Quotes About Hollywood

I wasn't an actor. They they take the externals. Here I was, a kid thrown into Hollywood with a brand-new name, starring in motion pictures.

I like movies that are scary, but I don't want them to be dirt dumb. I want a movie that gets my blood racing, makes me laugh, but also gives me something to think about, with maybe a little sexy thrown in. Hollywood doesn't make movies like that.

When I'm in Los Angeles, sometimes I hesitate saying that I'm an actor because people are like, 'Of course you are.' And I'm like 'No,' not, 'Of course I am.' In L.A., being an actor is like a pastime: everybody there is like, 'I was on this reality show; I'm an actor.' It becomes a word that is loosely thrown around.

'Tropic Thunder' I think is a great film.

I guess I did get to tick a big one off the bucket list, though, and that was being on a giant billboard smack-bang in the hub of Hollywood Boulevard. That was... well, pretty Hollywood.

I like to say that Hollywood is one of the most democratic entities in the world and the reason why is every ticket is a vote.

The best thing about being an actress is getting good concert tickets.

I think that weird rumor or idea in Hollywood that people don't want to see female-driven movies couldn't be further from the truth. Women buy tickets to movies.

I think it's always hard to find great roles, no matter what age you are. So I always say to people, 'You have to remember that Hollywood is in the business of making movies that they can sell tickets to; they're not in the business of finding great roles for actors.'

In Hollywood, it seems that the people least successful at being married are the ones most eager to tie the knot over and over again.

Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

Once when I was making a picture in Hollywood, one of the directors who was a health addict was always trying to got me to eat organic bread, tiger milk and yoghurt, I must say the only thing I liked was the strawberry yoghurt.

I mean, sitcoms shouldn't be doing 'Saturday Night Live.' You can't just do bit after bit after bit. You have to string it together with tight writing and performances. Hollywood seems to have forgotten how to do this.

Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.

of Place and the rest of her Hollywood oeuvre. Ferring had won two Emmys for Lakeview, the Jeffersons look-alike series she'd starred in. She'd been photographed at one White House gala with President Clinton and another

I am proud to tell Hollywood that I am a Christian. For the first time I am now free to be myself.

It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.

It's a good time to be making movies, despite the cynicism people have about Hollywood.

The movie "Ed Wood," about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for "Stargate."

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

I live in Italy part time, and they're obsessed with what's happening in LA too. They make fun of Americans, but the world wants to know what's going on in Hollywood.

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

By the time I came to L.A. I'd already cried on movies of the week with two of the women from 'Knots Landing'.

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.