Hollywood Quotes · Page 51

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I don't need Hollywood. With or without them, I'll be fine. But I'll admit it would be nice to have them on…

— Russell Peters

“The key to being a great agent is treating everyone like a celebrity and treating a celebrity like everyone else.”

— Michael Houbrick

As long as it is supported by Democratic politicians and by liberal Hollywood players, censorship is a useful tool to stifle dissent.

— Andrew Breitbart

I think the only value of 'Hotel Rwanda' is the fact that it keeps the Rwandan genocide alive, but as far as…

— Romeo Dallaire

I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the…

— Octavia Spencer

Harrison Ford is absolutely amazing. He is a Hollywood icon, and just to work with him was absolutely incredible.

— Carly Schroeder

I'm a Southern WASP, and I just don't fit in Hollywood - I can't get hired for anything here.

— Joe Don Baker

Most Americans in both red and blue states reject and resent the message being sent by Hollywood and some in the media…

— Trent Lott

We're told that independent film lovers... folks that are used to watching art house films, won't come out and see a film…

— Ava DuVernay

I was never that into the movies. Never. Even as a youngster. I became interested in movie music only because of the…

— John Williams

The BFI recently did a study of the British films that have the most people of color in them in the last…

— Noel Clarke

When you're dealing with Hollywood people, it creates a tight, tense atmosphere through the whole thing. And I don't like to work…

— Takashi Miike

It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be…

— Ann Macbeth

Behind the ambitious, creative talent that is Hollywood lies a darker side of the entertainment industry little appreciated by the ordinary moviegoer.…

— Harry Shearer

I could hire every producer in Hollywood - 2,000 producers, let's say - and they couldn't come up with all the soap…

— Jerry Jones

There's nothing really original. Alien was a B-movie. Five directors passed on it before me. Because I was into Heavy Metal, I…

— Ridley Scott

When I first covered [presidential election ] in 2008, I was asking questions for kids around the world, but mainly for myself.…

— Lily Collins

The first house I bought was a little Spanish bungalow on Clinton Street in West Hollywood, right behind the Improv. I was…

— Ellen DeGeneres

There you see how absurd the reactions of the so-called markets are. For a long time, Italy was run by one of…

— Martin Schulz

Imagine if Lin-Manuel Miranda had tried to do 'Hamilton' first in Hollywood. They would have told him, 'The forefathers weren't Latino or…

— John Leguizamo

“Project Hollywood was bringing me out of my solipsistic shell. It was giving me the resources I needed to be a leader;…

— Neil Strauss

I don't know what the misconceptions are, but I approach a small budget, artsy, independent movie in the same way as a…

— Olga Kurylenko

In Hollywood, maybe only ten percent will make it and the other ninety percent try. This elusive dream of making it and…

— Conrad Hall

Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up…

— Elizabeth McGovern

Hollywood screwed up in the past. They made Asians the other - a separate group that could only hang out with each…

— Lana Condor

Ryan Murphy's 'Hollywood,' about the beginnings of the film industry, made me laugh and cry.

— Scarlett Moffatt

My favourite actor is Daniel Day Lewis. He's the finest actor in Hollywood. I've studied his performances.

— Sushant Singh Rajput

There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard.

— James Caan

And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.

— Skitch Henderson

I think it's sad, and weird, and strange that [race in casting] is still a thing. It's 2013. Somebody else needs to…

— Shonda Rhimes

My idea is to integrate black stars into mainstream stars. It hasn't been explored properly. That's what Im doing in Hollywood.

— Russell Simmons

In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce.

— Dan Dailey

In Hollywood, if you have any success, you have this fear: What do you have to do to hang onto it?

— David Caruso

I think Hollywood has seen what fandom can do for a project. You can definitely see that when you go to Comic-con.

— Felicia Day

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

— Walter Winchell

I've never been more aware of my Asianness and femaleness than working in Hollywood.

— Lana Condor

Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.

— Jean-Luc Godard

I got around a lot, and lots of people talked to me. I salted down stories by the barrel load.

— Hedda Hopper

Hollywood is in control of politics and has imported their action-filled movie scripts into the real world.

— Kim Dotcom