Hollywood Quotes · Page 77

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

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

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

— Anna May Wong

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

— Chloe Sevigny

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

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

— Vin Diesel

Typical horror movies of the 1930s were often given a period setting in what looked like a kind of stylized 19th century...…

— Andrew Tudor

I didn't go to the special screening on a spaceship where everybody goes to have their special screenings...Everybody knows that's what happens…

— John Krasinski

Satisfying as that 'Cabaret' role was, it is not the only thing I do. But Hollywood is somewhat limited in its perspective…

— Joel Grey

In one sense, I felt not seen and heard enough as a child. At the very same time, I'm watching her and…

— Daphne Zuniga

I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and…

— Sanaa Lathan

To some degree, Hollywood doesn't know what to do with me because the characters I do are so different. But hopefully, that…

— Sharlto Copley

The idea of making a film - a film that I had certainly never seen before - about the slave experience was…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move…

— Juliette Binoche

A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because…

— Nora Ephron

The whole Hollywood conception of Tibet as this peace-loving country denies the complex humanity of the Tibetan people. Their ideas exist in…

— Pankaj Mishra

“[A] new finding shows that while in the 1940s, three-quarters of those surveyed claimed to dream in black and white, today, three-quarters…

— Katherine A. Fowkes

I can tell you as a fact that if you'd asked anyone in Hollywood one year before 'Pirates of the Caribbean' had…

— Dean Devlin

It's a lot easier to make a living as a writer in Hollywood than it was probably 10 years ago, though there's…

— Ed Brubaker

If you put on a lousy production with white actors, it's lousy. There is a problem, or can be, at this stage…

— Howard Schultz

I would love nothing more than me and my family getting green cards, going to L.A. for a year, sitting down with…

— Kim Dotcom

When you do what I've done - the normal Hollywood way, where you let people do things for you - and then…

— Stephen Baldwin

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

— Erica Jong

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

— Kitty Carlisle

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

The whole ridiculousness of black Hollywood - there is no black Hollywood. It's every man for himself.

— Janet Hubert

It was mostly an aura about him (Gene Kelly). For me he was Hollywood. The way I'd imagined it as a child.

— Catherine Deneuve

I never would have guessed Hawaii or Hollywood would be able to provide me with one of my dreams.

— Evangeline Lilly

There's a tendency in this Hollywood machinery to take on too much. You end up not being able to give everything you…

— Charlie Hunnam

You've got to be really careful that you're not falling into the Hollywood trap, you know?

— Joel Edgerton

Sure, you make money writing on the coast ... but that money is like so much compressed snow. It goes so fast…

— Dorothy Parker

It's very difficult to get your ideas to Hollywood if you're the average Joe or Jane. An agent wouldn't bother with you.

— Bruce Nash

When you're black in Hollywood, you know, your first role is going to be on a crime drama. That's - everybody knows…

— Terry Crews

There's nothing worse than Hollywood when you're on the way down. It has a way of telling you, 'Mamie, get out. You've…

— Mamie Van Doren

We just recently saw Bruno Mars at the Hollywood Bowl, and he was incredible.

— Bebe Rexha

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my…

— Elvis Presley

As for Hollywood, there was an offer. But I declined to do it because of certain moral and ethical values.

— Suriya