Business Quote by Julia Hartz

I'm from Los Angeles, and growing up here, I've always been enamored by Hollywood and the industry. It's just something I grew up with,…

— Skyler Samuels

Hollywood's a big place, and they make all sorts of different movies. Some movies I'm attracted to; a lot of the movies I'm not.…

— David Wenham

I took myself out of the business to study film at NYU and the School of Visual Arts. I grew up on movie sets…

— Devin Ratray

I have done a lot of work in Hollywood myself. I worked in television for roughly 10 years, from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s. And…

— George R. R. Martin

I definitely understood the feeling of moving to Los Angeles and having a dream to be an actor in films and to get to…

— Emma Stone

I was obsessed with Hollywood from the time I was a kid. I always knew I wanted to live in Los Angeles.

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

I did an internship in the Silicon Valley during the Internet boom. I couldn't imagine sitting in a cubicle the rest of my life,…

— Justin Chon

I went to LA because my parents were there and somebody asked me if I wanted to be in a movie. It was easy,…

— Hampton Fancher

Acting was just outside of the realm of possibility for me. I grew up in L.A. and around Hollywood but I literally never, honestly,…

— Cody Horn

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

— Olivia Wilde

I grew up doing musical theatre in L.A. at this sort of children's theatre/community that was kind of my escape from school and such…

— Molly Gordon

I began my career performing in plays and musicals in New York, but by the mid-'80s, opportunities in Hollywood beckoned and I made the…

— Christine Ebersole