Hollywood Quotes - Page 55

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.

Acting was just outside of the realm of possibility for me. I grew up in L.A. and around Hollywood but I literally never, honestly, considered it.

The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, 'Who won the Oscar last year?'

Dealing with Hollywood and commercial entertainment, you always have to worry that the political message is going to be skewed or obscured.

I always joke around with my parents and say that if Hollywood doesn't work out I'll go to Broadway!

There has to be a reason of whether you look right or you bring the emotional or intellectual baggage of what's required for the storytelling. For me, it's not something I've aspired to say, "I'm going to be working in Hollywood."

In fact, most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working.

Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.

There were Hollywood movies and then there were those aggressively anti-narrative films that they showed at the Collective for Living Cinema.

Each time I get off a plane in Hollywood, I don't think I'm pretty enough.

If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic

If I hadn't gone into acting, I would have been one of those weird runaways on Hollywood Boulevard. No, it'd be uglier. I'd probably be dead.

I guess being French, I love Hollywood. I love Hollywood movies. Joseph Mankiewicz's 'All About Eve.' 'Mildred Pierce.'

I've never been to a Hollywood party, although I imagine that it might be fun.

Hollywood's just not funny.

I'm sure I can't relate to what females go through in Hollywood, but I do know what it feels like to eat emotionally. To be sad and make yourself happy with food, and then be almost immediately sad again, and then ashamed. Then, you try to hide those feelings with more food.

People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.

I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.

All Hollywood endings - the bad endings have to be the bad guys to be falling about 50 stories to his death and you have to see his eyeballs as he goes to his doom.

Isn't Hollywood - and I love movies - a lot of it about a big lie?

I've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own show.

There's a certain thought process about actors that they are in Hollywood and they sit around pools and get suntans and just get offered jobs.

When I started in the late nineties, it was all about young Hollywood. There were jobs for all of us if you were 18 to 21, were slightly good looking, or could be funny.

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

In Hollywood, what they last saw you in is what you are. It's hard to break away from that.