Hollywood Quotes · Page 79

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

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

— Groucho Marx

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

— Bela Lugosi

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

— Gene Tierney

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

— Jennifer Connelly

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

— Eric Garcetti

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

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

— David Oyelowo

For Hollywood to make 'Spider-Man,' only to redo the movie a couple years later, just boggles the mind. To recast 'The Incredible…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

A lot of Hollywood films tend to be bloated, bombastic, loud. At the same time, I do like the infrastructure of making…

— David Yates

I thought I'd give myself 10 years as an entertainment journalist and build up so much clout that there was no way…

— Rod Lurie

This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves…

— Angela Bassett

It was extremely useful to grow up in front of the camera. It gives the camera no significance. I think it helped…

— Giovanni Ribisi

To me the industry has always said that the lovers and haters and principal characters will always be white in Hollywood, and…

— Haile Gerima

When I came to Hollywood, I spoke no English - except nobody bullied me. Every day, I had nothing to do except…

— Jackie Chan

When I first came to Hollywood, I played about as many guys who save the day and get the girl as I…

— Powers Boothe

The endless teen franchises that come out of Hollywood... more often than not, the central character doesn't have any discernible character traits.…

— Taron Egerton

I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from…

— Carla Gugino

Calvin: Trick or Treat! Adult: Where's your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an…

— Bill Watterson

Johnny Rivers...returned to L.A. to accept a lucrative offer from Elmer Valentine to open at his lavish new nightclub based upon the…

— Glenn A. Baker

There's been an amazing backlash for the last decade in America: political correctness. In many ways, I think that, while we've been…

— Ivan Reitman

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem…

— James Wolcott

If you have a career like mine, which is so identified with Hollywood, with big studios and stars, you wonder if maybe…

— Sydney Pollack

It was just a wonderful experience, one for the memory book for sure. The sad thing about it was that the picture…

— Curtis Hanson

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

— Desson Thomson

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

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

— Argus Hamilton

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

— Gerard Depardieu

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

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

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

— Patti Smith

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

— George Eads

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

— Kim Dotcom

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

— Hedda Hopper

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

— Jean-Luc Godard

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

— Lana Condor

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

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

— Skitch Henderson

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

— Walter Winchell