Hollywood Quotes - Page 17

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.

I wanted people to see that I really am a real person. I'm not just some guy who was on a TV show, some guy engulfed in the Hollywood life. I'm just a normal guy when it comes down to it.

I don't just want to be another cog in the gears of Hollywood.

I'm sporting some really blonde hair because I live in Hollywood and I'm an actress.

My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.

The only reason I wanted to get one [a star on Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame] was because Simon Cowell didn't have one.

There's something about the authenticity that Hollywood is missing when it comes to urban culture.

Broadway producers are happy to have a big Hollywood name they can post on the marquee, but most of them assume that television and film stars really can't handle stage work. Too often, they're right.

'Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.

In Hollywood, as I've often said, if you don't sing or dance, you end up as an after-dinner speaker.

We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but I consider the profession about the most debased and debasing I know.

On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.

They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.

Hollywood is wonderful. Anyone who doesn't like it is either crazy or sober.

I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.

I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.

I find Hollywood really toxic.

I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.

I see characters lying all the time in a lot of Hollywood movies. They can't do this because it would affect the movie this way or that or this demographic might not like it. To me a character can't do anything good or bad, they can only do something that's true or not.

Hollywood has gone from Pola to Polaroid.

If I had stayed in Hollywood, I would have killed myself. Or someone would have done it for me.

The zero-sum world [the movie The Social Network] portrayed has nothing in common with the Silicon Valley I know, but I suspect it's a pretty accurate portrayal of the dysfunctional relationships that dominate Hollywood.

I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows.

The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.