Hollywood Quotes

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.

I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.

I'm not saying that it's wrong to make huge Hollywood films but it's just a different kind of feeling, a different sort of pleasure.

I never went to any of the Hollywood child parties.

Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.

I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.

And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.

I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.

I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'

Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.

Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.

Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest.

What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is, while the creative community admittedly leans left, Hollywood has become a corporate town.

In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.

I literally get up and get to do the one thing I dreamed about doing every day. And that is being a part of a television show and a radio show that is based in Hollywood.

I try to respect the rules of the silent movies and I tried to make signification to make sense, and also the crew were very good and the fact that we shot in LA in the real Hollywood, studios and houses. We shot in the bed of Mary Pickford, and you cannot be any more accurate than that, so that helped a lot.

Unfortunately, all the cliches we see about Hollywood are true.