Hollywood Quotes · Page 43

People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person.

— Robert Redford

In American cinema, people will take a chance on you, though they'll often remind you that really, they always liked you.

— Kim Basinger

In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.

— Conrad Veidt

LL Cool J is very well known in Hollywood. He's an established commodity across several platforms, including motion pictures.

— Mike D

Steve Howey is probably the funniest man in Hollywood. For real. He is just that person that can make you laugh at…

— Shanola Hampton

So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.

— Kitty Carlisle

I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn't…

— Josh Henderson

I had tremendous success in show business - star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 'The Apprentice' was one of the most…

— Donald Trump

I've always been sort of entrepreneurial. ... I felt that I needed to learn how to write and produce so I could…

— Larry Wilmore

I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was…

— Don Cheadle

Real equality in films is going to take time and will directly reflect our society. So ladies, please speak up at home,…

— Barbara Crampton

The question now is does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don't think he'll raise it out of the New…

— Juan Williams

I don't think the Hollywood community is interested in what I can do. That's all right. I've never looked for a job…

— Mercedes McCambridge

Racism and prejudice exist there [at the National Film Board] like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy.…

— Alanis Obomsawin

My friends back from the East Coast jokingly call me 'Hollywood,' and they assume I'm out at Hollywood parties, but I'm a…

— Bill Lawrence

Sundance [festival] is all your Hollywood buds and buddies and rolling out and high-fiving and "Hell, yeah. Here comes the movie," and…

— David Gordon Green

I lived in Hollywood and, ironically, I didn't know you could just go out and get an agent and go on auditions…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to…

— Anonymous

I've been inspired by films since I started dancing, and I'm married to a filmmaker, and I think it was one of…

— Madonna Ciccone

It's such a funny thing. Hollywood is terrible unless you happen to be a celebrity who's a Republican. So Ronald Reagan can…

— Barry Levinson

People ask me about 'The Hurt Locker' a lot, and it's an incredible piece of filmmaking - as are 'Band of Brothers'…

— Sebastian Junger

I think I've developed into an actress because I've worked darn hard at it and I've learned a great deal from a…

— Veronica Lake

Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so…

— Anna Quindlen

Hollywood is more concerned about its male actors being in shape than its female actors.

— Vin Diesel

Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.

— Erica Jong

In Hollywood, you can't say anything bad about anybody or everyone is going to attack you.

— Chloe Sevigny

I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star.

— Anna May Wong

I always wanted to work for the CIA growing up. I'd be a CIA operative in Hollywood that made movies to manipulate…

— Spencer Pratt

How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?

— Leonard Slatkin

I wanted to conquer Hollywood. But I took one shot and that's it for me.

— Sammo Hung

... Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, two publications read more faithfully in Hollywood than the Koran is in Mecca.

— Jack Paar

There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.

— Harry Anderson

I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.

— Ennio Morricone

I'm sporting some really blonde hair because I live in Hollywood and I'm an actress.

— Sarah Paulson

All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique - that's not working any more.

— Anurag Kashyap

Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.

— Harry Morgan

Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking.

— Michael Ovitz

It's the nature of Hollywood that there are the people in power and the people who tell them what they want them…

— John Lasseter

Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp,

— Tom Clancy