Hollywood Quotes · Page 85

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

— Melvin Van Peebles

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

— Alesha Dixon

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

— Damien Chazelle

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

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

That's sort of like what real life is like in Hollywood. You need stars to gain financing.

— Harvey Keitel

I don't even take myself seriously, so how could I possibly take Hollywood seriously?

— Brittany Murphy

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

— Erica Jong

After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and…

— Phillip Noyce

Bette Davis taught Hollywood to follow an actress instead of the actress following the camera, and she's probably the best movie actress…

— Elaine Stritch

I got engaged, married, and divorced in 15 months in Hollywood, so, you know what I'm saying? We're out here putting rings…

— Mod Sun

I guess you go back to the old writer's adage that when they do your stuff in Hollywood, you smile sweetly upon…

— Chris Claremont

I'd just like to thank everybody who was involved in the film, especially Brendan Gleeson and Ruaidhrí Conroy. And Ruaidhrí, I'm sorry…

— Martin McDonagh

Over the years, many producers have come and gone, and screenplays were written and abandoned. It's the Hollywood process. It's hard to…

— Lawrence Blume

Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood ... Life elsewhere was real and slippery and struggled in the…

— Mae West

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

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

Hopefully, you'll be able to find enough of an audience, each time, that you can keep working, rather than getting caught up…

— Sharlto Copley

I went to Hollywood. I put the action in Hollywood. I watched a lot of movies, maybe 100 or something close to…

— Michel Hazanavicius

My first memoir, 'Home,' was about my childhood, early training and formative years in the Theater, i am so pleased that my…

— Julie Andrews

Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the…

— Bruno Dumont

Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls.

— Julia Phillips

“We could debate whether movies reflect or create the reality. It's clear to me they do both.”

— alex tizon

To get on in Hollywood, you've gotta be a bit gay and a bit Jewish, and I'm saving up to be Jewish.

— Vinnie Jones

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.

— Robert De Niro

Wedding films are always about the differences between people. But they haven't quite dealt with African-Americans and Latinos.

— Rick Famuyiwa

You know, I'm not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood - particularly agents and managers - they're all in a…

— Heath Ledger

I always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings.

— Joe Eszterhas

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

— Patricia Heaton

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

— My Mind Can Speak On It's Own

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

— Joel McHale

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

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

— Glenn Danzig

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

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

— Jason Johnson

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

— Will Smith

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

— Raekwon