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Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it. — Joyce DeWitt

I never desired to really go to Hollywood and make films, and purely because I want my entire control, which I'm used to having. — Nicolas Winding Refn

I couldn't hack it in Hollywood, my writing's wasn't bad enough. — Russ Lippitt

It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's black. — Will Smith

I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood. — Mallory Jansen

Hollywood likes to label everyone so you're easier to identify. — Katherine Heigl

After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there's no better place for new ideas than comics. — Brian K. Vaughan

I don't care about Hollywood films. I'm not against Hollywood films, you know? Hollywood films were very good before, in the 1950s. — Gerard Depardieu

I majored in theater at San Diego State. My one eye was on football, and my other eye was on Hollywood. — Carl Weathers

If you look at the people in Hollywood who are heavy partiers, they're selfish, self-centered and egotistical. — Danny Trejo

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

Anything can happen in Hollywood, even good things. — J.P. Mac

Every sacred cow in the business has to do with economics. — Gena Rowlands

I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, 'Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?' — Ang Lee

I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios. — Skitch Henderson

Washington D.C. politics is like Hollywood for ugly people. — Ted Cruz

India is a great talent pool of actors. I see Freida Pinto making it big in Hollywood, and I am sure many others can also make it. — Michelle Yeoh

As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene. — Steve Schirripa

If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused. — Lance Armstrong

As an Asian actor, I would like once in my life to do just one Hollywood movie. It would be a memorable experience. — Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art. — Diane Lane

I don't like the climate, the people, their way of life. Nothing ever happens and then one morning you wake up and find that you are 65. — William Faulkner

Hollywood is an illusion. These intense workplaces, with very close relationships, a few months at a time - and then it ends. — John C. Reilly

The war for the Internet has begun. Hollywood is in control of politics. The government is killing innovation. — Kim Dotcom

One of the things that drives me crazy is the belief in Hollywood that bittorrent exists solely for stealing things. — Wil Wheaton

You can't break through Hollywood formulaic points of view. I've tried, and I think I was more successful than anybody at doing it. — Roseanne Barr

When people used to ask me why I got involved with Hollywood films, I would say jokingly that it was for the health insurance. — Spalding Gray

Sometimes it's good to be the smartest rat in the sewer. — Michael Houbrick

In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet. — Will Smith

I know a couple of my friends - quite a few - there is a conservative movement in Hollywood, and we kind of stay amongst ourselves. — Robert Davi

I live in Hollywood, but you can't make me love Hollywood. I'll never love Hollywood. — Lady Gaga

I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched. — Bryan Adams

There are no awards in Hollywood for being an idiot. — Burt Reynolds

I never had a desire to leave mainstream Hollywood. And still don't think that I've left mainstream Hollywood. — Kirk Cameron

I don't hang out at trendy Hollywood bars. — Anton Yelchin

In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids. — Bill Condon

I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway. — Damian McGinty

I'm not young. What's wrong with that? — Vivien Leigh

If you go back all the way to the 1920s, filmmakers in Hollywood changed the identity of villains from German to Russian. — Evan Osnos

I don't hang out with the Hollywood cool people. I'm not out trying to make friends with people because they're famous. — Jessica Alba

I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin. — Marcia Gay Harden

I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain. — Yasmine Bleeth

I've been trying to bust into the comedy business my whole life. It's hard in Hollywood to do different things. I know this. It's a struggle. — Luke Wilson

When I was a teenager, my dad used to call me 'Hollywood' because I wore sunglasses all the time, even at night. Cue song. — Michael Weatherly

I probably wouldn't be acting if I didn't grow up in Hollywood. — Rashida Jones

Sometimes you have to control your own life and to do that you have to put your own needs first. — Jen Calonita

In Hollywood it seems that you're considered gay until proven otherwise. — Ryan Seacrest

Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings. — Marlon Brando

Change happens whether you want it to or not. And sometimes, like now, it's for the best. — Jen Calonita

I had told my agents that I never wanted to do an hour-long TV show. I said, "I'm not that stupid." Because it's the worst lifestyle in Hollywood. — Geena Davis

There couldn't have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It's beyond baseball. It's rooting for your family. — Jimmy Fallon

The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days. — Gabrielle Union

As a dancer, I'd dance with broken toes. Just like acting, you compete with yourself and drive forward. That discipline helped in Hollywood. — Jaime Pressly

If people want to believe in Hollywood movies, let them believe in Hollywood movies. Being romantic is not a disease. — Ioana-Cristina Casapu

My mother and my sisters - five girls - were crazy about glamour and Hollywood movies. I styled myself on Veronica Lake and Marlene Dietrich. — Jerry Hall

I consider myself a student of Hollywood. — Rob Morrow

Hollywood is obsessed with police stories. — Ice Cube

I arrived in Hollywood and lived much of my life in America, but the fans did not really know me. — Persis Khambatta

In Hollywood, they say good news finds you. — Jane Velez-Mitchell

I never thought about movies. I never thought about Hollywood. It was just being on the stage and being in New York. — Chris Eigeman

I'll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working. — Ashton Kutcher

If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too? — Jon Voight

I would never complain that Hollywood is racist when I'm one of the people touted as a welcome entity there. — Morgan Freeman

You have to hold your teeth clamped around Hollywood to keep from chewing on stray blondes. — Raymond Chandler

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough. — Conrad Veidt

You can really call Irene Dunne 'The First Lady of Hollywood', because she's the first real lady Hollywood has ever seen. — Leo McCarey

Junior writers $300; Minor poets - $500 a week; Broken novelists - $850-1000; One play dramatists - $1500; Sucks - $2000. Wits - $2500. — F Scott Fitzgerald

You do not need to look or be anorexic to be successful in Hollywood. The range of what's acceptable is a lot larger than what people believe. — Zooey Deschanel

We could debate whether movies reflect or create the reality. It's clear to me they do both. — Alex Tizon

I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East. — Yasmine Al Masri

For actors in Hollywood, it's very straightforward. We're well-paid animals in a zoo. — Robin Wright

Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs. — Gregory Harrison

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms. — Groucho Marx

I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood. — Nathan Lane

Being anti-war in Hollywood was an act of bravery on the order of the keynote speaker at a PLO dinner making jokes about Ariel Sharon. — Ann Coulter

Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, two publications read more faithfully in Hollywood than the Koran is in Mecca. — Jack Paar

Blue jeans and Hollywood and rock & roll won the cold war. — Ben Dreyfuss

The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios. — Gene Tierney

I think the children of Hollywood are more influential than the parents. — James Bobin

In leaving Hollywood and coming to New York, I feel I can be more myself. After all, if I can't be myself, what's the good of being anything at all? — Marilyn Monroe

You'll never learn to act in Hollywood. Not in a thousand years. — Margaret Sullavan

I must have seen more sunrises
than any other actress in the history of Hollywood — Ava Gardner

I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood. — Eric Cantona

It's the nature of Hollywood that there are the people in power and the people who tell them what they want them to hear. — John Lasseter

I like the nexus of Bollywood and Hollywood. I'm actually shocked that there isn't more of a meld between our two industries. — Rob Lowe

The glamorous life is a facade, a fraud
a farce of frivolous trite
The storybook is blank inside
Chivalry has died — Donato DiCristino

In Hollywood, you still have wonderful actors, but it's so hard to work there. To work becomes a Kafka nightmare - it's the last communist country! — Gerard Depardieu

I work too hard and I love it too much. — Jen Calonita

Like many people who don't easily commit, I think I had a fear of being known; I was not sure there was anybody inside there. — Jacqueline Bisset

Hollywood to me is a place to work. Home is Chester County. — Claude Rains

I like to say, in Hollywood, you can't make a redneck movie without me. That doesn't happen. You better not do it. — David Koechner

She found out she's got no soul, but it really doesn't bother her — Papa Roach

But the truth is, the star was just on the sidewalk. Where people walk right over it. — Ava Dellaira

Hollywood called me, asking me, "How much to do a movie with Farrah Fawcett?" "$50,000" They called back, "How about $20,000?" I said, "I'll pay it!" — Henny Youngman

I don't think people are interested in my personal life. I've never had a Hollywood life. I've always been a worker. — Willem Dafoe

I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films. — Rain

I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids. — Dorothy Malone

In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy. — Johnny Carson

No one has a closest friend in Hollywood. — Sheilah Graham