Hollywood Quotes

I don't really know Hollywood, but living and shooting in L.A. was very motivating, inspiring. The lights, the extras, their American faces, the energy, the Orpheum Theatre. It was all very inspiring.

In Hollywood you just fail upwards.

I hadn't made a big-budget film, and in Hollywood there's a sort of man and boys situation. You're a man, you make $80 million movies! As if it's harder to make an $80 million movie. Well, I guess businesswise it is because you have more executives to argue with.

What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.

I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.

I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star.

There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard.

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.

I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.

I want to be able to work on a project that will give people around the world the chance to represent their own people, their own culture, their own stories, rather than just Hollywood - really, you know, dominated Hollywood. And that's a dream of mine.

Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.

I find Hollywood really toxic.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I'd say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood.

Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.

The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.

You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood.

My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.

I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.

This summer, I'll be bringing out a mystery that involves a young lawyer and a court scene the likes of which I don't think you've ever seen. Hollywood said this is James Patterson meets John Grisham.

When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya!

There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the papers.

Hollywood looks to these young people now to say something to the world. I have nothing against that, I think a lot of people have things to say. But I think you need life experience.

Thank you, Hollywood, for allowing me to be part of your group.

Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.

But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.

I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.

Hollywood likes to label everyone so you're easier to identify.

That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.

Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.