Quotes About Hollywood

Hollywood wants guys who can act tough - Hollywood don't want tough guys.

I live in the area where the Hollywood sign is. Every afternoon, I'll take a daily walk, and there are loads of tourists always on the street taking photos of the Hollywood sign. Occasionally, I'll still get recognized as 'Gunther,' which is okay with me.

I've never been big on cars. When I first got to Hollywood, I bought a used car from Avis. I drove that until I almost had to pay someone to tow it away.

My impression is that the Academy is really sincere about moving toward a more inclusive and representative Hollywood.

Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.

And I don't think I'm giving away any secrets here, but there are a lot of terrible scripts in this town.

Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy.

Anyone who has been in this town long enough has their own 'True Hollywood story.'

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse.

I grew up in this little farm town, and I've always dreamt of Hollywood and pop culture, and then I suddenly found myself plopped in the middle of it.

You know, Hollywood is a very interesting town - always has been, always will be.

No one really cares about you but you. They say they do, but everyone in Hollywood is a heat-seeking missile, and it's easy to go after the cute girl or guy that's new to town.

Los Angeles is a one-horse town. It's entirely driven by the entertainment business and that's what it is.

Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with Paris Hilton when I was three. That's what L.A. is, though - it's an industry town. You go to school with kids and you think, 'Well that's normal, they make movies.'

Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.

I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.

I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite.

Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.

I've been in this business for years and I'm still befuddled by the ways of this town.

The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.

My position now, especially in this town, adds an element of skepticism with people you meet - especially girls. I mean, it becomes a lot more difficult.

Hollywood is very much an industry town. Your life becomes caught up in all of the parties and this list and that list. That's not something that I respond well to.

They put all this money into these huge films and then no one goes to see them. That sort of shows they're out of touch. Then everyone in town passes on my little movie and it does really well.