Quotes About Hollywood

Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.

People who know me know that I'm always interested in an honest, civil exchange of views, and I'm not some Hollywood liberal know-nothing.

I always thought it'd be cool to portray these certain things, make people feel a certain way. I was kind of fascinated with that, but I wasn't the type to do acting school or theater. I didn't have the best views of Hollywood, so it wasn't something that I was going to try and pursue.

Pawn shops have been around for thousands of years - they were the number one form of consumer credit up until the 1950s, but we were vilified by Hollywood. We were easy people to vilify.

I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.

It is a very proud moment for our entire family that a movie has been made on our lives and we have taken a small village of Haryana to Hollywood.

There's always the standard six people you can hire that have played all these villains in Hollywood. Instinctively, when they come on screen, you know what's going to happen. You don't know the story, but you know what they do.

I think it would be a problem if Hollywood was casting British actors only as villains; if that were the case, then certainly there would be cause for concern.

In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests.

If you go back all the way to the 1920s, filmmakers in Hollywood changed the identity of villains from German to Russian.

There's an honourable tradition of British actors who've gone to Hollywood playing baddies. Part of that is because we grow up with Richard III and Macbeth - we're not afraid of our villains.

You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or lamenting vindictive excesses in sentencing. Hollywood, supposedly a frothing cauldron of liberalism, has always been conservative on crime.

I like the old, vintage Hollywood look.

I'm more girly but I also wanted to pull off the vintage, Hollywood glamour slightly circus style.

Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.

In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.

My visibility may have gotten Hollywood to redefine what's attractive.

Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.

I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.

Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.

about Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle during the filming of Windy Riley Goes Hollywood (1931)]: Oh, I thought he was magnificent in films. He was a wonderful dancer... a wonderful ballroom dancer, in his heyday. It was like floating in the arms of a huge donut... really delightful.

Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.

Hollywood's always saying, "Yesterday!" and scares you to death with all that deadline and yelling and impatience stuff.