotyped into being this Hollywood girl.

I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.

Everyone has to pay their child support, and no matter if you're a Hollywood actor or anyone else, it's always a little bit more than you want to pay.

I can meet any producer in Hollywood and look them in the eye, knowing I didn't sleep with them, or do drugs with them.

There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

I'm not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job.

Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.

I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.

I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress.

I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.

I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.

The attempt is that we want to get a couple of minutes under our belt, depending on how good the tests are and take that into Hollywood. The fallback is we're going to DVD anyways. We've got that covered.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it.

I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.