Hollywood Quotes

"Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers"

"In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity"

"We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do"

Yahoo Serious, Director

"I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum"

Robert De Niro, Actor

"I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years"

David Ogden Stiers, Actor

"In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'"

Jackie Chan, Actor

"And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet"

Joe Eszterhas, Writer

"So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence"

Eriq La Salle, Actor

"Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood"

Richard O'Brien, Actor

"Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office"

Yahoo Serious, Director

"I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films"

Laura Dern, Actress

"I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it"

Sherilyn Fenn, Actress

"Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package"

Sherilyn Fenn, Actress

"It'd be like what would happen if Hollywood took over porno: 'If we keep their clothes on and they didn't have sex, we'd be able to sell it to a lot more people'"

Rob Zombie, Musician

"After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully"

Maureen O'Hara, Actress

"After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with"

Sue Grafton, Novelist

"As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic"

Maureen O'Hara, Actress

"Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job"

Laura Dern, Actress

"Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material"

Rick Moranis, Actor

"Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project"

Sherilyn Fenn, Actress

"Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older"

Jamie Lee Curtis, Actress

"I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing"

Judy Holliday, Actress

"I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood"

Esther Williams, Actress

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

Elia Kazan, Director

"It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide"

Charlie Hunnam, Actor

"Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"I've seen it too many times in Hollywood. Talking about a relationship in public can jinx it. And if you have your picture taken together, you might as well start packing your bags"

Gina Gershon, Actress

"I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood"

Brion James, Actor

"Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out"

C. S. Forester, Novelist

"Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do"

Anthony Anderson, Actor

"In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for"

Anthony Michael Hall, Actor

"I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me"

Barbra Streisand, Actress

"For us, as actors, and even for the director, it gave us a sense of authenticity to what we were doing because we were talking about Hollywood and we were in Hollywood"

Berenice Bejo, Actress

"Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures"

Alex Cox, Director

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