Hollywood Quotes - Page 8

To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight - it suggests at least a grand Hollywood-ready confrontation between good and evil - but to be coldly ripped off over and over again by a bunch of bloodless, second-rate schmoes, schmoes you chose, you elected, is not something anyone will take much pleasure in bragging about.

The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.

Hollywood is like an empty wastebasket.

I leave Hollywood, I go somewhere else and make some music, and then, when I have to go back to work, I try and take as much that I get from outside Hollywood back with me.

Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino.

Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.

Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.

So many creeps in Hollywood.

My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.

I would love to act. I probably won't make it to Hollywood at 42 years of age, but I'd love to act.

L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

When they were making black films in the '60s and the '70s, everyone knew their place, if you get my drift. You understand? Everyone knew the rules, and everyone knew their place. Everyone knew what to say. They had the written rules in Hollywood film, and the unwritten rules.

I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.

People don't have to be beautiful any more. We don't have any Audrey Hepburns, Rita Hayworths or Ava Gardeners. When you look at Al Pacino and the greatest actors in Hollywood they're all common-looking.

The Masonic aspect of Hollywood is so bizarre.

Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins.

Ive been told that if I lose weight Id have more work, but I refuse to submit myself to Hollywood standards. To the rest of the world I am slim and I like the way I am.

I never really worked in Hollywood. Some American producers came to Europe to shoot films with me, so it's a different situation... It was not my aim.

You have to remember that Hollywood is in the business of making movies that they can sell tickets to, they're not in the business of finding great roles for actors.

My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.

I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.

Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.

I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.

There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.