Hollywood Quotes

"I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows"

"I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood"

"If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?"

"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"

Bruce Campbell, Actor

"Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood"

Budd Schulberg, Writer

"I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood"

Skitch Henderson, Musician

"It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar"

Jerry Della Femina, Businessman

"I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star"

Arlene Dahl, Actress

"As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films"

Johnny Ramone, Musician

"The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we've lost something, and we don't know how to get it back"

Roy Rogers, Entertainer

"My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there"

Kitty Carlisle, Musician

"Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood"

Ryan Phillippe, Actor

"I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one"

Jean-Marie Messier

"You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville"

Richie Sambora, Musician

"I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood"

Penelope Spheeris, Director

"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"

Roland Emmerich, Director

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

R. W. Apple, Jr., Journalist

"It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood"

Martin Henderson, Actor

"I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan"

James Van Der Beek, Actor

"And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood"

Skitch Henderson, Musician

"Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form"

Richard Corliss, Writer

"When I first came here, Hollywood was very closed-minded"

Tia Carrere, Actress

"In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have OK teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already"

John Corbett, Actor

"I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways"

Roland Emmerich, Director

"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?"

Juan Williams, Journalist

"Most Americans in both red and blue states reject and resent the message being sent by Hollywood and some in the media that values are subjective, to be defined by the individual and not by God"

Trent Lott, Politician

"Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything"

Bruce Davison, Actor

"National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense"

Peter Weir, Director

"The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process"

Peter Bart, Editor

"We should never forget that Hollywood was built by Europeans, and the old Jewish boys from Eastern Europe"

Maximilian Schell, Actor

"I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood"

Marlee Matlin, Actress

"You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's much better if you've got four or five"

Nigel Kneale, Writer

"Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls"

Julia Phillips, Author

"Law students have taken over Hollywood. To them it's all about making money. They know people want to see what they've seen before. Also, remakes are places to showcase the new stars of tomorrow"

Tobe Hooper, Director

"But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter"

Patrick Macnee, Actor

"It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies"

Roland Emmerich, Director

"The idea of making pictures abroad is exciting when you're in Hollywood and have never worked in foreign countries. You think you'll get to see the sights and have all the fun that goes with traveling. Actually, you spend so much time on the job that you don't do much else"

Jeffrey Hunter, Actor

"Broadway is such a diverse community. Everybody knows how I believe, and everyone believes, and it's not a big deal. But in Hollywood, if you talk about politics - especially if you're a Republican - or spirituality, it's just not something people want to hear about"

Kristin Chenoweth, Actress

"So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies"

Kitty Carlisle, Musician

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

Jerry Falwell, Clergyman

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