"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"
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The pivot to “Hollywood beautiful” reframes the grievance from career frustration to cultural critique. Mochrie isn’t asking for pity or demanding a pedestal; he’s exposing how narrowly Hollywood defines desirability, and how that definition polices who gets to be seen as compelling. “Sexy or interesting” is a deliberately provocative pairing: it insists that attraction and narrative worth are intertwined in casting decisions, and that exclusion isn’t just aesthetic, it’s economic and imaginative.
Coming from an improv icon known for quick wit rather than glossy stardom, the line reads as both personal and strategic. Mochrie leverages his public persona - the charming everyman, the anti-movie-star - to call out a system that confuses charisma with symmetry. The subtext is blunt: if audiences can laugh with me, they can follow me, desire me, root for me. Hollywood just hasn’t bothered to try.
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Mochrie, Colin. (n.d.). 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. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/there-are-so-many-things-id-like-to-change-in-the-140447/
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Mochrie, Colin. "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." FixQuotes. Accessed February 3, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/there-are-so-many-things-id-like-to-change-in-the-140447/.
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"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." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/there-are-so-many-things-id-like-to-change-in-the-140447/. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.







