Hollywood Quotes

I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter.

When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.

Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles.

I'm a producer... I am a Hollywood producer. That is so weird. And it's not lame. But it's just like, how did that happen?

I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.

Hollywood likes to put out their own message out a lot of times, and that message isn't the best one for everyone.

I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets.

Commuting from New York to Hollywood to do this show gets more interesting every week. Before I used to think the country was just New York on one end and Los Angeles on the other, with sand and mountains in the middle.

Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.

It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out.

The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood's box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place.

The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.

I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.

Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies.

There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.

Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it's not real at all.

Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.

Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.

Rome is magic, it's like being in Hollywood. But the difference between Hollywood and Rome is that here you don't have just the movie business. The movie business is so little, so you also have the choice to hang out with people who do different kinds of business.

My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

Hollywood was never great for children.

I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn't want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don't answer.

I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.

I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that.

Hollywood have been in touch; they want to make a movie of my life.