Quotes About Hollywood

I think Hollywood is interesting. As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.

Being an actor in Hollywood involves lots of things beyond acting. Charm really helps.

Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies.

Hollywood is probably the most active centre of film-making in the world, but it's also a very difficult place in which to find your voice... It was also a far more civilised industry in Ireland.

I'm kind of irritated by the Hollywood scene.

I believe that much of Hollywood is confused about Israel.

There's always that romantic Hollywood element to it. But people appreciate 'Top Boy' because it is what it is.

I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way to get cast.

Hollywood itself is a little intimidating and exciting. There's definitely a way to go about approaching it.

All the good modern parts go to Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant.

Lauren Bacall, James Garner, and Jack Lemmon - they're all gone now, but I was so impressed by them.

James Dean and Dennis Hopper were members of the health club I went to.

James Spader is a good actor.

Jane Fonda is someone who impressed me.

I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film - now that's a whole other world. The sheer grand scale of the way things are done over there makes me envious; it's just so different from the way things are done in Japan.

I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.

I created great long-term friendships with Jerry Padalecki and Milo Ventimiglia back in the day.

Whenever I'm in L.A, I see Jessica Biel.

Scientology is much more accepted in Hollywood than Jesus.

I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one.

I've always been proud of my body, my Jewish nose and all of that. Hollywood's Hollywood, but that's not going to change.

The idea of the western, I believe, as people conceive of it, is really an artifact of the Hays Production Code of the '20s and '30s, and it has really nothing to do with the West and much to do with the influence of middle-European Jews who had come out to Hollywood to present to America a sanitized heroic idea of what America was.

Are there a lot of Jews in Hollywood? Yeah, there are.

As a human being, Joan Crawford is a great actress.