I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.
~By Ken Burns ~
Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.
~By Yahoo Serious ~
In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, 'Did he leave a will?' but 'Did he leave a diary?'
~By Liza Minnelli ~
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.
~By Laura Hillenbrand ~
I realized there was very little in Hollywood I would ever feel comfortable doing. If I kept one foot there and one foot in my Christianity, I would never grow.
~By Willie Aames ~
Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.
~By Elvis Presley ~
After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.
~By Sue Grafton ~
The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.
~By James Earl Jones ~
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.
~By Patricia Richardson ~
We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.
~By Hattie McDaniel ~
I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.
~By Mickey Spillane ~
To this day, I don't know what shapes a Hollywood career.
~By Dorothy McGuire ~
Law students have taken over Hollywood. To them it's all about making money. They know people want to see what they've seen before. Also, remakes are places to showcase the new stars of tomorrow.
~By Tobe Hooper ~
I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.
~By Mac Davis ~
Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.
~By Lionel Barrymore ~
How did I get to Hollywood? By train.
~By John Ford ~
Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.
~By Marc Davis ~
Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
~By Walter Winchell ~
I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.
~By David Ogden Stiers ~
I've seen it too many times in Hollywood. Talking about a relationship in public can jinx it. And if you have your picture taken together, you might as well start packing your bags.
~By Gina Gershon ~
Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.
~By Conrad Veidt ~
The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we've lost something, and we don't know how to get it back.
~By Roy Rogers ~
Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.
~By Sherilyn Fenn ~
No one has a closest friend in Hollywood.
~By Sheilah Graham ~
They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.
~By Adam Garcia ~
Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.
~By Michael Medved ~
I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.
~By Patrick Marber ~
Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.
~By Angela Carter ~
Once you've been booked, people in Hollywood say, 'Oh he must be good.' All the while you're the same actor.
~By Joel McHale ~
I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress.
~By Stacey Dash ~
Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch.
~By Jason Patric ~
Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.
~By Leonard Maltin ~
At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!
~By John Hughes ~
In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.
~By Groucho Marx ~
My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that.
~By Tony Goldwyn ~
Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
~By Billy Wilder ~
I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.
~By Brittany Murphy ~
I don't think about Hollywood at all.
~By Alex Cox ~
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.
~By Laura Dern ~
Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again.
~By Ricardo Montalban ~
There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard.
~By James Caan ~
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.
~By Alexander Payne ~
No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
~By Yasmine Bleeth ~
In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
~By Will Rogers ~
I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
~By Jackie Collins ~
It's so crazy in Hollywood.
~By David Spade ~
I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.
~By Diane Lane ~
I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.
~By Gene Tierney ~
This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.
~By Christian Slater ~
I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.
~By Gavin Bryars ~
In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness, you send out for it.
~By Rex Reed ~
I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas. I never would have imagined that one day I would follow one of those clouds and find myself in Hollywood.
~By Renee Zellweger ~
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.
~By Natasha Richardson ~
Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.
~By Morgan Brittany ~
There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
~By Rachel Weisz ~
In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.
~By Shelley Winters ~
In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.
~By Anthony Quinn ~
We should never forget that Hollywood was built by Europeans, and the old Jewish boys from Eastern Europe.
~By Maximilian Schell ~
Where is this Hollywood scene, where is it? I'd like to find it one day... If I want to go out and have a good time, I go to New York.
~By Natasha Henstridge ~
That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions.
~By Bert Lahr ~
Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger.
~By Greta Scacchi ~
Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.
~By John Ratzenberger ~
If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic.
~By Christine Baranski ~
I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
~By Eddie Bracken ~
That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.
~By Warren Beatty ~
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
~By Rita Rudner ~
I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.
~By Marcia Gay Harden ~
Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.
~By Dirk Benedict ~
As a cop, I dealt with every kind of bum and criminal. They all have more integrity than some Hollywood people.
~By Joseph Wambaugh ~
You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood.
~By Tom Selleck ~
I'm sure those rumors are spread, but it's just ah - we're really good friend. We've been since day one in Hollywood. In class, we've been together in school. We've gotten really close, but I don't know about the more than friends stuff.
~By Scotty McCreery ~
Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
~By Harrison Ford ~
But I thought, I've just got to check out Hollywood, so I sent out pictures and resumes.
~By Delta Burke ~
In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for.
~By Anthony Michael Hall ~
I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.
~By Quentin Tarantino ~
You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.
~By Priscilla Presley ~
There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood.
~By Roland Emmerich ~
There are so many things I'd like to change in the industry. Everything from the reliance of style over substance to their reluctance to hire me for big budget blockbusters, but the thing I would love most would be if they understood people don't have to be Hollywood beautiful to be sexy or interesting.
~By Colin Mochrie ~
I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.
~By Richard Linklater ~
Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.
~By Jamie Lee Curtis ~
The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
~By Katharine Hepburn ~
The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
~By Edmund Wilson ~
I think what destroys Hollywood marriages is our work schedule, not so much infidelity.
~By Eva Longoria ~
I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows.
~By Peter Falk ~
After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.
~By Edgar Bergen ~
Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.
~By Tab Hunter ~
To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.
~By Nicholas Sparks ~
People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
~By Ben Hecht ~
In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.
~By Allan Sherman ~
I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look.
~By Delta Burke ~
I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
~By Victoria Jackson ~
The whole idea of doing the Hollywood thing never even occurred to me. When you grow up on the East coast, Hollywood seems like this fantasy land and you don't think that people can actually make a living there.
~By David Steinberg ~
I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.
~By Etta James ~
I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood.
~By Alexander Walker ~
I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America.
~By Renny Harlin ~
In Hollywood there are a lot of very insecure men running the business.
~By Rosanna Arquette ~
Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.
~By Joan Crawford ~
In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.
~By Conrad Veidt ~
I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks.
~By Jerry Mathers ~
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