Quotes About Hollywood

When I started making movies, they tried to change my name, but I had already made a name for myself in a couple of Broadway productions and in television, so I wouldn't change it.

So much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it.

I can take scripts directly to actors. Agents don't like to hear that.

Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.

I would want like Leonardo Dicaprio's dirt, because he doesn't have any out there. We never see any bad press about him.

In Hollywood, I was used to being on a dirty old sound stage, and the whole crew is just scratching themselves. They don't care who you are.

Many members of the Hollywood community are very liberal and they value their civil liberties more than they value life. I disagree with that.

In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.

Living in Hollywood, you can get disconnected from everybody. You can feel like you are the only one.

TMZ is so disgusting.

I don't think Hollywood respects multi-camera television. Well, I don't think they disrespect it, but I don't think it gets respect for its artistry.

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

As a drag diva auditioning in Hollywood, I've run the gamut.

Now, there doesn't have to necessarily be a white man in the lead role. That's the way forward. That's diversity. It's cool if an Indian is playing the lead role in a Hollywood project, and we should be proud of this.

It doesn't make sense to constantly talk about the lack of diversity in Hollywood. We all know it's there. My wife and I just want to change that conversation with our work.

We're all complaining about diversity in Hollywood, but we've got to address the colorism within the black community of Hollywood first.

Hollywood needs more diversity.

The expense of a screen test is one reason why it's difficult to crash Hollywood.

I went to L.A. to become an actress, and I started from the ground up. I worked as an extra, and then I started taking this joke-writing class because it was free. I didn't want to be a comedian, but I was like, 'Free education? Yeah, I'll take a class.'

In 1990, there were no services catering for eyebrows in Hollywood.

I am in awe of Hrithik Roshan. He is so fabulous. He is like an all-rounder. I think he deserves to be in a Hollywood film.

I've written a book; I've become a better husband and father because I'm home every day. My connection to the Hollywood world has only been through Facebook.

In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.