Hollywood Quotes

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

"I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks"

"That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions"

Bert Lahr, Actor

"After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but also have some actors that had no attitude"

Phillip Noyce, Director

"We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new"

Michael Eisner, Businessman

"I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy"

Ennio Morricone, Composer

"Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star"

Liza Minelli, Entertainer

"Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point"

Richard Linklater, Director

"Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it"

Richard Linklater, Director

"I've continued to always keep in mind having a healthy does of that in Hollywood, now that I am part of the system and obviously have to follow the way the system works - you still have to have that crazy determination"

Renny Harlin, Director

"Hollywood is going to have to find a way of meeting those profit goals"

Peter Bart, Editor

"It's nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film as long as it is the right thing to do"

Neil Jordan, Director

"People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them"

Wayne Rogers, Actor

"I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens"

Tatum O'Neal, Actress

"Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood"

Vic Morrow, Actor

"There are thousands of directors in Hollywood"

Penelope Spheeris, Director

"Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment"

Joan Crawford, Actress

"I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four"

Radha Mitchell, Actress

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

Jamie Farr, Actor

"Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio"

Mel Torme, Musician

"I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life"

Sydney Pollack, Director

"The bottom line of Hollywood is money"

Victoria Jackson, Comedian

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

Victoria Jackson, Comedian

"Julia Roberts is a favorite. Everybody loves her in the Hollywood community. The public adores her"

Mary Hart, Entertainer

"Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood"

Mark Ruffalo, Actor

"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"

Marlee Matlin, Actress

"I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood"

Mac Davis, Musician

"I would rather have gotten married than have a Hollywood contract"

Jennifer O'Neill, Actress

"I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise"

J. J. Johnson, Musician

"I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas. I never would have imagined that one day I would follow one of those clouds and find myself in Hollywood"

Renee Zellweger, Actress

"I arrived in Hollywood and lived much of my life in America, but the fans did not really know me"

Persis Khambatta, Actress

"But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood"

Sydney Pollack, Director

"In Hollywood there are a lot of very insecure men running the business"

Rosanna Arquette, Actress

"What the Bleep Do We Know was not written with a deaf person in mind, but when they met me, it clicked with them to have me in it. But that happens with a lot of actors in Hollywood, not just with me"

Marlee Matlin, Actress

"When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room and gave them popcorn. It was called 'Project Hollywood 2004' and it worked. I moved to L.A. in January of 2004"

Emma Stone, Actress

"What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river"

Joseph Wambaugh, Writer

"I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet"

Natasha Richardson, Actress

"Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews"

Pola Negri, Actress

"I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that"

Patrick Marber, Writer

"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"

Patrick Marber, Writer

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