Hollywood Quotes

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.

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.

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.

In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests.

At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know.

In Hollywood, if you have any success, you have this fear: What do you have to do to hang onto it?

People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

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

The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.

In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.

I don't give a damn about Hollywood.

But it's a strange thing when people judge you because you're not doing some big Hollywood film. Are you suggesting I should be in 'The Dukes of Hazzard?' I mean, hello?

Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.

I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.

I live in Italy part time, and they're obsessed with what's happening in LA too. They make fun of Americans, but the world wants to know what's going on in Hollywood.