Hollywood Quotes · Page 79

In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.

— Adam McKay

Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.

— Michael Medved

I have two little black boys. And a film like 'Do the Right Thing' can help illuminate the times for them with…

— Salim Akil

There are plenty of lesbians in Hollywood, but they're not out. And that's their choice, but I can't do that, it's too…

— Jill Bennett

There is no franchise in Hollywood filmmaking that is as consistently good, and as consistently interesting, as 'Planet of the Apes.'

— Jamelle Bouie

I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.

— Barbra Streisand

I don't realize how rare it is to genuinely have sincere love for everyone you work with. Especially in Hollywood, but even…

— Eden Sher

My next film, 'The Prince Of Players,' was Hollywood's first turkey in CinemaScope - when CinemaScope was new and hotter than a…

— Richard Burton

I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between…

— Barbara Hershey

They yell at me to be dignified. But what are the dignified people like? The people who are held up as examples…

— Clara Bow

I saw how you could get away with such a free-spirited, naturalistic sensibility in a mainstream Hollywood movie, and you could apply…

— David Gordon Green

There’s something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It’s a different perspective. It is…

— Ava DuVernay

When you know who you are, you know who you are. That's the real dangerous thing in Hollywood, because they all want…

— Paul Mooney

I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces…

— George R. R. Martin

Hollywood producers aren't going to say, 'Get me that swearing, grey-haired, headless chicken. We need him for our new 'High School Musical'…

— Peter Capaldi

Hollywood doesn't believe in the death penalty for anyone except people who get cable TV without paying for it. Hollywood is like…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I try to respect the rules of the silent movies and I tried to make signification to make sense, and also the…

— Michel Hazanavicius

And so you try your best. Sometimes you go in with one thing, with one desire and come out with something else.…

— Martin Scorsese

What I've found after doing over 200 celebrity readings on 'Hollywood Medium' is that everyone is looking for the same thing, it…

— Tyler Henry

I'm sure there are people in Hollywood, whose main drive in film is to make money, who will feel that any use…

— Woody Allen

They go on about banning size zero, but I think Hollywood stars are the worst perpetrators. Most models are naturally long and…

— Twiggy

Even Hollywood millionaires are now clamoring for legal protections for their illegal-alien nannies and gardeners, though such elites would hardly countenance a…

— Victor Davis Hanson

You read these stories of people who were in Hollywood in the late '60s. After they found out about the murders, everybody…

— Karina Longworth

It's a fact, the majority of films in Hollywood are from the male perspective. And the female characters, very rarely do they…

— Jessica Chastain

Hollywood is all about making an entrance. I don't want to be a walking advertisement for anyone other than myself.

— Rose McGowan

I would be good for maybe not the center square but an upper square on 'Hollywood Squares.'

— John Hodgman

I feel like a realist about Hollywood. To be cynical about it is to some degree fair, but I don't think it's…

— Ti West

Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.

— Mira Nair

This really blew my mind, the fact that me, an over fed, long haired, leaping gnome, should be the star of a…

— Eric Burdon

Hollywood is a narcotic, not a stimulant. It wants to sell you something. Literature wants to tell you something.

— Rex Murphy

When I first moved to L.A., I went walking down the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and I would tell myself, 'One day,…

— Vanna White

Typical Hollywood crowd - all the kids are on drugs, and all the adults are on roller skates.

— Eric Idle

We have such respect for the English that, when an Englishman says Hollywood sucks, people listen.

— Elaine May

Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.

— Marlon Brando

I am in awe of Hrithik Roshan. He is so fabulous. He is like an all-rounder. I think he deserves to be…

— Sridevi

By the time I got 'Suits,' I thought my time in Hollywood was coming to an end.

— Patrick J. Adams

I don't need a trailer; I don't need to have the luxuries of what is Hollywood, which is why I'm probably not…

— Vicky McClure

It's a mistake for Hollywood to impose themselves on the gaming space. Not only is it arrogant, but it hasn't really worked.

— Gore Verbinski

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

— Robert Duvall

You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.

— Rainn Wilson