Hollywood Quotes

I haven't always been warmly welcomed for holding my conservative positions in Hollywood. Then again, I've never been very good at being politically correct either, on or off screen. So why start now?

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

I tell you, I'm really not what you'd call into your basic kink, even though we do live in Hollywood, which is a little bit like living in a box of granola.

You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.

Broadway is such a diverse community. Everybody knows how I believe, and everyone believes, and it's not a big deal. But in Hollywood, if you talk about politics - especially if you're a Republican - or spirituality, it's just not something people want to hear about.

Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs.

I didn't come to Hollywood to get on magazine covers or start my Porsche collection or to enjoy that kind of lifestyle, to go to the right parties and meet the right people.

In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.

The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening.

I would like to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for giving me this wonderful opportunity to serve as Miss Golden Globe 2012.

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.

As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.

As a runner on a film, you are the lowest of the low, and yet you have incredible access to everyone. I can totally imagine that for actors in the middle of a Hollywood bubble, all they really want is a sense of normality, and that gopher can be a tap for that.

I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business.

People in Hollywood don't have that much sex, or at least I don't.

That's one thing about Hollywood. People don't always want what's real. People always want a little more. So for me, it's a compromise. Here you go, that hyper-reality.

You can't find true affection in Hollywood because everyone does the fake affection so well.

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.

'Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.

Winning is everything in Hollywood.

I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.

I don't even take myself seriously, so how could I possibly take Hollywood seriously?