Quotes About Hollywood

I don't get starstruck by Hollywood celebrities as I'm not into films.

Quite honestly, I never thought it would be possible for Asians to make it in the States. But now I feel like it's totally changing. You see so many Asian celebrities now, and more and more of them are taking bigger roles in movies. I feel like everything has changed.

Film is not a national business. It's international. And its centre will always be Hollywood.

I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.

When I was making the 'Kid' my salary was $75 a week. Chaplin gave me a $5,000 bonus at the end of the picture.

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

The end of the studio system signalled the end of the great screen stars. They were the sort of actors who brought their own charismatic personas to each role they played. Audiences felt as if they knew them immediately every time they watched one of their movies.

I wanted to live where I could pop to the bar that Humphrey Bogart took Lauren Bacall to, or the little restaurant where Charlie Chaplin had a booth.

Hollywood don't always pay a lot of money. Because we're English they think we're cheap!

When you do what I've done - the normal Hollywood way, where you let people do things for you - and then you make certain choices where you have to learn to do it for yourself, which is how you should do it, it caused me to get way behind in stuff. I wouldn't change a thing because it's been a very important learning thing.

And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater.

They didn't have the money to keep Christopher Lee long enough to play his scenes with me.

Tommy Lee Jones

Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.

I had no confusion about making a superhero film. From the very day one, I knew I will make a movie of this genre which will have an Indian superhero. I never wanted to copy my superhero from any of the Hollywood ones.

I must say, I wouldn't turn down a superhero role, although there do seem to be a lot of British actors out there doing that.

I watch a lot of television. The stuff that they're putting on television, series like 'The Americans' and 'Game of Thrones,' it's so superior to most of the films that are coming out of Hollywood in terms of drama, certainly in terms of what we're interested in.

Before sequels became the most reliable way to make a buck, Bond set the standard for lavish serial adventures. Before Hollywood found gold in multimillion-dollar adaptations of comic-book characters - in the Superman, Batman and Spider-Man blockbusters - Bond was the movies' first big-budget franchise superhero.

I did 'Batman v Superman' for one or two days.

I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.

There's a really great feeling among the Australians in Hollywood. There's so many of us, and we all support each other, and it's a really nice feeling, being able to sit back and see so many people doing so well.

My family supported me before any of this crazy notion of moving out to Hollywood and staking my claim. That support has never waned.

People sometimes say, 'Oh, you were a movie star,' and I'm like, 'No, I was a supporting actress.' I wasn't an A-list actress, and I'm fine with that. I'm proud of what I did in film.

Canada's a small market. I think sometimes we do too much of supporting American stories in Hollywood and not enough supporting our own.