Quotes About Hollywood

I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide.

David Harper was Hollywood handsome but he had a Conan the Barbarian temper to go with his looks.

Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.

bright lights," he said. "I'm afraid we're a disappointment compared to Hollywood's

I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.

Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.

Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.

I guess the only jewels of my life were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire.

I'd rather look chubby on screen and like a person in real life.

Well, everything is constantly evolving and changing. That's what life is all about. But basically Hollywood has lost its focus as a film center. Films are now made all over the world.

My faith doesn't go over real well in Hollywood.

There's a well-known Hollywood personality who claims that she loses weight by being hypnotized into hating the food that's bad for her. I did that to myself while I was still in my teens and saved some very big hypnotist's fees.

I hate Hollywood fund-raisers. I am so bored going to a twenty-five million dollar house to hear a mogul say, "Good news, everyone. Tonight we've raised almost twelve thousand dollars!" You paid your gay hustler more than that, you cheap thing. Why not spare all of us the canapés, small talk and crème brûlée and just write a damn check?

I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.

It was the rare actor who brought authenticity to the screen; one exception was Tom Mix, a former ranch hand from Oklahoma. The "King of the Cowboys," Mix made over 160 films and was a frequent visitor when Wyatt and Josephine were in Los Angeles, sometimes accompanying Wyatt to the racetrack. William S. Hart was another Earp acolyte. Where Tom Mix was a rough-and-ready showman, Hart was classically trained, as comfortable in a Shakespearean tragedy as he was in a Western.

Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.

In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

My theater professor once said to me 'Leslie, you are capable of genuine artistry but you're the laziest actor I know. And yes, you can make people laugh, but you're going to become a parody of yourself and end up in Hollywood if you're not careful.' And he's right, I did all of that.

I am the child of Indian immigrants, both of whom have Ph.D.s and are college professors, and I'm an actor in Hollywood.

Behind the ambitious, creative talent that is Hollywood lies a darker side of the entertainment industry little appreciated by the ordinary moviegoer. It's an opaque world of film financing, revenue accretion, and minimal profit share.

Hollywood is going to have to find a way of meeting those profit goals.

It'd be nice if Asian actors could be perceived as profitable, which is the bottom line. We're perceived as not mattering much fiscally.

Nothing communicates with the people who make real decisions in Hollywood like spending your own money and showing that you can make profitable films.

If you work in the studio system in America, they've almost got to the point where a computer programme could write scripts. Effectively, they hire and fire enough writers until they get something generic.