Hollywood Quotes - page 4

The factors that laid low so whooping and puissant an empire as the old Hollywood are many. I can think of a score, including the barbarian hordes of Television. But there is one that stands out for me in the post-mortem.... The factor had to do with the basis of movie-making: ‘Who shall be in charge of telling the story.' (Ben Hecht)
I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money. View quote
David Mamet
Hollywood is a place where some people lie on the beach and look up at the stars, whereas other people lie on the stars and look down at the beach. View quote
Noël Coward
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation. View quote
Walter Winchell
I think there is a predisposition among Christians that Hollywood is anti-Jesus or anti-Christianity. I was warned I'd have to fight to maintain the freedom to express my beliefs. It's an unfair stereotype, and so far that's been the farthest from the truth. While everyone I work with may not share my beliefs, I have been surrounded by nothing but support. View quote
Clay Aiken
It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide. View quote
Charlie Hunnam
Taking a year off and going to school was the best thing I could have done after The Princess Diaries. It taught me that I don't need Hollywood or a job to make me happy. View quote
Anne Hathaway
As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called 'a little crazy'. And now I guess I'm still that way. View quote
Leonardo DiCaprio
The last thing I want to turn into is a fat Hollywood jerk. I was brought up without much money and I was happy. I don't think that I will strive for money or success and end up greedy or big-headed. That only leads to unhappiness. I can still be down-to-earth and do this job as long as I enjoy it. View quote
Leonardo DiCaprio
I've been in the business since I was 16, so I've had a 14-year career. I've always had acting in my blood. Doing this, whatever it is, was something I was drawn to since my earliest memories. Ironically, I lived in Hollywood, but never understood that all it took was getting an agent and being persistent. View quote
Leonardo DiCaprio
I lived in Hollywood and, ironically, I didn't know you could just go out and get an agent and go on auditions and try and become an actor, I thought it was like a Masonic thing, like a blood line you had to belong to - until I was 13. Then I realised what you had to do. It is the one thing I know I want to do for the rest of my life. (Leonardo DiCaprio)
I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools. View quote
Al Pacino
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me. View quote
Barbra Streisand
I want to thank some very special people without whom I would not be here today. George Bush, Sarah Palin and the Pope. When I came to Hollywood in 1983, I had one dream- to sleep with Jodie Foster. That didn't work out, but this is nice, too. View quote
Bill Maher
Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry. View quote
Hedy Lamarr
Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents. View quote
Jean-Luc Godard
Tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, hippie, tie-dyed liberals [in Hollywood should]... go make their movies and their music and whine somewhere else.... It's just too damn bad we didn't buy them a ticket [to become human shields in Iraq]. View quote
Jim Gibbons
Those individuals from the far left, and I'm talking about the Hollywood elitists and the United Nations and those individuals want us to believe it's because we are contributing CO2 to the atmosphere, that's causing global warming. It's all about money. I mean, what would happen to the Weather Channel's ratings if all the sudden people weren't scared anymore? View quote
James Inhofe
I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times. View quote
Steven Spielberg
Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. (Fred Allen)
It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope. View quote
Manuel Puig
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. View quote
Marlee Matlin
I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood. View quote
Marlee Matlin
Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it. View quote
Robin Wright