Hollywood Quotes

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.

There is a lot of strength and intelligence 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.

Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't want to alienate half your audience by sending one message or the other.

Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.

I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.

As a cop, I dealt with every kind of bum and criminal. They all have more integrity than some Hollywood people.

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated.

As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic.

Because of 'The Birds' and 'Marnie' I was, as the expression goes, hot in Hollywood and producers and directors wanted to hire me.

I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.

Because someone stole Gregory Peck's star on Hollywood Blvd., I have hired a Brink's guard to protect my star!

I think Hispanic women are beautiful with their curves. I'm not sure who feels that way in Hollywood. I was never told to lose 50 pounds. If they think that they just don't bother with you. You just don't get the role and you never know why. That's still better than physically harming yourself and becoming unhealthy just to star in a movie.

Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.

Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses.

People ask me if I ever feel outside the Hollywood loop, and I never do, because both of us do a lot of theatre, so it's great for New York and it's also half-way between Europe and the west coast, so it's the best of both worlds.

Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer.

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.