Hollywood Quotes · Page 52

I grew up in San Francisco and moved to L.A. about 20 years ago, and now my main home is in Hollywood.

— Roman Coppola

I thought actors were born in Hollywood. I didn't know how to go about it.

— George Eads

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

— Patti Smith

Hollywood exists only for the B-movies. The best things are coming from Europe.

— Gerard Depardieu

Canada's a small market. I think sometimes we do too much of supporting American stories in Hollywood and not enough supporting our…

— Mena Massoud

If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to…

— George A. Romero

There's no shortage of attention junkies with large breasts in Hollywood but only Michael Moore's are real.

— Argus Hamilton

Considering how pervasive interracial marriage is, certainly in American society, it is rare we get to see it depicted on film.

— David Oyelowo

African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler…

— Lynn Nottage

It would be disingenuous of me to blanket-ly love everything a woman has produced simply to make a statement that we're all…

— Mindy Kaling

We were so focused on the production aspect of it that it wasn't until later in our college experience that we realized…

— Ross Duffer

I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without…

— Quentin Tarantino

Hollywood is this big mirror to society and more importantly, we are the big progressive mirror to society. We are supposed to…

— E. R. Fightmaster

Hollywood in the 1930s is an incredible period of history. There are so many amazing stories about the stars and the studios…

— Lily Collins

I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look…

— John Grisham

At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their…

— Bob Hope

There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and…

— Neill Blomkamp

I like to go to England, and I'll tell you why. I like to go to a country where I am considered…

— Greg Proops

I can go to my premiere at the Chinese Theatre, and everyone will know me, and everyone will cater to me. And…

— Lilly Singh

Hope is a key ingredient in what drives creativity - the hope of bringing to life what exists in the imagination, of…

— Bonnie Hammer

There is a perversion, much practised in Hollywood movies, that might be called sado-paternalism, whereby a surrogate father treats a gifted but…

— Philip French

Yes, I'm blonde. When I started as an actor, because of the accent and my body and my personality, it was not…

— Sofia Vergara

I heard, one of my producers told me this story where like the Hollywood studios brought all these high-end consultants in to…

— Joseph Kosinski

I have to say, Any Given Sunday was good, but it was too ambitious. You can't do everything in three hours. It…

— Terry Crews

In Hollywood, the system is so streamlined, the administration is in place. That's why every six months Spielberg is able to make…

— Rajkumar Hirani

In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation.

— Desson Thomson

I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.

— Jennifer Connelly

I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.

— Gene Tierney

I came to Hollywood to be a movie song-and-dance man just at the time those films were going out of style.

— Ken Berry

I think everyone has the impression that L.A. is Hollywood and fast lives. That couldn't be further from the truth.

— Eric Garcetti

One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have…

— Bette Davis

Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed. Bela Lugosi.

— Bela Lugosi

Ever since they found out that Lassie was a boy, the public has believed the worst about Hollywood

— Groucho Marx

If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they…

— Mark Steyn

The misconception about Hollywood is that it's a crazy drug and alcohol fueled place. It can be but there's also a huge…

— Tom Arnold

I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.

— Damien Chazelle

It's rare to see a person of colour in a lead role. It does matter to a lot of people.

— Alesha Dixon

Movie studios, Hollywood studios, by and large are not making the kind of movies that I go to see.

— Nicholas Meyer

Blacks are tired of seeing whites saying, 'I understand you.' You need a black to direct a black film.

— Melvin Van Peebles

I will never go back to Hollywood. It was like a nightmare. I enjoyed it at the time, but I wanted to…

— Lee Evans