Hollywood Quote by Kenya Barris Download Open image “For me, it was important to keep my name in 'mainstream Hollywood.'” — Kenya Barris ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hollywood Important Keep Me Name
My nickname, when I was 15 years old in the Coast Guard, they called me 'Hollywood' because I went to the movies all the… — Tab Hunter Copy Share Image
When I started making movies, they tried to change my name, but I had already made a name for myself in a couple of… — Joey Heatherton Copy Share Image
I got to star in my own movies. I even had my name above the title in some cases. But what am I known… — Evelyn Keyes Copy Share Image
My father and Mary Pickford were the reigning stars of not just Hollywood but of the world. Well, to bear my father's name was… — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr Copy Share Image
I've always maintained my name will not define my films, my films will define my name. But I wish I was called Steve, or… — McG Copy Share Image
My defining moment was when I finally went to Cannes and saw my name along with international filmmakers. — Vikramaditya Motwane Copy Share Image
There's movies that I would've loved to be in that I just wasn't even considered for because they need a name. And that happens… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I suppose 'My Hollywood' is only as politically meaningful as it is deeply inside the least powerful of its characters. I wanted it to… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
I did 'My Name Is Khan' and 'My Friend Pinto,' and I wasn't happy with where they were trying to slot me. So I… — Arjun Mathur Copy Share Image
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me. — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
I was determined to be an actor and make a name in the industry, and hence, I did. — Nawazuddin Siddiqui Copy Share Image
I wanted to do a show about a family that is absolutely black. Because as Du Bois has shown, we do have to live… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
We're supposed to be becoming more evolved as a society, and we're actually becoming less evolved. — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
I consider myself a disciple of Norman Lear. And one of the things he did was topic-driven humor. — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
And I feel like, as a black man within black culture, I know very well firsthand - as do my parents and my grandparents… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
For me, one of the big things I really worried about a lot was nuclear war growing up. — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
I have five kids, and people can say 'nature versus nurture,' but it is nature! Nurture has so little to do with it. I… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
The acknowledgement and celebration of Juneteenth as an American and possibly international holiday is something that I would put in the life goals column… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
My kids did not know that Obama was the first black president. I felt like I needed to tell them because I felt like,… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
Writers' rooms are terrifying. You take someone whose never done this before, and this is their life's dream that is about to happen or… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
Hollywood is very much an industry town. Your life becomes caught up in all of the parties and this list and that list. That's… — Don Johnson Copy Share Image
I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too.… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Artist Matthew Barney has made a film about “shit”. It is hardly original. Hollywood has made shit films for decades.” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to… — Cesar Romero Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Writing is the life blood of everything in Hollywood. Without writers, there are no scripts, no acting work. — Ali Wong Copy Share Image
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded. — John McCain Copy Share Image
I mean, sitcoms shouldn't be doing 'Saturday Night Live.' You can't just do bit after bit after bit. You have to string it together… — Joyce DeWitt Copy Share Image
