Hollywood Quotes

The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do.

I've made humanitarian causes and my children much more my priority than the Hollywood scene, being liked and getting movie parts.

For us, as actors, and even for the director, it gave us a sense of authenticity to what we were doing because we were talking about Hollywood and we were in Hollywood.

Being from New York, there's three things you know about Hollywood. You know about the Hollywood sign, Sunset Strip and Hollywood Boulevard with the stars.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.

I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses.

Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946.

I think I have always tried to do the smaller films. I like to jump around and there is something really nice for acting in a smaller film. But I think now, Hollywood's movies certainly involve a younger generation for the most part and so... I love going back and forth.

It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.

Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.

I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.

When the script for 'The Wrestler' kept coming to me I said, This movie is so good if you put me in the film as a wrestler people are going to say, 'No credibility, Hulk Hogan isn't a good actor,' whatever Hollywood thinks of me.

I get bored in Hollywood.

And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.

If you're doing an hour-long show, you're working movie hours, doing a 12-15-hour day. We work three or four hours a day, and get every third or fourth week off to give the writers time to write. It's the cushiest job in Hollywood.

There are thousands of directors in Hollywood.

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

It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and it will expand into more than one production house.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce.

Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make that any man anywhere.

To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.

And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.

If you go to Hollywood, you've already sold out.

I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.

Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that.

In Hollywood you always feel a bit like a hake. The publicists march people up and down in front of you and they interview you... You feel like the turbot and the sea-bream go by, and you're the hake.

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.