Hollywood Quotes

In Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

What the Bleep Do We Know was not written with a deaf person in mind, but when they met me, it clicked with them to have me in it. But that happens with a lot of actors in Hollywood, not just with me.

There’s not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what’s sexy in people.

You know, let’s put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn’t be a person left in town.

Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

In Hollywood, no one is happy with who they are. When they’re young, they want to look older. When they’re older, they’re getting botox shot in their face to look younger.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it’s not a natural drive – it’s born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.

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.

I remained Ryan’s companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens.

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.

The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

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

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

It’s actually great to shoot far away from Hollywood because we don’t have the distractions of the parties and premieres and all that. And, of course, you can save money – there are no good shoe stores.

My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.

There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.

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

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.

Hollywood has a longer pre-production period and they juggle shooting schedules more carefully for each cast. In Korea, we shoot day and night without much break.

There’s something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.

I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets.

Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.

When I first came to Hollywood, the blacklist was just starting, and they were having hearings in Washington. What most people don’t know is the judge of these hearings himself was later convicted of misappropriation. ‘Spartacus’ helped break the blacklist, because Spartacus was a real character.

I’m wide open to getting married, but actors are not easy people to date. You end up sharing that person with this other mistress that is their career. I very much like the traditional courtship method of making a date. That’s what they do in normal places, but Hollywood’s not normal.

Hollywood is horrible… it’s beyond satire.

Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it’s up to us to try to change it… I feel like a preacher! But it’s really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.

When you get to Hollywood, you have to start from zero, whatever you’ve done before.

Well, you know what they say in Hollywood – the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.

Hollywood, we get it. The Christian faith just doesn’t work for you ‘in the long run.’ However, for a large percentage of this country (the same country that makes your movies millions of dollars), it does. So please, for all of our sakes, keep your ‘beliefs to yourself‘ and just ‘stop the hate.’

What I have found to be so interesting in my life and with my friends and family who have ‘normal jobs‘ where they don’t play pretend for a living is that… Hollywood is absurd but very open about its absurdity.

One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?

I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn’t going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.

Hollywood, it has treated me so nicely, I am ready to faint! As soon as I see Hollywood, I love it.

I’m about as Baptist as you get in Hollywood.

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

My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.

The ultimate dream is a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood.

I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.

Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.

If someone was making a movie about F1 in the last six months, they wouldn’t need to add a Hollywood ending. If they do make that movie, it’s got to be ‘The Curious Case Of Jenson Button,’ where I’ve lived my life backwards. I’d like Johnny Depp to play me but he wouldn’t be quite right.

I had the opportunity to go cast for a Hollywood film that was filming in Thailand called ‘Mortal Kombat 2.’ Out of 100 people, I was cast to be the stunt double for Robin Shou.

The Oscars are like a political campaign. You have to have the right candidates, and the people in Hollywood know what they are.