Hollywood Quotes - Page 30

It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in it. It's not really our crowning achievement as a civilisation. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but it just bores me.

A misfit like me getting anywhere in Hollywood as I somehow have, seemed, certainly at the time of 'Spanking The Monkey,' kind of out of reach, or not a very realistic take.

It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.

I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.

Hollywood isn't ready for an Indian leading man.

Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn.

I'm from really humble beginnings. I've never been this Hollywood diva, but you get caught up in what you're pretending to be.

I'm in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood.

Growing older is not such a big deal for me, despite the fears that older actresses have in Hollywood. When I hit 40, for example, I didn't feel 40 - or whatever that is supposed to feel like.

I sort of look at some peers of mine and I think, 'No, you've got it all wrong!' I just want to tell them all to have babies and be happy and not get sucked into that Hollywood thing.

I'm in Hollywood right now, surrounded by nothing but the sons and grandsons of movie stars.

Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood.

The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

It's like prom night for Hollywood. I'm really proud of myself for being here.

Hollywood is a great place if you're an orange.

Film is universal. All the countries of the world are making films. Hollywood is the only major unsubsidized center for films. To my knowledge all others are at least partially subsidized. I'm glad Hollywood isn't.

After Hollywood, you know if people are interested in you or in the fact that you've been in a movie. You know who your real friends are.

That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense.

Security, for me, took a tumble not when I read that there were Communists in Hollywood but when I read your editorial in praise of loyalty testing and thought control. If a man is in health, he doesn't need to take anybody else's temperature to know where he is going.

Euthanasia is legal in Hollywood. They just kill the film if it doesn't succeed immediately.

Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row in the early 30's and, although I was still in my 20's, I demanded and received approval of cast, story and director. I don't know how I got away with it, but I did!

Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.

The one thing I have found about Hollywood is it's a town full of people who believe in themselves, often to a degree where they're what you would call "delusional."

Hollywood is a place where if you abide by the rules and laws, you can get depressed. That's why faith and spirituality is a higher law.

When Shana Alexander interviewed me for Life magazine in 1952, she gave up after 4,000. At one time or another, I've worked for every studio in Hollywood, for almost every director with most of the actors and actresses.