Quotes About Hollywood

One of my favorite credits is to say that I worked behind Marilyn Monroe, and I love saying that. She was phenomenal.

'The Philadelphia Story' is one of my favorite movies.

In Hollywood, you can't say anything bad about anybody or everyone is going to attack you. It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like.

That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.

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 is so phony, it's sickening.

That would make a great Instagram photo - me and David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson.

I have the same friends I've had for years and the same family. Unless you love rock n' roll and Hollywood parties and having your photo taken, I don't think necessarily things need to change too much.

Hollywood is crazy because if you're working, you're constantly working. There's all sorts of scheduling and stuff, and maybe you have a day off, but you don't have the whole day. You've got a photo shoot or whatever.

After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.

I always liked movies, so I started writing for Hollywood, but my day job was physics.

As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.

I had no clue of Hollywood until I became a teenager. Then I got a fake ID in Tijuana and discovered Shelly's Manne-Hole, on Cahuenga and Selma, where I saw John Coltrane and his piano player, McCoy Tyner, and Elvin Jones, the drummer - my idol.

Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.

Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.

Being an aging woman in Hollywood is no picnic.

In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.

You have to be very, very good looking to get ahead in motion pictures.

People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.

I've done my best to avoid B pictures.

In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.

But I thought, I've just got to check out Hollywood, so I sent out pictures and resumes.

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

It was tough to try to be serious in front of Halle Berry and Pierce Brosnan with all this stuff in my face. There's never been a character that's looked this extreme.

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 pigeonhole people, and there's nothing an actor loves more than to do something different.