Hollywood Quotes

"I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood"

"Acting coaches in Hollywood were always telling me to use my hands and body more. But that was never me. I just breathe and sometimes it doesn't look as if I'm doing that"

Perry Como, Musician

"Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood"

Gloria Swanson, Actress

"It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity"

Peter Bart, Editor

"I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it"

Mickey Spillane, Author

"Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing"

Michelangelo Antonioni, Director

"I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most"

Richard Linklater, Director

"Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns"

Tab Hunter, Actor

"I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology"

Gavin Bryars, Composer

"I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last"

Alan Ladd, Actor

"Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened"

Patricia Richardson, Actress

"I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art"

Diane Lane, Actress

"It's so crazy in Hollywood"

David Spade, Actor

"My husband is someone who's in the real world. It's a big help that I don't have both feet in Hollywood"

Jeri Ryan, Actress

"In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers"

Hoagy Carmichael, Composer

"In Hollywood you can't even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they're always showing people smoking. I don't get it"

Gerald McRaney, Actor

"I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so"

Eddie Marsan, Actor

"I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie"

Natasha Henstridge, Actress

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

Jeri Ryan, Actress

"Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse"

Cesar Romero, Actor

"There are so many things I'd like to change in the industry. Everything from the reliance of style over substance to their reluctance to hire me for big budget blockbusters, but the thing I would love most would be if they understood people don't have to be Hollywood beautiful to be sexy or interesting"

Colin Mochrie, Actor

"There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does"

Dean Martin, Actor

"I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them"

Armand Assante, Actor

"They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money"

Adam Garcia, Actor

"Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department"

Ann Sothern, Actress

"My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that"

Tony Goldwyn, Actor

"I tell you, I'm really not what you'd call into your basic kink, even though we do live in Hollywood, which is a little bit like living in a box of granola"

McLean Stevenson, Actor

"Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet"

Sam Elliott, Actor

"Hollywood is kind of a bad world"

Mia Maestro, Actress

"And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days"

Kitty Carlisle, Musician

"I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story"

Sidney Sheldon, Novelist

"I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree"

Peter Sarsgaard, Actor

"Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are"

Bonnie Hunt, Actress

"When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood"

Jeffrey Hunter, Actor

"People in Hollywood don't have that much sex, or at least I don't"

Rosario Dawson, Actress

"I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star"

Anna May Wong, Actress

"I'm sure those rumors are spread, but it's just ah - we're really good friend. We've been since day one in Hollywood. In class, we've been together in school. We've gotten really close, but I don't know about the more than friends stuff"

Scotty McCreery, Musician

"I didn't come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don't want to be considered a cool actor - I want to be a great actor"

Tom Sizemore, Actor

"It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine"

William Wyler, Director

"I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit"

Tony Goldwyn, Actor

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