Hollywood Quotes · Page 49

The Beatles and the Stones had Elvis and Hollywood, but when it came to my generation America meant Richard Nixon and Vietnam.

— Mick Hucknall

Dark, subtle, complex, wicked - if only Hollywood movies were half as interesting as Hollywood accounting.

— Stephen Metcalf

You know, marriage is making a big comeback. I know personally that in Hollywood people are marrying people they never married before.

— Bob Hope

I want to be involved in work I'm proud of and has a good message, and that Hollywood hasn't really seen before.

— Iman Vellani

Cheerleading was my way in. It was one of the most rigorous audition processes ever. It definitely groomed me for Hollywood.

— Sarah Shahi

MOVIE STAR, a Hollywood resident who cannot live in the institution of marriage -- but doesn't mind frequent visits

— Nikhil Saluja

I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.

— Jack Nicholson

Hollywood's not a progressive place. Everyone likes to think that Hollywood is hip, but it's not hip at all.

— Sinbad

The power of story and the power of a well-crafted film or television show is really all you need to speak to…

— Jordan Peele

“Hollywood is McWorld's storyteller, and it inculcates secularism, passivity, consumerism, vicariousness, impulse buying, and an accelerated pace of life, not as a…

— Benjamin R. Barber

I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the…

— Enrico Colantoni

Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the…

— Ann Beattie

It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a…

— Peter Bart

Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very…

— Larry Wilmore

I think Hollywood's gotten more reactionary and conservative over the years, because there's no longer art in Hollywood. Art suffers in Hollywood.

— Ricky Gervais

Live your life, experience something, and then you're going to have a lot of things to say. But if you hang around…

— Luc Besson

Why is Dave Chappelle going to Africa? Why does Mariah Carey make a hundred-million dollar deal and take her clothes off on…

— Dave Chappelle

It was a pity that movies and live TV left New York for Hollywood. London theater, movies, television - until (Britain's) money…

— Gore Vidal

From a young age, [James Baldwin] was watching all those different films. He's watching John Wayne killing off the Indians. He came…

— Raoul Peck

The problem that we have is the President himself- a President who prides himself on his own weakness and incompetence and whose…

— Femi Fani-Kayode

When I was a Hollywood press agent, I learned how the Hollywood casting system worked. There was a roster of actors who…

— Richard Condon

My hope is to see people of color in roles that do not emphasize race. Often times when movies are centered around…

— Amandla Stenberg

The flood will lift the ghosts from the Hollywood lawn cemetery and they will disappear like ether in the now dead air.…

— Robert Montgomery

Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different…

— Paula Patton

Don't be discouraged if you think you're not a great writer because terrible writers are successful in Hollywood

— David Seltzer

The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.

— D. B. Sweeney

I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror.…

— Rain

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

— Tom Sizemore

I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business.

— Mike Farrell

Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job.

— John Williams

Im the only person living in Hollywood who A) does not want to act, and B) cannot act

— Victoria Beckham

That's the thing about being part of a Hollywood production. You always have to give your best performance, no matter the odds.

— Iko Uwais

Whatever God gave you, you have to work that to your best ability - especially out here in Hollywood, the land of…

— Michael Clarke Duncan

Back in the 1970s, it was mostly all-black audiences coming into the theaters. So, we presented stories they could relate to.

— Rudy Ray Moore

I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.

— Lee Remick

Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card.

— Cameron Crowe

When I got to Hollywood, there wasn't even a Boulevard. I'm that old. It was just a little dirt trail. I'm kidding.

— Adam West

I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals.

— Julie Harris

Ever since there's been a Hollywood, they remake a movie every 20 years.

— Julianne Moore

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies

— Chris Kattan