Best Hollywood Quotes

That’s all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.

Every Black filmmaker you love, has at least 10 projects that he can’t get made in Hollywood. Sequels that fans scream for, don’t get made because of the system in place. The world is missing out and it’s a shame cause the money is there 10 folds.

Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It’s not going to do me any good.

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?’.

Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.

You can’t find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy ‘fetishization’ of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood?

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.

If a young woman is looking at the landscape of Hollywood, what she sees is almost only challenges.

Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.

Like the tectonic plate it sits upon, Hollywood is subject to seismic jolts and constant tremors. Each season erupts with a new champion, and every so often a genuine earthquake will tear down the apparently secure infrastructure.

Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different and critics say we [directors] make the same thing again and again in Hollywood, then you go and make something different and you get kicked in the gut for it.

Broke is a Hollywood term!

I grew up in Hollywood but not in any rich neighborhood.

It’s really hard to meet good women in Hollywood.

In Hollywood, you’ve got a hundred people on set, and shooting the sex scene you’re wearing nude-toned underwear and tape on your nipples. Nothing is going beyond where you want it to go.

My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

When I’m back at home it’s just reality. I kind of separate myself from Hollywood.

I don’t want to sell my soul to Hollywood – to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.

My goal has been to learn how to get movies made without losing sight of the reasons I began. I have had to learn to recognize the insidious nature of the beast without becoming one.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.

When I went to Hollywood in 1927, the girls were wearing lumpy sweaters and skirts. I was wearing sleek suits and half naked beaded gowns and piles and piles of furs.

I was born in Connecticut. But my parents brought my sister and I to L.A. when-Hollywood, actually, when i was 6 months old.

The last couple of years were hell. Like, I can’t even tell you, it was so hard. I didn’t know how to handle it. But I think I’m in a much better place now, because I stepped away for a second and took a breath. Hollywood is a funny place. It offers so much, but it can also take a lot away from you.

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.

Ah, stardom! They put your name on a star in the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard and you walk down and find a pile of dog manure on it. That tells the whole story, baby.

I’ve dodged all sorts of bullets in Hollywood to get my movies made. I’m tough.

I may be the only actress in Hollywood who won’t need a face lift, because when I take off my makeup, I look so great compared to my characters!

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.

I’ve had a little Hollywood experience, and there’s nothing like the Disney story experience.

Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.