Quotes About Hollywood

I never dreamed of being in Hollywood.

I always admired the beautiful stars of Hollywood and dreamt of becoming one of them.

Film roles really did start to dry up when I got into my 40s.

I didn't 'leave' Dutch cinema.

I worked for a couple of screamers in my early days in Hollywood. I don't like being screamed at, and I am not myself a screamer.

They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood.

I don't like when an Asian-American actor says, 'I'm entering this business to change Hollywood.' It feels like the wrong reason - I would prefer they entered the business for artistic reasons, because they need to do it.

Everything that happens on 'Entourage' does happen in Hollywood.

I think a lot of kids I've met in L.A. trying to act want to escape working long days and think acting is all photoshoots and red carpets.

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television.

As for Hollywood, there was an offer. But I declined to do it because of certain moral and ethical values.

The whole ridiculousness of black Hollywood - there is no black Hollywood. It's every man for himself.

I've never liked Welles as an actor, because he's not really an actor. In Hollywood you have two categories, you talk about actors and personalities. Welles was an enormous personality, but when he plays Othello, everything goes down the drain, you see, that's when he's croaks. In my eyes he's an infinitely overrated filmmaker.

If you can't go to Hollywood You don't have to cry; Clark Gable is good looking But so am I.

Hollywood flicks are fun, if your idea of a good time is a hamburger and a milk shake. America invented the movies so it would never need to grow up. We have angst, depression and middle-aged regret. They have Hollywood.

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.

It was one of those rare moments where life delivers on the promises offered by Hollywood... I just stood there and watched her disappear like the pathetic, 'romantic' coward I was (and still am, I guess)... In a way, it was a perfect moment -- everything I had been waiting for... People like me probably don't want anything to actually happen to them anyway...

When I started working with my manager and started going out on auditions, I always viewed Hollywood as a 'snowball's chance in hell' kind of gig.

Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.

As a viewer, I will go and watch only commercial films.

Hollywood is just a bunch of middlemen, people trying to facilitate content transfer between creators and viewers.

I have a theory that there's almost this primal viewpoint on women in the business, that once you're beyond childbearing age, you are perceived as nonthreatening, nonsexual, noncastable. Sure, I already knew it before I got into it. I just didn't know I'd end up making my living from low-budget, independent films.