[On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It's a youth business.
Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.
I've been trying to bust into the comedy business my whole life. It's hard in Hollywood to do different things. I know this. It's a struggle.
You can get pigeonholed in Hollywood and people think of you in a certain way.
Catherine Zeta-Jones started out like me. Her big break in Hollywood was in 'Zorro.'
My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.
I've had a little Hollywood experience, and there's nothing like the Disney story experience.
I love hats, I'm such a fan of hats. You don't wear a fascinator everywhere you go, but there are ways to incorporate old Hollywood nuances into your looks today but also edge it up.
I had that perfect deadpan ... for these commercials. Within the first eight months I had eight national TV commercials. I'm a true Hollywood success story - knew no one, had no connections.
Growing up in Hollywood, like I did, I have a passion and a love for the movies, so I go to the cinema all the time.
As a woman who doesn't necessarily fit the beauty standard in Hollywood... I really related to the narrative of looking for something you felt comfortable in that would properly express your identity, especially when your identity didn't feel like it necessarily matched the one that was being imposed on you.
In Hollywood, you've got a hundred people on set, and shooting the sex scene you're wearing nude-toned underwear and tape on your nipples. Nothing is going beyond where you want it to go.
I pursued a theatre career, and Hollywood came calling.
I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.
Hollywood dishes out too much praise for small things I won't let it get me, but too much praise can turn a fellow's head if he doesn't watch his step.
When I first came out to L.A., Hollywoods idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen or heard of an Afro-Latina before.
In Hollywood, you grow up quick.
Hollywood is the only place in the world where an amicable divorce means each one gets fifty percent of the publicity.
I'll miss Hollywood. Of the twenty friends I thought I had, I'll miss the six I really had.
I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest
Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility.
I've always been sort of entrepreneurial. ... I felt that I needed to learn how to write and produce so I could write my own thing and not worry about Hollywood finding me.
If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.
I live in Hollywood, but you can't make me love Hollywood. I'll never love Hollywood.
Take my picture Hollywood. I wanna be STAR