Hollywood Quotes · Page 87

If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.

— Bette Davis

A lavish colored evocation of Hollywood now gone, as shown through an afternoon in the milieu of the 1920's film star.

— Kenneth Anger

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

— David Mamet

I'm a producer... I am a Hollywood producer. That is so weird. And it's not lame. But it's just like, how did…

— Matt Stone

There's like this great thing that Bette Davis said when someone asked her, "How do you get into Hollywood?" "Take Fountain!"

— Winona Ryder

I certainly immerse myself in as many crazy Hollywood events as I can because you never know where you can pick up…

— Kathy Griffin

Hollywood Regency is a label some people put on me, but I consider myself a modernist in that I always try to…

— Kelly Wearstler

Hollywood is a tough business and repeat rejection is very much part of the process.

— Sean Murray

The attempt is that we want to get a couple of minutes under our belt, depending on how good the tests are…

— Todd McFarlane

People can try to minimize what comes out of Hollywood and say, 'Oh, it's just entertainment,' but it has a tremendous effect…

— John MacArthur

If Hollywood is the global producer for [media] products all around the world, that's of concern. If all audiences around the world…

— Arthur Dong

If you do something and it proves to be a success, then people go 'get him to do that type of thing…

— Jack Davenport

So for front-runners we have a black and a woman. It's like being made to choose between syphilis or having and old…

— Zach Braff

I have so many good offers in my country or, let's say, in Europe. I just wait for the best offers, like…

— Sebastian Koch

I don't care how much hardware you throw at an audience. If they are not emotionally invested in the thing, it's zero.…

— Bill Paxton

I had decided after 'Hollow Man' to stay away from science fiction. I felt I had done so much science fiction. Four…

— Paul Verhoeven

The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves.…

— Sebastian Thrun

A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers…

— Tom Perrotta

I think there is a predisposition among Christians that Hollywood is anti-Jesus or anti-Christianity. I was warned I'd have to fight to…

— Clay Aiken

I don't think it's necessarily 100-percent true. But comic books have infiltrated the mainstream Hollywood in ways that I don't think I…

— Ryan Reynolds

I really don't understand why anyone would think that you have to be physically perfect to be in movies, because it's so…

— Charlize Theron

I think the possibilities are endless in terms of what the genre would be like. However, in terms of looking for sources…

— Ana Castillo

In my mind what novels do best is that they immerse us deeply into our character's world - they truly transport us…

— Junot Diaz

“In Hollywood, the real stars are all in animation. Alvin and the Chipmunks don't throw star fits, don't demand custom-designed Winnebagos, and…

— John Waters

I saw you in your car You were on your way to hollywood. So you could become beautiful somewhere else and I…

— Stephen Jerzak

I kept thinking that with all those first jobs, "This is the beginning of something!" And then nothing would happen. That's the…

— Tim Matheson

I'm not after having the lead or being in a blockbuster Hollywood film. I'm after reading the material and loving it. That's…

— Sofia Boutella

Really I'm just an actor. The only difference between me and those cats in Hollywood is that I write my own script.

— Jimi Hendrix

Hollywood is the only place where you can wake up in the morning and hear the birds coughing in the trees.

— Joe Frisco

People in Hollywood defer to what they know, which is a white lead, particularly in romantic comedies.

— Lana Condor

In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.

— Will Smith

Blaxploitation films were all about centering Black love, action, pathos and showing Black folks with agency.

— Jason Johnson

I've been in love with the cinema since childhood and it's a fantasy of mine to appear in a Hollywood movie.

— Bruno Tonioli

When you think of Hollywood, you think of the land of opportunity. I always want to have the opportunity to do things…

— Raekwon

I've always been an amazing Hollywood superstar...Everyone just doesn't know yet..

— My Mind Can Speak On It's Own

And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press.

— Patricia Heaton

I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter.

— Glenn Danzig

I mean, it's fun to go out and do stuff in Hollywood, but if it was gone tomorrow, I really wouldn't be…

— Lauren Conrad

Once you've been booked, people in Hollywood say, 'Oh he must be good.' All the while you're the same actor.

— Joel McHale

It's funny because Hollywood is such a small place that everyone really is less than 6 degrees of separation.

— Kevin Connolly