Hollywood Quotes - Page 21

I hope I can make some Hollywood-type action films like 'Batman' or 'Spiderman', action films like that. With some wire work, maybe wearing a mask. Like that.

Making a Hollywood film you don't have a very big movie because they have a Safety Captain and insurance people on the set. They have to check first. 'Don't do it. Let me check. Make sure everything is safe.'

I thought I should forget Hollywood and go back to Hong Kong. I'm so lucky that finally Hollywood accepts my comedy fighting.

When I came to Hollywood, I spoke no English - except nobody bullied me. Every day, I had nothing to do except training in English, to keep talking.

In Hollywood, they put the knife in your front; in D.C., they put it in your back. I found far fewer duplicitous people in Hollywood.

In Hollywood, you're never any better than your last picture.

[Hollywood] is obviously so fake, but then comedy is this little carve-out of sincerity. I love it. I get to be funny and do this.

I figured, when I make a movie, especially earlier in my career, one thing I was going to make sure was that the movie doesn't cost a lot and that it has potential to make a lot of money. That's how you get respect in Hollywood.

I'm cheaper than Anthony Hopkins. The other actors they asked to play Gandalf wouldn't go to New Zealand on that money for that length of time. I thought it would be a bit of an adventure. Tony Hopkins didn't think it would be an adventure. Tony is part of Hollywood. I'm an eccentric English actor, and there's a lot of us around.

Hollywood isn't a place, it's a way of life.

I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.

Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

Hollywood allows you to go and express yourself.

2007 began on a high for me because I had the honour of having my name added the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame.

Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger.

Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.

Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.

I dont think theres a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter.

Everyone thinks L.A. is the beach. And actually, Hollywood is really far from the beach.

Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons.

The actors I was most impressed with and who were influencing my taste were all movie actors, so I always wanted to do movies but I didnt want to go to Hollywood and become a waiter in the meantime. The chances are really slim that an actor will be discovered in Hollywood. ... Ive never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.

In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.

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.

I think what destroys Hollywood marriages is our work schedule, not so much infidelity.