Hollywood Quotes

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.

Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer.

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.

The question now is does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don't think he'll raise it out of the New York people, I don't think he's going to raise it out the Hollywood people, so where's the money going to come from for Barack Obama?

If I ever lose a role because of my tattoos, I'll quit Hollywood and go to work at Costco.

I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look.

In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.

Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.

In Hollywood, she's revered, she gets nominated for Oscars, but I've never heard anyone in the public or among my friends say, 'Oh, I love Winona Ryder.'

Hollywood is finally waking up to the fact that people who go to church also go to the movies. I'm not sure what took them so long to see that or how long they'll keep it up.

I don't think I ever understood Hollywood.

I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.

Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.

West Hollywood is predominantly gay, so every man that came into the grocery store was shopping for his boyfriend.

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

I've learned by hanging out in Hollywood, where I disagree politically with most people, that most people's hearts are in the right place, and the only thing we have to argue about is the way to solve the problems.

I'm not a Hollywood guy.

You know what? I never really factor Hollywood into anything. I'm a black actor, so I can't really control what Hollywood thinks. I gotta go do my thing, and my jokes have got to be funny. Whatever I do has got to be great.