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Quotes About Hollywood

That's the kind of stuff you are offered today. Scripts that have you mixed up with young men. I find them utterly revolting.
~ Irene Dunne
I'm a straight lady, the best in Hollywood. There is an art to playing the straight role. You must build up your man, but never top him, never steal the laughs.
~ Margaret Dumont
Hollywood was all about. Hollywood was merely a specialized bank—a consortium of large financial entities that hired talent, almost always for a flat rate, ordered that talent to create a product, and then marketed that product to death, all over the world, in every conceivable medium. The goal was to find products that would keep on making money forever, long after the talent had been paid off and sent packing.
~ Neal Stephenson
Hollywood was merely a specialized bank—a consortium of large financial entities that hired talent, almost always for a flat rate, ordered that talent to create a product, and then marketed that product to death, all over the world, in every conceivable medium.
~ Neal Stephenson
In the view of Hollywood, the techies of Silicon Valley were just a particularly naive form of talent.
~ Neal Stephenson
That moment was the first time I heard the phrase Project Hollywood. I didn't think much about it at the time. I figured it would end up like Project Bliss: another stillborn scheme consigned to the trashcan of mental masturbation. "I
~ Neil Strauss
Project Hollywood had reached a new nadir. MYSTERY:
~ Neil Strauss
So often, I go to L.A. and I feel like I'm hanging out with robots. And all they do is sit around and talk about other people. I could run my mouth, but at the same time, if that's all we're doing is talking about other people, it's not cute!
~ Bretman Rock
And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.
~ Skitch Henderson
You know, I've always wanted to do dramas. When I moved to L.A., that was my dream, because I never really grew up watching comedies, although of course I loved 'Dumb & Dumber.'
~ Seann William Scott
I go to this gym in Hollywood: it's a Cross Fit gym. It's basically just a really high intensity, sort of, athletic movements. I'm sure Cross Fit is going to be mad at me for not giving their definition of what Cross Fit is.
~ Parker Young
I was always one step behind Marilyn. She made all the right moves, hung out with the right people who could advance her career. I was just the opposite. I was always breaking dates with moguls and running off with guys younger than myself.
~ Mamie Van Doren
As an Asian actor, I would like once in my life to do just one Hollywood movie. It would be a memorable experience.
~ Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
One of my dogs is in the movie Beethoven's 2nd.
~ Greg Louganis
If you were in Clint Eastwood movies, you were in the Clint Eastwood movie business. You weren't in the movie business. You weren't part of Hollywood. This became clear early on; people stopped calling. They automatically assumed I was working exclusively with Clint.
~ Sondra Locke
I don't have any interest in being a movie star.
~ Winona Ryder
I am a movie star.
~ Jayne Mansfield
What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.
~ Jean-Claude Van Damme
The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star.
~ Piper Laurie
I'm loving saying 'I'm not a big movie star, but I play one on television.'
~ Johnathon Schaech
Denzel Washington is a big Hollywood movie star now. But he started out as an actor in the Negro Ensemble company.
~ Pearl Cleage
My dream was to go to Hollywood and become a movie star, and it happened. This country is geared toward that. When an actor can become president, anything can happen.
~ Mamie Van Doren
You know, we weren't a Hollywood family. I didn't grow up in a home with screening rooms and my mother didn't behave like a movie star.
~ Sean Hepburn Ferrer
I'm going to be a movie star, break Hollywood.
~ David Haye