Quotes About Hollywood

I haven't done the Star Wars kind of films.

It used to be that when an actress reached thirty, she was considered almost washed up.

In Hollywood, they make movies like they make washing machines. It's a business. In Europe, the films are considered art. No producer would ever tell a director where to cut a film or how to re-write the script. I love Hollywood, but all of the time I have to go back to Europe.

I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.

I regret the passing of the studio system," Lucille Ball once said. "I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. Believe me. What could I do? I couldn't dance. I couldn't sing. I could talk. I could barely walk. I had no flair. I wasn't a beauty, that's for sure.

Yes, she was probably the most blatantly carnal vixen ever filmed. And yes, she led a private life of considerable vitality and color. But let it not be forgotten that she was a stage-trained actress of greater power and range than moviegoers saw. Under all the Hollywood frou-frou, and her own misguided insecurities, Gloria Grahame was one killer tomato.

It was the drive-in restaurant, a product of the Great Depression's crimp on the free-wheeling lifestyle that had grown up around movie-happy Hollywood. Drive-ins sprouted in city parking lots and spread along highways and canyon drives.

I'd love to work with Gerry Butler, Alan Cummings, and Ewan McGregor. It'd be amazing if we could do a Scottish Hollywood movie.

On my first day on the set of 'Boston Legal,' I thought the director was calling me 'Candice' instead of 'Constance.' But I didn't realize he was actually talking to Candice Bergen.

'X-Men 1' - I did a cameo.

In Hollywood, the cameraman lights the star. In Europe, he lights the set.

I moved to L.A., because that's where they point cameras at you. And that's what I'd like them to do.

I left Canada to come to Hollywood to make movies.

My dad's a lighting director. Growing up in Hollywood, I was around the entertainment industry all the time. I knew I'd end up in show business in some capacity, eventually.

Entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me.

Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.

Every card player in Hollywood wanted to come to the games. Everyone's friends and their friends wanted to come to watch.

Asian Americans haven't had as many opportunities as other people to build their careers in Hollywood, just because there hasn't been that much of an interest, especially in Asian American males.

Every movie I've done, when they cast me, they knew I'd probably do it for a toffee apple and a Frappuccino.

For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.

When you do casting in Hollywood, it's always the same question: 'Who is available?'

It takes time for brown people and people of different ethnicities to get into the Hollywood world, which is predominantly Caucasian and African American.

There were many times when I could have gone down the path of being a child star, which I know can be bad; I think, especially in L.A., it's easy to get caught up in that life.

I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.