Quotes About Hollywood

For me, my number one Hollywood role model is Jennifer Lopez.

I don't consider myself a Hollywood liberal, but I have my convictions and my beliefs.

L.A. is, on one hand, very mysterious; it's very modern. It's a mysterious place - it's a haunting place - and everything in our culture around the world of entertainment leads back to Hollywood.

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

I was a very naive kid. I didn't know there were people living in closets in Hollywood.

I'm not a prude. On the set, they called me 'Butt Naked.'

My friend Liam Neeson has managed to carve out a great place in the industry for himself and is still doing action movies at 64 years old. He's my hero. I use him as a template. My middle kid, Liam, is named after him. He's one of the coolest guys in Hollywood.

Well, when I came to Hollywood, there were three names really of Latin actors, three or four names, maybe five. There was Raul Julia, Edward James Olmos, Andy Garcia, Antonio Banderas, Jimmy Smits. Now there's a lot.

When I moved to Los Angeles, I was cooking with two guys who became celebrity chefs, if you will. I became their sous chef for awhile. We'd go to all the big names in Hollywood.

We usually center our narratives that come out of Hollywood from a white male center.

I know you're busy dating actresses and psychopaths.

People in Hollywood found it as extraordinary to meet someone who had been in the same room with Hitler as Lanny found it to be in the same room with Charles Laughton and Bette Davis.

for one of the stock products of Hollywood had become anti-Nazi pictures, and Lanny's intimate stories would be useful to writers, producers, directors, costumers, property men, and on down the line.

boy. Clark Gable, maybe.

Yesterday a very interesting, beautifully photografed english picture about a nun convent in India, "Black Narcissus," with Deborah Kerr who is quite lovely. They are away ahead of Hollywood, better ideas, better scripts, better color, and much better acting. Kurt Weill, London, May 8, 1947

How come I only get booked for MILF scenes now? Whatever. Off to tan and then going to see my girls on the Wicked set.

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

Hollywood is still so racist against Asians that when there's a rare Asian extra in a film, I tense up for the chinky joke and relax when there isn't one.

Hollywood, an industry that shapes not only our national but global memories, has been the most reactionary cultural perpetrator of white nostalgia, stuck in a time loop and refusing to acknowledge that America's racial demographic has radically changed since 1965. Movies are cast as if the country were still "protected" by a white supremacist law that guarantees that the only Americans seen are carefully curated European descendants.

I've seen it too many times in Hollywood. Talking about a relationship in public can jinx it. And if you have your picture taken together, you might as well start packing your bags.

My first picture was Kitty Foyle. It was my mother who made all those films with Fred Astaire.

When I'm doing a film, I love getting together after work with my costars. But we get back to L.A. and I'm like, 'I don't want to go to a club with you, dude. I mean, I think you're rad, and if you want to come play Scrabble with me, that's amazing.'

Hollywood, Woodstock, nor the hippie culture was the source of power of the 1960's freedom movement. God was.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood - Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.