Hollywood Quote by Manuel Puig Download Open image “It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.” — Manuel Puig ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hollywood Life Matter Phony Way Way of life
I think it is important to make sure that I have my real life as well, because Hollywood can certainly seem like an alternate… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
I didn't come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood. — Esther Williams Copy Share Image
I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
I don't find the life in Hollywood all that meaningful or inspiring. — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
I don't think people are interested in my personal life. I've never had a Hollywood life. I've always been a worker. — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there. — Kitty Carlisle Copy Share Image
I don't have many Hollywood friends anyway; I thought with my ability I didn't need to make those kind of relationships, but maybe I… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
Until I was on Twitter, trust me: I was completely wiped off everybody's consciousness in Hollywood. — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand,… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they? — Manuel Puig 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
Hollywood is so fixated on keeping it that way because it's generating the buzz, but that representation isn't right. I definitely feel like it's… — John Boyega 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
In a lot of movies, African-Americans are either maids or slaves, but that's not all they were. We need to show that. And we… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
“I'm always looking for evidence to support my conjecture that celebrity in Hollywood is sort of like a Joel Peter Witkin photograph: It looks… — Cintra Wilson 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