Quotes About Hollywood

Movies like 'Chef' are not really box-office monsters in the summertime and don't really fit into Hollywood's business model any longer. Even if 'Chef' is successful, it will be successful in the context of what it is. There's a limited upside to a film that's so small, but there's also limited exposure for the people who backed me.

I didn't go Hollywood on the outside with flashy cars, upstairs maids and mink-covered bathroom fixtures. I went Hollywood on the inside, and that's worst of all. I tried to avoid being natural. I lowered my voice. I copied the mannerisms of other stars. I struck poses.

In Hollywood you just fail upwards.

I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.

I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses.

I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

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

If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

I leave Hollywood, I go somewhere else and make some music, and then, when I have to go back to work, I try and take as much that I get from outside Hollywood back with me.

If I went to them all dressed up and flashed a nice smile for the cameras it would probably be easier for me to get work. But I just can't tolerate it.

Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.

I'm just in work mode, and that prevents me from going into the Hollywood starlet mode, I suppose.

I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

If I ever lose a role because of my tattoos, I'll quit Hollywood and go to work at Costco.

Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.

I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.

I think what destroys Hollywood marriages is our work schedule, not so much infidelity.

I hope I can make some Hollywood-type action films like 'Batman' or 'Spiderman', action films like that. With some wire work, maybe wearing a mask. Like that.

Before I latched onto the concept of stereotypes, not once did I reckon with the fact that I would never be a 'Hollywood starlet.'

I think it's time we start chipping away at the stereotypes in Hollywood about the Middle East, and the Arab World, because it's one of the most beautiful regions in the world.

The first 'Red Dawn' was made at a time when Hollywood didn't stint in its use of Russian stereotypes. Cold war capitalist ideology construed the Soviets as different for two reasons - not only did they belong to another political-economic system, they didn't seem to possess the same emotions that 'we' do.