In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't…

Film is universal. All the countries of the world are making films. Hollywood is the only major unsubsidized center for films. To my knowledge…

— Frank Capra

Frankly, I find it very odd that, in a population that's more than 50 per cent of women, that Hollywood isn't producing more movies…

— Phyllida Lloyd

I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn't the best place to grow up.

— Samuel Goldwyn

Hollywood isn't ready for an Indian leading man.

— Irrfan Khan

Hollywood isn't a place, it's a way of life.

— Helene Hanff

There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that…

— Barry Jenkins

I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.

— David Mamet

Hollywood isn't exactly dragging me, or even aware of me.

— Guy Maddin

Hollywood isn't your cesspool, America. It's your mirror.

— Bill Maher

Well, Hollywood isn't made up of individual studio heads anymore. It's made of corporations. And corporations are looking for the bottom line. They don't…

— Frank Oz

“In Hollywood, it isn't how old you are. It's how old you pretend to be.”

— Marshall Thornton

North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.

— Elizabeth McGovern

That's what you want to do as an actor and as an artist: move an audience.

— Michael McElhatton

The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful…

— Terrence Howard

The greatest thing in the world as an actor or an artist to connect.

— Charlie Plummer