Hollywood Quotes

"You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well"

"Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures"

"People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized"

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

"In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly"

Catherine Zeta-Jones, Actress

"It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and it will expand into more than one production house"

Ann Macbeth, Author

"You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different"

Bai Ling, Actress

"In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel"

Ben Hecht, Writer

"Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle"

Ben Hecht, Writer

"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"

Barry Levinson, Director

"In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world"

Allan Sherman, Musician

"The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff"

Anita Diament, Author

"Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch"

Dennis Miller, Comedian

"I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is"

Francesca Annis, Actress

"Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood"

Claudia Cardinale, Actress

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

Claudia Cardinale, Actress

"In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet"

Will Smith, Actor

"I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know"

Peter Stone, Writer

"I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios"

Skitch Henderson, Musician

"I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood"

Eddie Bracken, Actor

"Maybe when I'm 75 and living in the south of France, after everyone I want to bitch about is already dead, then I may want to talk about my life in Hollywood"

Tracey Ullman, Comedian

"So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals"

Shirley Knight, Actress

"You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors"

Owen Wilson, Actor

"How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?"

Leonard Slatkin, Celebrity

"I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that"

David Arquette, Actor

"You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else"

Priscilla Presley, Actress

"I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies"

Poppy Z. Brite, Author

"As a cop, I dealt with every kind of bum and criminal. They all have more integrity than some Hollywood people"

Joseph Wambaugh, Writer

"Once you've been booked, people in Hollywood say, 'Oh he must be good.' All the while you're the same actor"

Joel McHale, Comedian

"A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves"

Jennifer O'Neill, Actress

"Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!"

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

"I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know"

Milos Forman, Director

"I don't think I ever understood Hollywood"

Gloria Grahame, Actress

"I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress"

Stacey Dash, Actress

"Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be"

Trey Parker, Artist

"Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood"

Pauly Shore, Comedian

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