Hollywood Quotes

I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business.

People in Hollywood don't have that much sex, or at least I don't.

That's one thing about Hollywood. People don't always want what's real. People always want a little more. So for me, it's a compromise. Here you go, that hyper-reality.

There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.

If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.

If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.

Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.

They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.

We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.

There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.

I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.

I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last.

I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's in. So you just think that it's Hollywood stuff or whatever.

But I thought, I've just got to check out Hollywood, so I sent out pictures and resumes.

There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood.

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.

I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.

I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox.

If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas.

If you look round Hollywood there's no end of white smiles and six packs. Long lines of beautiful people lining up to be incredible on film.

There are plenty of lesbians in Hollywood, but they're not out. And that's their choice, but I can't do that, it's too important to me.

But we did the Pink Panther not in Hollywood, in Italy.

An audience is going to be able to find a little bit of Dorothy in themselves and relate to this woman.: roles like Dorothy Day are so rare in Hollywood.

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.

Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth.

I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.