Hollywood Quotes - Page 5

I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow.

I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.

Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.

There is tremendous inequity in Hollywood and politics, and I would say globally it's challenging to be a woman and succeed.

I think everybody else in Hollywood, including network execs, has the opportunity to ask for a raise or a change in scenery in a much shorter time frame than actors. But I do think the networks have to protect themselves.

Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.

This is hilarious. First, people say how so many actresses in Hollywood look anorexic, and now they are criticizing me for looking normal. Body images are too often adopted by young girls and women - thanks to what they are constantly being shown as being attractive.

Hollywood's old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies.

It’s literally true, as Shakespeare said--all the world’s a stage. It wasn’t that way when I first got into the movies in 1924, but it is now. That’s why I find Hollywood newer and more exciting every day. Whatever you hear it’s still a place where a kid from Montana can jump on a horse, ride that-a-way, and keep right on going.

I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.

Youth and nepotism, the twin horsemen of Hollywood!

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

The worst disgrace that can befall a producer is an unkind notice from a New York reviewer. When this happens, the producer becomes a pariah in Hollywood. He is shunned by his friends, thrown into bankruptcy, and like a Japanese electing hara-kiri, he commits suttee.

Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.

Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world.

There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic.

How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?

As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films.

What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait

In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

In Hollywood, writers are considered only the first draft of human beings.

This is Hollywood. People don't admit mistakes.