Hollywood Quotes

If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of focus. You know, it's just a mush.

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

Training Day was such a Hollywood movie; I didn't like it.

In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.

I've chosen not to live in Hollywood, and instead I live in Brooklyn, New York. It's how I like to live. I'd rather hang out with my kids and family when I'm not working. Going to premieres is not my idea of a fun night out.

I don't want to go to Hollywood.

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.

If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic.

Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse.

Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.

Being in Hollywood is like being in the Christian right these days.

I feel like a lot of people think of Hollywood as being fake, but it's only perceived that way because it takes 10 people to make someone look the way that they do. In reality, they're there because they are doing what they're passionate about.

No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.

So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts.

Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.

I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing.

I had a really negative look at the night-life side of Hollywood, which I really didn't like. I went to New York to focus on modeling, and then of course found that New York was not any different from Los Angeles.

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

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

And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.

A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific.

The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do.

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

For us, as actors, and even for the director, it gave us a sense of authenticity to what we were doing because we were talking about Hollywood and we were in Hollywood.

Being from New York, there's three things you know about Hollywood. You know about the Hollywood sign, Sunset Strip and Hollywood Boulevard with the stars.