Hollywood Quotes

I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.

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!

I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.

I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that.

Hollywood have been in touch; they want to make a movie of my life.

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.

In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests.

At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know.

In Hollywood, if you have any success, you have this fear: What do you have to do to hang onto it?

People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.

In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.

I don't give a damn about Hollywood.

You know what? I never really factor Hollywood into anything. I'm a black actor, so I can't really control what Hollywood thinks. I gotta go do my thing, and my jokes have got to be funny. Whatever I do has got to be great.

There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.

I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.

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.

I never took to Hollywood.

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

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

E.T.' and 'Extra,' they are too salacious. They go, Oooh, Katie Couric just broke up with X. 'Access Hollywood' is really good entertainment news. It's not dirty, and we don't get cheap.

My husband is someone who's in the real world. It's a big help that I don't have both feet in Hollywood.

I believe that a writer learns from every story he writes, and when you try different things, you learn different lessons. Working with other writers, as in Hollywood or in a shared world series, will also strengthen your skills, by exposing you to new ways of seeing the work, and different approaches to certain creative challenges.

Hollywood has lost an enormous amount of quality.

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you.

Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.