Hollywood Quotes

In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for.

How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?

Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department.

Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.

In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.

I don't give Hollywood the power to limit me. Only God can limit me.

So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.

Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.

There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.

Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.

The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal.

Do you know how many plastic surgeries are done to the actors and actresses in Hollywood?

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

Hollywood is the place to be for actors - and there's just a big rush when an Australian comes over just because there's less of them. I guess that's just how it is. Like if you pick a pink jellybean out of a jar of green ones it'd be amazing, but if you pick a green one, no one will care.

My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.

If you've got a huge Hollywood star in your film, they're getting $32 million, and everyone else gets their bus fare.

One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?

There's a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you're an actor you're somehow not a member of the crew. You're somehow more special. I hate that.

And one thing Hollywood does well is sequels.

I don't own Hollywood.

I don't have this crazy dream about going to Hollywood, because I really love to watch movies and do movies that are complicated, and I want more strange things and complicated things.

How did I get to Hollywood? By train.

I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.

You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films.

Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It's not going to do me any good.

You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood.

Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

More than seven months ago, our country learned that the horrors portrayed in Hollywood's make-believe world could actually come to life before our very eyes.

Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.