I was obsessed with Hollywood from the time I was a kid. I always knew I wanted to live in Los Angeles. — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
I look at going to Hollywood as going behind enemy lines. You parachute in, set up the explosion, then fly out before… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Three weeks into being in Hollywood, I was playing with Slash through an ad in the paper. — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
Our kids are in a little band, and they like to play video games, and my wife and I do our best… — Justin Chambers Copy Share Image
Show business can be an addiction. ... An audience would laugh at me one night, and I would chase that high for… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
I never made films like kind of career moves, like making this film in order to make that film in order to… — Pawel Pawlikowski Copy Share Image
I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment. — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
Hollywood would much prefer the author be dead, so that they can buy the book and do what they want to do… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Hollywood was merely a specialized bank—a consortium of large financial entities that hired talent, almost always for a flat rate, ordered that… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I'm an actress, I live in L.A., I work in Hollywood. But I've learned that if you're too skinny, they'll say something… — Jennifer Love Hewitt Copy Share Image
The good part of working in TV is it's like being a studio director in old Hollywood and approaching different genres. It's… — Mary Harron Copy Share Image
I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant… — Sherilyn Fenn Copy Share Image
The culture now in television is that the presenter calls the financial and, increasingly, the creative shots. It is comparable to what… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
Though I soon became typecast in Hollywood as a gangster and hoodlum, I was originally a dancer, an Irish hoofer, trained in… — James Cagney Copy Share Image
“Because our nation is stupid and Hollywood is coarse, there is no one to tell us of the deep and extraordinary beauty… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't want to alienate half… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
We are owned by propagandists against the Arabs. There's no question about that. Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie.… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I have a very simple mantra and it's this: I want to make black cinema with the power, beauty, and alienation of… — Arthur Jafa Copy Share Image
When I came to Hollywood, I would take the opportunity to get to know George Stevens or Willy Wyler or Billy Wilder… — Warren Beatty Copy Share Image
My first book, Fast Forward, was about growing up in the shadow of Hollywood and how kids are affected by the culture… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
I'd like to refocus everyone's attention away from the Kardashians and onto Doctors Without Borders or aid workers. Let's redefine scandal. Scandal… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
Historically it has been a touchy subject, especially in the south where I am from, people don't really talk about it. If… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
As good as NFL Films is at making players human, it's even better at making players superhuman. No Hollywood studio has made… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore are two of the most charming A-listers in Hollywood. — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals. — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am… — Hattie McDaniel Copy Share Image
This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her. — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
One says also, it is one of the most faithful men in Hollywood, and makes again more interesting it equal. — Michelle Hunziker Copy Share Image
It's always been my dream, it's always been my vision to work as an actor in Hollywood, in drag and out of… — Shangela Copy Share Image
My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up. — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood — Kathleen Turner Copy Share Image
By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end,… — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time. — Wilson Mizner Copy Share Image
I don't think people are interested in my personal life. I've never had a Hollywood life. I've always been a worker. — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
People in Hollywood can condescend to the way a lot of other people are living. — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins, — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world. — Chris O'Dowd Copy Share Image
Everything you have ever heard about the strangeness of Hollywood is true! — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood? — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
