Hollywood, California abounds with famous quotations. Countless actors, actresses, producers, directors, musicians and writers have made the Hollywood entertainment industry world famous over the past century.
Here are literally hundreds of famous Hollywood quotations from some of the most famous --- and infamous --- personalities in Tinseltown history, all with something to say!
"If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is." -
Greta Garbo
"Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be." -
Lionel Barrymore
"Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles." -
William Petersen
"Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that." -
Lyn Nofziger
"Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe; it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood." -
Billy Wilder
"I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London." -
Leslie Caron
"Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room." -
Patricia Heaton
"It would be far to general a statement to try and describe the daily life of an actor in Hollywood, but I am quite certain that cappucinos have something to do with it." -
Corin Nemec
"Egos seem to be a lot more frequent. I've been to loads of parties that were just crazy - whatever you would call Hollywood parties - and it's not like piles of cocaine on the tables and chicks n*ked, running around." -
Ethan Suplee
"The Hollywood tradition I like best is called 'sucking up to the stars'." -
Johnny Carson
"Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called 'Cruise Control', where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened." -
Patricia Richardson
"Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down." -
Uwe Boll
"It's not what you are in Hollywood --- it's what people think you are." -
Robert Stack
"I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years." -
David Ogden Stiers
"They've great respect for the dead in Hollywood, but none for the living." -
Errol Flynn
"The attempt is that we want to get a couple of minutes under our belt, depending on how good the tests are and take that into Hollywood. The fallback is we're going to DVD anyways. We've got that covered." -
Todd McFarlane
"I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films." -
Laura Dern
"It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!" -
Naomi Watts
"I came in on the tail end of the old school of Hollywood." -
Tom Berenger
"In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness you send out for it." -
Rex Reed
"It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand." -
Mark Rydell
"I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood." -
Brion James
"My husband is someone who's in the real world. It's a big help that I don't have both feet in Hollywood." -
Jeri Ryan
"I am a child of Hollywood and dreams. To me, to be on the red carpet is the best place in the world." -
Steven Cojocaru
"Living in Hollywood is like living in a lit cigar butt." -
Phyllis Diller
"I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries." -
Leonard Maltin
"It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too." -
Candice Bergen
"I don't think I ever understood Hollywood." -
Gloria Grahame
"My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out." -
Leigh Steinberg
"I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with 'sex symbol' or 'bombshell' hanging over her has a rough road ahead." -
Kim Basinger
"Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood." -
Ryan Phillippe
"If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing." -
Roger Ebert
"I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here." -
Kim Novak
"My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very difficult to get work so when I was born they put me into dance classes and singing classes as soon as I could walk actually." -
Morgan Brittany
"I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. I ruins the fantasy." -
Sarah Brightman
"I've seen it too many times in Hollywood. Talking about a relationship in public can jinx it. And if you have your picture taken together, you might as well start packing your bags." -
Gina Gershon
"Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other." -
Ann Beattie
"When I first came here, Hollywood was very closed-minded." -
Tia Carrere
"I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood." -
Esther Williams
It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade with no rooms inside." -
David O. Selznick
"Hollywood have been in touch; they want to make a movie of my life." -
Mark Roberts
"I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things like that." -
Gavin MacLeod
"I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it." -
Christopher Atkins
"The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles." -
Steve Guttenberg
"Hollywood is more forgiving than the church." -
Richard Rossi
"Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer." -
Kent McCord
"I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that." -
Patrick Marber
"West Hollywood is predominantly gay, so every man that came into the grocery store was shopping for his boyfriend." -
Jeri Ryan
"I've chosen not to live in Hollywood, and instead I live in Brooklyn, New York. It's how I like to live. I'd rather hang out with my kids and family when I'm not working. Going to premieres is not my idea of a fun night out." -
Jennifer Connelly
"Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality." -
Grace Kelly
"It's actually great to shoot far away from Hollywood because we don't have the distractions of the parties and premieres and all that. And, of course, you can save money - there are no good shoe stores." -
Katie Holmes
"So many people aren't ready for Hollywood - professionally or practically." -
John Ratzenberger
"It's nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film as long as it is the right thing to do." -
Neil Jordan
"And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press." -
Patricia Heaton
" I have been asked if I ever get the DTs. I don't know. It's hard to tell where Hollywood ends and the DTs begin." -
W. C. Fields
"And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet." -
Joe Eszterhas
"Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it." -
Cesar Romero
"Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project." -
Sherilyn Fenn
"More than seven months ago, our country learned that the horrors portrayed in Hollywood's make-believe world could actually come to life before our very eyes." -
Paul Gillmor
"Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution." -
Jane Fonda
"We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do." -
Yahoo Serious
"And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood." -
Skitch Henderson
"You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know 'I Dream of Jeanie' had been canceled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room." -
Larry Hagman
"In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame." -
Annette Funicello
"But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them." -
Christopher Dawson
"Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained o*gy farm --- its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can find." -
Veronica Lake
"The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening." -
Brenda Blethyn
"Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it." -
Robin Wright Penn
"I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life." -
Sydney Pollack
"Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do." -
Anthony Anderson
"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." -
James Woods
"I've continued to always keep in mind having a healthy does of that in Hollywood, now that I am part of the system and obviously have to follow the way the system works - you still have to have that crazy determination." -
Renny Harlin
"I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways." -
Roland Emmerich
"Personally, I'm not much of a one for Hollywood parties. I like my work and when I'm done, I like to enjoy the privacy in my house with my wife and daughter. To me, being at home with them is glamorous." -
Antonio Banderas
"It was a few days later I came out to Hollywood for a screen test, and so did a lot of other people. So, I really didn't think I would get it. I was definitely the one that was least likely to get it, because everyone else was an already established star." -
Mary Steenburgen
"Hollywood movies are run on fear and they don't want to make bold choices. They, generally, speaking want to keep things status quo. That's not really interesting for me." -
Kyra Sedgwick
"In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for." -
Anthony Michael Hall
"It seems the farther away we are from Hollywood, the better the ratings." -
Martin Milner
"No one 'goes Hollywood' --- they were that way before they came here. Hollywood just exposed it." -
Ronald Reagan
"Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are." -
Bonnie Hunt
"You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood." -
Tyne Daly
"But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it." -
Lara Flynn Boyle
"If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy." -
Roger Ebert
"I went out there, to Hollywood, for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday." -
Nelson Algren
"Hollywood is not good when it comes to age." -
Kyle MacLachlan
"An audience is going to be able to find a little bit of Dorothy in themselves and relate to this woman.: roles like Dorothy Day are so rare in Hollywood." -
Moira Kelly
"And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit." -
John Frankenheimer
"People in Hollywood are going make pictures wherever it's the least expensive to make them." -
Wayne Rogers
"Do you know how many plastic surgeries are done to the actors and actresses in Hollywood?" -
Joseph Jackson
"The convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money." -
Lillian Hellman
"It's tough when take 1 is technically okay and take 2 has better acting. Out here (Hollywood) they print the first one. That's the one where we all hit the mark on the floor and who cares about the acting." -
Judy Holliday
"This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it." -
Christian Slater
"It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out." -
Laura Hillenbrand
"Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger." -
Greta Scacchi
"Hollywood is bounded on the north, south, east and west by agents." -
William Fadiman
"I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite." -
Josh Lucas
"Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job." -
Laura Dern
"There are so many things I'd like to change in the industry. Everything from the reliance of style over substance to their reluctance to hire me for big budget blockbusters, but the thing I would love most would be if they understood people don't have to be Hollywood beautiful to be sexy or interesting." -
Colin Mochrie
"Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool." -
Liv Ullman
"I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films." -
Ken Burns
"Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting." -
Lorna Luft
"Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread." -
Dirk Benedict
"I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks." -
Jerry Mathers
"Hollywood always sounds glamorous when you're young." -
Patricia Neal
"Hollywood is very much an industry town. Your life becomes caught up in all of the parties and this list and that list. That's not something that I respond well to." -
Don Johnson
"If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birth date. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine's Day. I said no." -
Cesar Romero
"I think I have always tried to do the smaller films. I like to jump around and there is something really nice for acting in a smaller film. But I think now, Hollywood's movies certainly involve a younger generation for the most part and so... I love going back and forth." -
Sigourney Weaver
"Well, I was getting a lot of money then, and I wasn't getting any Hollywood films, so I just did those. I'd always do a play in between. Whenever I ran low on funds, I'd always rush off to do a movie somewhere." -
Eli Wallach
"Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood." -
Richard O'Brien
"I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood." -
Kathleen Turner
"I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four." -
Radha Mitchell
"Hollywood's beauty standard is so strict. Even though I may not be their ideal, it doesn't mess me up. I feel like some of those money guys are the guys from my high school who didn't find me attractive." -
Elizabeth Taylor
"There are thousands of directors in Hollywood." -
Penelope Spheeris
"Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal." -
Suzanne Fields
"Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they'll go to see them. It's still the same." -
Javier Bardem
"As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making." -
Harold Ramis
"I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain." -
Ben Hecht
"As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around." -
Patrick Stewart
"I never took to Hollywood." -
Kathleen Turner
"There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway." -
Elia Kazan
"That's all gone now, the old Hollywood." -
Warren Beatty
"Isn't Hollywood a dump --- in the human sense of the word? A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement." -
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted." -
Andrew Lloyd Webber
"Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood." -
Gloria Swanson
"Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be." -
Trey Parker
"Hollywood looks to these young people now to say something to the world. I have nothing against that, I think a lot of people have things to say. But I think you need life experience." -
Sasha Alexander
"Hollywood isn't your cesspool, America. It's your mirror." -
Bill Maher
"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
"It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and it will expand into more than one production house." -
Ann Macbeth
"There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood." -
Fay Wray
"A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do." -
Douglas Sirk
"It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope." -
Manuel Puig
"I think there is a predisposition among Christians that Hollywood is anti-Jesus or anti-Christianity. I was warned I'd have to fight to maintain the freedom to express my beliefs. It's an unfair stereotype and, so far, that's been the farthest from the truth." -
Clay Aiken
"I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic." -
Lorna Luft
"I don't think the Hollywood community is interested in what I can do. That's all right. I've never looked for a job in my life, and I'm not going to start now. I have plenty to keep me busy." -
Mercedes McCambridge
"I find Hollywood really toxic." -
Rachel Weisz
"Failure is regarded in Hollywood as practically a contagious disease; people will literally cross the road to avoid someone who is tainted with it." -
Barry Norman
"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
"But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter." -
Patrick Macnee
"Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star." -
Liza Minelli
"Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box." -
Dirk Benedict
"In Hollywood, the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of 'Variety' is an actor. I don't think there's a real person left in the place." -
Neil Gaiman
"At the end. First start off and do your youth thing In Hollywood and then go to New York later. But it wound up being later, later than I thought it was going to be." -
Delta Burke
"Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything." -
Bruce Davison
"No one has a closest friend in Hollywood." -
Sheilah Graham
"Today, the only thing Hollywood swears by is space adventures because that's what goes over well. For my part, I trust my instinct and I make the films I believe in. If the public follows me, that's wonderful. If it doesn't follow, 'c'est la vie'." -
Clint Eastwood
"How did I get to Hollywood? By train." -
John Ford
"I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him." -
Gene Tierney
"Hollywood is a world all its own." -
Moira Kelly
"I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood." -
Robin Wright Penn
"In Hollywood, a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo." -
Marilyn Monroe
"I consider myself a student of Hollywood." -
Rob Morrow
"It's so crazy in Hollywood." -
David Spade
"In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly." -
Catherine Zeta-Jones
"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." -
James Earl Jones
"It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them." -
Lana Turner
"I've learned by hanging out in Hollywood, where I disagree politically with most people, that most people's hearts are in the right place, and the only thing we have to argue about is the way to solve the problems." -
Tom Selleck
"I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood." -
Radha Mitchell
"Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946." -
Burt Lancaster
"You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else." -
Priscilla Presley
"I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood." -
Victoria Jackson
"I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last.' -
Alan Ladd
"The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy." -
Sylvester Stallone
"When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset." -
Salma Hayek
"Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story." -
Chris Farley
"I don't think about Hollywood at all." -
Alex Cox
"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." -
Christine Baranski
"When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood." -
Jeffrey Hunter
"Hollywood wants press, any kind of press." -
Christopher Atkins
"Most Americans in both red and blue states reject and resent the message being sent by Hollywood and some in the media that values are subjective, to be defined by the individual and not by God." -
Trent Lott
"Everybody steals from everybody. That's Hollywood." -
Jon Favreau
"Don't ever humiliate a man. If you're gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do it that way. That's the one thing I don't like about Hollywood: They go in for public humiliation. You shouldn't do that to a man." -
Rip Torn
"In Hollywood, she's revered, she gets nominated for Oscars, but I've never heard anyone in the public or among my friends say, 'Oh, I love Winona Ryder'.'' -
Jennifer Lopez
"At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!" -
John Hughes
"Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie." -
Jerry Stiller
"So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts." -
Ewan McGregor
"Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses." -
Kevin Nealon
"I'll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working." -
Ashton Kutcher
"I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing." -
Etta James
"The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication." -
Patti Smith
"I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood." -
Mac Davis
"I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else." -
Lena Horne
"I think what Hollywood has done for so long, is make movies for themselves." -
David Hunt
"Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors." -
Walter Winchell
"You know, it's not the people in Hollywood who go to see movies that will make a movie successful; it's the people all around the country; it's word-of-mouth." -
Pia Zadora
"Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older." -
Jamie Lee Curtis
"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 realized how special and unusual it is." -
Francesca Annis
"Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls." -
Julia Phillips
"It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage." -
Sophia Bush
"Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood." -
David Hockney
"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." -
Channing Tatum
"In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it." -
Scott Caan
"Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood." -
Pauly Shore
"There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress." -
Eva Gabor
"You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well." -
Carrie Fisher
"There's nothing the matter with Hollywood that a good earthquake couldn't cure." -
Moss Hart
"Because someone stole Gregory Peck's star on Hollywood Blvd., I have hired a Brink's guard to protect my star!' -
Rip Taylor
"At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia." -
Philip Zimbardo
"Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons." -
Gerard Butler
"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
"Being a screenwriter in Hollywood is like being a eunuch at an o*gy. Worse, actually, at least the eunuch is allowed to watch." -
Albert Brooks
"This is the place to see the stars - Hollywood Bowl." -
Mahalia Jackson
"Maybe when I'm 75 and living in the south of France, after everyone I want to b*tch about is already dead, then I may want to talk about my life in Hollywood." -
Tracey Ullman
"I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men." -
Imogen Cunningham
"Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make." -
Drew Carey
"After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully." -
Maureen O'Hara
"The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we've lost something, and we don't know how to get it back." -
Roy Rogers
"In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet." -
Will Smith
"I realized there was very little in Hollywood I would ever feel comfortable doing. If I kept one foot there and one foot in my Christianity, I would never grow." -
Willie Aames
"I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter." -
Glenn Danzig
"It'd be like what would happen if Hollywood took over p*rno: 'If we keep their clothes on and they didn't have sex, we'd be able to sell it to a lot more people'." -
Rob Zombie
"New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something." -
John Cusack
"Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel." -
Oscar Levant
"Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right." -
Steve Harvey
"There couldn't have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It's beyond baseball. It's rooting for your family." -
Jimmy Fallon
"Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking." -
Robert Duvall
"In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems." -
Shelley Winters
"I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money." -
David Mamet
"I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood." -
Tyler Perry
"Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks." -
Alistair Cooke
"This summer, I'll be bringing out a mystery that involves a young lawyer and a court scene the likes of which I don't think you've ever seen. Hollywood said this is James Patterson meets John Grisham." -
James Patterson
"Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production." -
Angela Carter
"I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me." -
Sammy Davis, Jr.
"There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard." -
James Caan
"Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood." -
Erica Jong
"I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced." -
Quentin Tarantino
"On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking." -
Kid Rock
"Hollywood's got its own particular environment." -
Harrison Ford
"There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it." -
Ben Stiller
"I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen." -
Jerry Falwell
"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
"In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally." -
W. Somerset Maugham
"In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'." -
Jackie Chan
"People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together." -
Jackie Collins
"People ask me if I ever feel outside the Hollywood loop, and I never do, because both of us do a lot of theatre, so it's great for New York and it's also half-way between Europe and the west coast, so it's the best of both worlds." -
Liam Neeson
"I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum." -
Robert De Niro
"I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me." -
Barbra Streisand
"I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story." -
Sidney Sheldon
"The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true." -
Hedy Lamarr
"You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not." -
Adam Sandler
"Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation." -
Orson Welles
"I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts." -
Angelina Jolie
"Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch." -
Dennis Miller
"Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder." -
William Faulkner
"It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty." -
Johnny Depp
"I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times." -
Steven Spielberg
"I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood." -
Eric Cantona
"I don't even take myself seriously, so how could I possibly take Hollywood seriously?" -
Brittany Murphy
"There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does." -
Dean Martin
"To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was." -
Nicholas Sparks
"If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology." -
Jay Leno
"Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild." -
Nicolas Cage
"I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded." -
Megan Fox
"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
"The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money." -
Marlon Brando
"I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of color. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood." -
Denzel Washington
"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul." -
Marilyn Monroe
"Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner." -
Walt Disney
"In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time." -
Will Rogers
"You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town." -
Michael Jackson
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." -
Andy Warhol
"Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment." -
Joan Crawford
"In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom." -
Groucho Marx
"There are omly three ages for women in Hollywood: Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy." -
Goldie Hawn
"They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood." -
Bob Hope
"I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience." -
Wilson Mizner
"The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend." -
Katharine Hepburn
"Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism." -
Bette Davis
"In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk." -
Rita Rudner
"In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity." -
Lauren Bacall
"I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself." -
Jack Nicholson
"Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars." -
Fred Allen
"I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were." -
Elvis Presley
"I don't think Hollywood knows any kids; by the time they get here they aren't kids anymore." -
Dick Clark
"Hollywood --- It feels so good." -
The Runaways
