Hollywood famous quotes

By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.
-- A. Scott Berg

#Men #Hollywood #Serious

A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Sex #Stars #Hollywood

Thank you, Hollywood, for allowing me to be part of your group.
-- Aaron Paul

#Thank You #Hollywood #Groups

I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.
-- Abbie Cornish

#Hollywood #Body #Actresses

I feel like Hollywood is a big high school again. Seriously, Ashton Kutcher is the prom king.
-- Adam Brody

#Kings #School #Hollywood

If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
-- Adam Carolla

#People #Hollywood #Needs

I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care.
-- Adam Carolla

#Hollywood #Connections #Care

Everyone in Hollywood thinks like a Republican fiscally by leaving town to shoot everything; they just don't vote that way.
-- Adam Carolla

#Thinking #Leaving #Hollywood

I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz. I grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.
-- Adam Shankman

#Beach #Hollywood #Grew Up

My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.
-- Adrian Grenier

#Ambition #Hollywood #Pay

Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don't think of them as disabled. You amputate part of a nose, that's 'enhancement'. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that's 'augmentation'. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it's 'disability'?
-- Aimee Mullins

#Thinking #Hollywood #Noses

For me, it’s not about breaking big in Hollywood, but having interesting experiences.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

#Interesting #Hollywood #Bigs

There's always the standard six people you can hire that have played all these villains in Hollywood. Instinctively, when they come on screen, you know what's going to happen. You don't know the story, but you know what they do.
-- Albert Brooks

#People #Hollywood #Stories

What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing.
-- Alejandro Amenabar

#Mean #People #Hollywood

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.
-- Alejandro Amenabar

#Sea #People #Hollywood

Don't make your living with cinema because Hollywood will take you, will eat you, will destroy you. This is the reality. You have a good picture, have success, you take the person and they destroy you.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky

#Reality #Hollywood #Cinema

I live right under the Hollywood sign, so that every day when I drive home I'm reminded of why I'm here.
-- Alessandro Nivola

#Home #Hollywood

Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.
-- Alex Cox

#Careers #Hollywood #Negative

I don't think about Hollywood at all.
-- Alex Cox

#Thinking #Hollywood

Hollywood is owned by the Arabs.
-- Alex Jones

#Hollywood

And I got a lot of friends in Hollywood.
-- Alex Jones

#Hollywood #Lots Of Friends

Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is.
-- Alex Kingston

#Shadow #Hollywood #Invisible

Michael Moore didn't have to worry that anyone would misinterpret the title of his film, 'Capitalism: A Love Story,' because in Hollywood, no one loves capitalism. That's too bad, because Hollywood is one of capitalism's greatest successes.
-- Alex Tabarrok

#Worry #Hollywood #Titles

Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production.
-- Alex Tabarrok

#People #Hollywood #Ordinary

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.
-- Alexander Payne

#Trying #Hollywood #Cinema

I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - 'I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!
-- Alexander Skarsgard

#Stars #Children #Hollywood

I'm a big fan of glamour. It's something I don't think there's enough of in Hollywood anymore. I enjoy putting on a sexy dress and heels. I want to work it.
-- Ali Larter

#Sexy #Thinking #Hollywood

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
-- Alistair Cooke

#Greek #Hollywood #Factories

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.
-- Allan Sherman

#Hollywood #World #Colony

Unfortunately, many talented people in Hollywood find their values and politics do not reflect the content they create, and many movie themes are in direct contrast with over half of todays American families.
-- Allen Covert

#People #Hollywood #Half

Most Hollywood men are too vain and shallow for me.
-- Alley Mills

#Men #Hollywood #Vain

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.
-- Ally Sheedy

#Hollywood #Definitions #Discrimination

I loved living in Hollywood - and the weather there was just fantastic - but there is something about rural England, and especially Suffolk and Norfolk, that pulls at my heartstrings.
-- Amanda Donohoe

#Weather #Hollywood #England

I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - Ill devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is Sunset Boulevard starring Gloria Swanson.
-- Amanda Donohoe

#Sunset #Hollywood #Watches

Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I'd say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood.
-- Amitabh Bachchan

#Emotional #Singing #Hollywood

You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films.
-- Amitabh Bachchan

#Acting #Hollywood #Stories

Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.
-- Amy Heckerling

#Dream #Hollywood #Factories

In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure ...
-- Amy Vanderbilt

#Hollywood #Analysts #Admission

Hollywood is a mirage factory ...
-- Anais Nin

#Hollywood #Mirages #Factories

My life in Montana is so diverse from my Hollywood life that it even feels odd for me to go from one life to the other.
-- Andie MacDowell

#Hollywood #Montana #Odd

Well, executive producer can mean anything in the world of Hollywood, sadly. It can be a bought title in many instances.
-- Andrew Stanton

#Mean #Hollywood #Titles

Occasional observers of horror movies have a nasty habit of asking why it is that there is always some poor misguided soul who opens the door to the cellar or to the attic or to the crypt when it's quite clear that no sane person would even consider it.
-- Andrew Tudor

#Doors #Soul #Hollywood

Contemporary audiences, other than those making a deliberate historical leap, would find, say, the 1931 'Dracula' impossibly slow.
-- Andrew Tudor

#Historical #Hollywood #Film

In a Western or a thriller there is often room for reflection upon the coercive necessities; even, occasionally, some attempt to pose other possibilities. In the horror movies there is finally a Hobbesian state of nature: 'continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'.
-- Andrew Tudor

#Reflection #Men #Hollywood

In 'Play Misty For Me', its inexplicably assertive knife-woman nearly manages the impossible task of slaughtering Clint Eastwood.
-- Andrew Tudor

#Knives #Play #Hollywood

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.
-- Andy Warhol

#Beautiful #Artist #Hollywood

I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, 'Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?'
-- Ang Lee

#Years #Hollywood #Oscars

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.
-- Angela Carter

#Dream #Hollywood #United States

Louis B. Mayer and I got along like a house afire. He never chased me around his desk or tried anything with me. Of course, he never gave me any good parts, either.
-- Angela Lansbury

#House #Hollywood #Desks

The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
-- Anita Diament

#Real #Hollywood #Puff

If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.
-- Anita Loos

#Hollywood

Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.
-- Ann Beattie

#Thinking #Tea #Hollywood

Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.
-- Anna Faris

#Males #Hollywood #Female

I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star.
-- Anna May Wong

#Stars #Hollywood #May

I don't look like Catherine Zeta-Jones, so I don't think Hollywood would be that interested in me, to be honest. I just want nice work.
-- Anne-Marie Duff

#Nice #Thinking #Hollywood

In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
-- Annette Funicello

#Birthday #Stars #Hollywood

The great thing about it is, in Hollywood, certain people are very good at keeping their lives and who they are very private. I've never met anybody as down to earth and cool in Hollywood than Matt Damon.
-- Anthony Mackie

#People #Hollywood #Earth

No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.
-- Anthony Minghella

#Ambitious #Mountain #Hollywood

I don't hang out at trendy Hollywood bars.
-- Anton Yelchin

#Hollywood #Bars #Trendy

A couple of years after I arrived in Hollywood, everything that was Latino was fashionable, and years after, my thought is that we're not fashionable anymore. We're here to stay.
-- Antonio Banderas

#Couple #Years #Hollywood

Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is.
-- Antonio Banderas

#Strong #Hollywood #Female

All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique - that's not working any more.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Pseudo #Hollywood #Looking Good

I have always let the lack of Indian actors in the industry drive me, not hold me back. I remember an agent in L.A. telling me a few years ago that an Indian actor wouldn't ever make it in Hollywood, but my ethnicity has helped me.
-- Archie Panjabi

#Ethnicity #Years #Hollywood

I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago
-- Armand Assante

#Long #Hollywood

I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that
-- Armand Assante

#Hollywood #Film #Enough

Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading dead zone of exhaustion, inertia, and brilliant decay.
-- Arthur Kroker

#Space #Black #Hollywood

I still giggle when someone asks for my address and I say, Hollywood, Los Angeles.
-- Ashley Jensen

#Hollywood #Addresses #Los Angeles

I'm not someone who likes to be in the whole Hollywood tabloids.
-- Ashley Tisdale

#Hollywood #Tabloids #Likes

I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there.
-- Audrey Tautou

#Desire #Hollywood

Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino.
-- Ava DuVernay

#Sweet #Directors #Hollywood

I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood
-- Ava Gardner

#Sunrise #Hollywood #Actresses

Hollywood - that's a place where love is viewed both pragmatically and philosophically in the saying, 'Tis better to have loved and divorced than never to have had any publicity at all.
-- Ava Gardner

#Love Is #Publicity #Hollywood

I have my own style that happens to be different from everyone else in Hollywood. My inspiration is me.
-- Avril Lavigne

#Inspiration #Style #Hollywood

English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.
-- Bai Ling

#Thinking #Hong Kong #Hollywood

I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Names #History #Hollywood

Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.
-- Barry Diller

#Children #Community #Hollywood

I hold, as an article of faith, that the worth of an organisation can be accurately measured as the reciprocal of how many Hollywood beautiful people it attracts. It has never failed me yet.
-- Barry Williams

#Beautiful #People #Hollywood

There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Directors #Hollywood #Speak

We are increasingly offered a diet [by Hollywood] in which sensation, not story, is king.
-- Beeban Kidron

#Kings #Hollywood #Stories

Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed. Bela Lugosi.
-- Bela Lugosi

#Hollywood #Amusement #Type

If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible.
-- Ben Affleck

#Depressing #Thinking #Hollywood

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
-- Ben Hecht

#Sports #Brain #Hollywood

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.
-- Ben Hecht

#Honor #Dubious #Hollywood

In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
-- Ben Hecht

#Names #Hollywood #Thirty

It's Sir Ben. I've not been a Mister for two years.
-- Ben Kingsley

#Years #Two #Hollywood

There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.
-- Ben Stiller

#Hollywood #Use #Film

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
-- Berenice Bejo

#Talking #Directors #Hollywood

If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#New York #Apples #Hollywood

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#Democracy #Trying #Hollywood

I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#Thinking #Hollywood #Phases

I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe the world.
-- Bernie Mac

#Men #Hollywood #Stories

There's a danger in Hollywood of becoming self-obsessed.
-- Beth Broderick

#Self #Hollywood #Becoming

I like showing moms what it's really like having a baby, and how it's not Hollywood life.
-- Bethenny Frankel

#Mom #Baby #Hollywood

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
-- Bette Davis

#Reality #Hollywood #Realism

There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
-- Bette Davis

#Party #Acting #Hollywood

In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
-- Bill Condon

#Black #Hollywood #Maids

That's not how most of Hollywood does it-which helps to explain why Pixar does so well. How are you changing the game in your field? What is your distinctive take on how your industry operates? Do you work as distinctively as you compete?
-- Bill Taylor

#Education #Games #Hollywood

When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television.
-- Billy Campbell

#Dream #Escaping #Hollywood

A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone's scared to take a chance. There's money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
-- Billy Eichner

#Careers #People #Hollywood

So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again. Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
-- Billy Joel

#Goodbye #Baby #Hollywood