Hollywood Quotes · Page 40

L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

— Quentin Tarantino

That's how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello.

— Hedy Lamarr

I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York,…

— Sam Simon

I did not necessarily feel that Hollywood was interested in what I wanted to do. They wanted me to do what they…

— Patty Jenkins

Despite offers, I have never felt the urge to try to make it in Hollywood.

— David Jason

“The measuring stick of success in Hollywood is covered in shit at both ends”

— Dean Cavanagh

What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this…

— Hattie McDaniel

Money spent by Hollywood to fight piracy: hundreds of millions of dollars.

— Lexi Alexander

Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in…

— Douglas Fairbanks, Jr

Asking Hollywood to begin to show some restraint and balance in its antireligious fury is not the same as suggesting that the…

— Michael Medved

It's almost an addiction that some people have to what I call the perfection that Hollywood presents of successful, beautiful, fun-loving people.

— Rush Limbaugh

“Plus, not casting white people in roles for people of color is the correct thing to do. It’s not a noble or…

— Joseph Fink

I kind of like things slightly out of tune. It makes me feel... intoxicated almost... but in a good way. Like I'm…

— Christine Anderson

A hit show takes Hollywood magic indeed, but it also takes a lot of math and science, plus the study of polls…

— Kristoffer Polaha

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure,…

— Dirk Benedict

From last century's 'The Birth of a Nation' to this century's 'Gods and Generals,' Hollywood has likely done more than any other…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

You have more and more people coming into the tent with the creative guys [on Hollywood films]. You have marketing and concept…

— James L. Brooks

How do you know Hollywood is getting serious about video games? They want to make one of their own. In 'Defiance,' the…

— Rob Manuel

“If you can get past those awful idiot faces on the bleachers outside the theater without a sense of the collapse of…

— Raymond Chandler

When I started, there were no Indians on television or films, except for Sir Ben Kingsley. I was an actor in high…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

I love doing movies, but right now, television is the way Hollywood was in the late '60s and early '70s. The dream…

— Patton Oswalt

He's brilliant. At first, I thought, 'Oh, is he going to be Hollywood stud-like?' But he's a really kind, wonderful person. He…

— Kate Winslet

For a good workout, I go to At One Fitness in North Hollywood, where my trainer, Jon Allsop, puts me through it…

— Tim DeKay

The thing that I've run up against is that it's always been an either-or proposition, especially in Hollywood. You're either young and…

— Kathy Bates

Hollywood is all made up, anyway. Especially the stories and angles that people want to pin on you.

— Nick Nolte

I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick.

— Janeane Garofalo

Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.

— Nick Mancuso

I like movies, action movies. I definitely would be an actor in Hollywood.

— Tyrann Mathieu

The Kissing Booth' was the first film I ever made - it was sort of my ticket to Hollywood, so I was…

— Jacob Elordi

We have our own ocean, we've got a great bike trail - I love riding all the way to the turnaround at…

— Joe Maddon

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

— Wilson Mizner

Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We've all experienced that, in one way or another.

— Vin Diesel

In 'Play Misty For Me', its inexplicably assertive knife-woman nearly manages the impossible task of slaughtering Clint Eastwood.

— Andrew Tudor

Being a young woman is difficult enough, but add to that the pressures of Hollywood's spotlight, and you have a lot to…

— Amanda de Cadenet

I do think that failure begets success sometimes, but it's often looked upon in Hollywood as not a good thing.

— John Kapelos

We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can…

— Yahoo Serious

Cary Grant, born Archie Leach, was a poor boy who could barely spell posh. That's acting for you-or maybe Hollywood.

— Melvin Maddocks

Some of the scripts I hear are completely useless. Sometimes, they're copies of very bad Hollywood films.

— Kashmira Shah

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

— Michael Medved

Typecasting is really rampant in Hollywood, and because I played a costumed character and did it successfully, it was a real stigma.

— Adam West