Hollywood Quotes · Page 51

The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but…

— William Faulkner

Jackie Chan is like an older brother to me, he's so supportive. He opened all the doors for me in Hollywood.

— Mallika Sherawat

As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.

— Christian Marclay

I would love to do another hockey movie. There are a lot of people in Hollywood looking for the right hockey script.

— D. B. Sweeney

Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous.

— Steven Spielberg

I just wanted to do hair in the movies and in Hollywood, and made it work.

— Howard Berger

For a long time, I think my family thought I was living in a $3 million mansion in the Hollywood Hills.

— Judy Greer

In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.

— Adam McKay

There seems to be a notion in Hollywood that if you want to make money, you have to sacrifice doing good work…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find…

— Robert Rodriguez

I do not proactively approach Hollywood, but also I do not always turn down offers. But since I'm living as a movie…

— Takashi Miike

Hollywood was set up by a bunch of businessmen. They do not see their job as being philanthropists. I don't think it's…

— Sydney Pollack

Hollywood is called Hollywood, but holly doesn't grow there. Right from the start it's based on a lie. But it's a very…

— Jarvis Cocker

Number one rule in Hollywood is to maintain relationships with successful people, and you may find yourself involved in some very cool…

— David Hayter

I'm not anti-Hollywood; not at all. In fact, I'm rather fascinated by everything that goes on here. When I get hold of…

— Paul Morrissey

Hollywood is a factory. You have to realize that you are working in a factory and you're part of the mechanism. If…

— Mel Gibson

I couldn't get a job acting all the time and there were down periods where I could take photographs or paint. I…

— Dennis Hopper

Some ISPs are blocking all BitTorrent traffic, because BitTorrent can be used to share files in a piratical way. Hollywood lobbying groups…

— Wil Wheaton

When you look at how men and women are living together, there are two processes at work. One, women are rising in…

— Stephen Marche

I studied cinema at the university so I had a very classical approach to it. I studied all those silent films, and…

— Gaspard Ulliel

I'm not this big Hollywood mainstream actress, but who cares? I think I just have a certain sensibility for smaller projects. I…

— Melonie Diaz

The wise screen writer is he who wears his second-best suit, artistically speaking, and doesn't take things too much to heart. He…

— Raymond Chandler

Hollywood has to start finding more original stuff They've got to start by not depending on, 'What can we churn back out?…

— Michael Bay

I have been waiting around to get the right script and the right director. For example, in the past, if a Hollywood…

— Gong Li

I have two little black boys. And a film like 'Do the Right Thing' can help illuminate the times for them with…

— Salim Akil

Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.

— Michael Medved

There are plenty of lesbians in Hollywood, but they're not out. And that's their choice, but I can't do that, it's too…

— Jill Bennett

I don't realize how rare it is to genuinely have sincere love for everyone you work with. Especially in Hollywood, but even…

— Eden Sher

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

— Barbra Streisand

There is no franchise in Hollywood filmmaking that is as consistently good, and as consistently interesting, as 'Planet of the Apes.'

— Jamelle Bouie

My next film, 'The Prince Of Players,' was Hollywood's first turkey in CinemaScope - when CinemaScope was new and hotter than a…

— Richard Burton

I would be good for maybe not the center square but an upper square on 'Hollywood Squares.'

— John Hodgman

Hollywood is all about making an entrance. I don't want to be a walking advertisement for anyone other than myself.

— Rose McGowan

I feel like a realist about Hollywood. To be cynical about it is to some degree fair, but I don't think it's…

— Ti West

When I first moved to L.A., I went walking down the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and I would tell myself, 'One day,…

— Vanna White

Hollywood is a narcotic, not a stimulant. It wants to sell you something. Literature wants to tell you something.

— Rex Murphy

This really blew my mind, the fact that me, an over fed, long haired, leaping gnome, should be the star of a…

— Eric Burdon

Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.

— Mira Nair

We have such respect for the English that, when an Englishman says Hollywood sucks, people listen.

— Elaine May

Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.

— Marlon Brando