Hollywood Quotes

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.
Jamie Foxx

Life, Sports, Athlete

In looking at Hollywood and its structure, the director controls the medium, and I want to be in control of certain things. I want to be able to get my own ideas and my own feelings out there, and the only way to do that is to be behind the camera.
Jamie Foxx

Feelings, Control, Able

A lot of Hollywood couples get married young and wind up growing out of their relationship.
Patti Stanger

Young, Married, Wind

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

Before, Story, Writer

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
Raymond Chandler

Books, Worse, Invited

I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move there. It's very much an industry town and that doesn't really interest me.
Juliette Binoche

Movie, Move, Interest

In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing.
Christopher Nolan

Good, Great, Bad

You know when Hollywood does a great big blockbuster that really wraps you up in a world, and lets you believe in extraordinary things that move you in some way, in an almost operatic sensibility? That to me is the most fun I have at the movies.
Christopher Nolan

Great, Movies, Fun

But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it's done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it.
Christopher Nolan

Experience, Movies, Mind

I've always been proud of my body, my Jewish nose and all of that. Hollywood's Hollywood, but that's not going to change.
Lea Michele

Change, Proud, Body

I've had the two procedures that probably every other woman in Hollywood has had done.
Tori Spelling

Woman, Done, Two

I want to be a positive role-model for my daughter. The last thing I want to put out there is that it's acceptable to be too thin or have an eating disorder because you're in Hollywood.
Tori Spelling

Positive, Put, Last

People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids!' I grew up in Hollywood, and I'm perfectly fine. If my children want to go into the entertainment business, I won't stop them, as long as they're passionate about it.
Tori Spelling

Business, Children, Long

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.
Ice T

Future, Put, Stories

Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.
Sally Field

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

Life, Face, Total

When the script for 'The Wrestler' kept coming to me I said, This movie is so good if you put me in the film as a wrestler people are going to say, 'No credibility, Hulk Hogan isn't a good actor,' whatever Hollywood thinks of me.
Hulk Hogan

Good, Put, Said

If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!
Helen Reddy

Laugh, Here, Tell

I didn't come to Hollywood to get on magazine covers or start my Porsche collection or to enjoy that kind of lifestyle, to go to the right parties and meet the right people.
Wentworth Miller

Enjoy, Start, Meet

My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.
Carol Burnett

Mother, Mean, Away

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
Manuel Puig

Life, Hope, Matter

Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth.
Marlee Matlin

Good, Different, Youth

I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.
Marlee Matlin

Good, Best, Tell

What the Bleep Do We Know was not written with a deaf person in mind, but when they met me, it clicked with them to have me in it. But that happens with a lot of actors in Hollywood, not just with me.
Marlee Matlin

Mind, Person, Happens

Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make that any man anywhere.
Sharon Stone

I've made humanitarian causes and my children much more my priority than the Hollywood scene, being liked and getting movie parts.
Sharon Stone

Children, Made, Getting

Sometimes I watch the broad comedies coming out of Hollywood and I think, 'You know, sex is a big part of people's lives, but is that really the only thing men are ever concerned about?' People are more complicated than they appear in film or television.
Josh Radnor

Men, Sex, Sometimes

'Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.
Roseanne Barr

Money, Power, Winning

It's really disgusting what Hollywood can do to a guy.
Ron Perlman

Guy, Disgusting

You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.
Rainn Wilson

Famous, Sure, Meet

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