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Quotes About Hollywood

It's like, once you've seen Tom Hanks win the Golden Globes, the Oscars, you've seen his wife, what kind of car he drives, when you watch his movies, you can't fully get really lost in them.
~ Justin Theroux
Well, he was scarcely a parfit gentil knight; as Wolfie said, he looked like some Hollywood Geronimo trying to kick a ninety-dollar habit.
~ Peter Matthiessen
Abroad in Hollywood, I am called Bling Bling Bappi.
~ Bappi Lahiri
If I'm playing an Indian in a Hollywood film, I won't do it in any funny Indian accent.
~ Huma Qureshi
Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.
~ Sally Field
From the moment I got to Hollywood, I've always felt like I never really got to do what I wanted to do. In general, artists feel that you're never really allowed to accomplish what you would like to accomplish because there's just so much of this system that gets in the way; the business gets in the way of the art.
~ Martin Kove
One quality that a director needs to acquire in Hollywood is to understand the system and figure out how to work within the system to express one's own ideas.
~ Kim Jee-woon
I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood.
~ Penelope Spheeris
I like the action business. I like the action movies. I guess Hollywood wants to see me do action. So I am down. I like it.
~ Larenz Tate
I like movies, action movies. I definitely would be an actor in Hollywood.
~ Tyrann Mathieu
There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.
~ Eva Gabor
Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.
~ Zhang Ziyi
No, actors go out with actresses as a form of self-flagellation.
~ John Cusack
Scarlett Johansson. I think people don't really realize how great of an actress that girl is. She's so beautiful and that distracts you from what she can do as an actor.
~ Demian Bichir
Three weeks into being in Hollywood, I was playing with Slash through an ad in the paper.
~ Duff McKagan
I hope maybe somehow I won't be in this business all my life, and I won't be one of those women that's trying to, you know, save what she looks like... My work is about something completely different. It's about what's inside.
~ Sherilyn Fenn
I have done almost 100 movies and given voice over for almost all Hollywood stars.
~ Rajesh Khattar
You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film... at least in Hollywood studio films.
~ Richard LaGravenese
I don't have many Hollywood friends anyway; I thought with my ability I didn't need to make those kind of relationships, but maybe I should have done. Might have made my life easier!
~ Mickey Rourke
I certainly don't approve of American actors who go to Europe and run down Hollywood.
~ Van Heflin
When it's really fashionable, there's something wrong. An actor once came up to me and said, "I'm a Meth. . ." and he mumbled something. I said, "Get out of here. I don't want that around. It's too corrupt.
~ Unknown
I'm doing 'Les Miserables ' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'
~ Hugh Jackman
We went through all the usual exchanges dictated by Hollywood and polite society. She tried to scream and bite the palm of my hand, and I told her to be quiet because I wasn't going to hurt her unless she shouted. She shouted and I hurt her. Pretty standard stuff, really.
~ Hugh Laurie
Nous avons échangé des civilités. Mi-scénario hollywodien, mi-bonne société. Elle a commencé à hurler, puis essayé de me mordre la main.
~ Hugh Laurie