Hollywood Quote by Pauline Kael Download Open image “If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?” — Pauline Kael ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hollywood Ifs Mankind Prognosis Tests Tissues Use
I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening. — Brittany Murphy Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be. — Lionel Barrymore Copy Share Image
It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and… — Ann Macbeth Copy Share Image
Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings. — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links. — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
There's an abundance of hope in Hollywood, as if it's fueled by the sun, and maybe it is. — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, Hollywood has had a very limited view of what life is and what certain people in certain roles, what they look… — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
So many people aren't ready for Hollywood - professionally or practically. — John Ratzenberger Copy Share Image
My nucleus of friends or something protects me from the machinery that is Hollywood. I don't think I'm on the same quest that a… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
The movies have been so rank the last couple of years that when I see people lining up to buy tickets I sometimes think… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I… — Pauline Kael 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
