Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
~By David Hockney ~
It's nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film as long as it is the right thing to do.
~By Neil Jordan ~
I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.
~By Lee Remick ~
I wasn't an actor. They they take the externals. Here I was, a kid thrown into Hollywood with a brand-new name, starring in motion pictures.
~By Tab Hunter ~
It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting.
~By David Ogden Stiers ~
All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn't understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting.
~By Marisa Tomei ~
There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.
~By Ben Stiller ~
I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks.
~By Jerry Mathers ~
My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.
~By James Woods ~
I had some connections from the newspapers that I did work with up there, so there was a newspaper publisher in Hollywood, and they promised me work and so on.
~By Marc Davis ~
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 ~
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
~By Julie Burchill ~
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 ~
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 ~
When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room and gave them popcorn. It was called 'Project Hollywood 2004' and it worked. I moved to L.A. in January of 2004.
~By Emma Stone ~
I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.
~By Mickey Spillane ~
I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business.
~By Mike Farrell ~
I like being in movies that have a great story. I'm not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It's a job, you know. When you wake up at six in the morning every day for a week, it feels like hard work.
~By Kristen Stewart ~
It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.
~By Martin Henderson ~
Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.
~By Ben Hecht ~
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 ~
Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger.
~By Greta Scacchi ~
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 ~
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 ~
I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one.
~By Jean-Marie Messier ~
And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press.
~By Patricia Heaton ~
I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
~By Imogen Cunningham ~
This summer, I'll be bringing out a mystery that involves a young lawyer and a court scene the likes of which I don't think you've ever seen. Hollywood said this is James Patterson meets John Grisham.
~By James Patterson ~
My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.
~By Carroll O'Connor ~
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.
~By Walter Hill ~
It's tough when take 1 is technically okay and take 2 has better acting. Out here (Hollywood) they print the first one. That's the one where we all hit the mark on the floor and who cares about the acting.
~By Judy Holliday ~
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 ~
After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.
~By Maureen O'Hara ~
I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.
~By Skitch Henderson ~
An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.
~By Fred Allen ~
Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.
~By Uwe Boll ~
To this day, I don't know what shapes a Hollywood career.
~By Dorothy McGuire ~
Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.
~By Marc Davis ~
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?
~By James Caan ~
Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department.
~By Ann Sothern ~
Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.
~By Gregory Harrison ~
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 ~
My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.
~By Robert Vaughn ~
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 ~
This is the place to see the stars - Hollywood Bowl.
~By Mahalia Jackson ~
I don't think about Hollywood at all.
~By Alex Cox ~
Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.
~By Leonard Maltin ~
You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
~By Carrie Fisher ~
I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
~By Barry Corbin ~
I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star.
~By Arlene Dahl ~
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.
~By Liam Neeson ~
Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.
~By Trey Parker ~
It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
~By Lana Turner ~
It seems the farther away we are from Hollywood, the better the ratings.
~By Martin Milner ~
Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.
~By Robert Duvall ~
And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.
~By Skitch Henderson ~
Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles.
~By William Petersen ~
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
~By Fred Allen ~
Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.
~By Erica Jong ~
Hollywood wants press, any kind of press.
~By Christopher Atkins ~
But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star.
~By Kim Novak ~
I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.
~By Dorothy Malone ~
I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood.
~By Kathleen Turner ~
I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it.
~By Sherilyn Fenn ~
Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It's not going to do me any good.
~By James Woods ~
Hollywood has lost an enormous amount of quality.
~By Claire Trevor ~
We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.
~By Michael Eisner ~
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.
~By Marlee Matlin ~
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.
~By Debi Mazar ~
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 ~
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.
~By Rainer W. Fassbinder ~
Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.
~By Michael Medved ~
If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.
~By Meg Tilly ~
You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.
~By Adam Sandler ~
You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
~By Owen Wilson ~
It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.
~By Roland Emmerich ~
There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard.
~By James Caan ~
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 ~
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 ~
The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
~By Anita Diament ~
In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests.
~By Max von Sydow ~
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 ~
Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.
~By Dennis Miller ~
My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.
~By Hattie McDaniel ~
I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.
~By Brittany Murphy ~
You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
~By Larry Hagman ~
Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth.
~By Marlee Matlin ~
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 ~
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 ~
Broke is a Hollywood term!
~By David Geffen ~
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.
~By Pola Negri ~
I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.
~By Rachel Ward ~
You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense.
~By John C. Reilly ~
I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite.
~By Josh Lucas ~
So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.
~By Eriq La Salle ~
But we did the Pink Panther not in Hollywood, in Italy.
~By Claudia Cardinale ~
I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit.
~By Tony Goldwyn ~
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