“I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor.” WantMadeKidsAgeFilmActorsBoysGrowing UpGrowingHollywoodInspiredGoldenObsessedFavouriteDetectivesGangstersGolden AgeTracy Author:Ryan Gosling
“Look at me - I was the boo boy for years and years. Did I ever think I would end up in Hollywood or the FA Cup final? No, I didn't.” ThinkingYearsLooksEndsBoysHollywoodFinalsCupsLook At MeCup Finals Author:Vinnie Jones
“Only a dreamer or a fool would pick a stock at random and expect it to take off like a space ship from its launching pad. Certainly this has happened - about as often as a dime-store clerk has become a Hollywood star or a boy born in a log cabin has been elected President of the United States - just often enough, that is, to keep alive the Great American Dream.” Has BeensStatesEnoughDreamStarsPresidentBornSpaceUnitedBoysUnited StatesAliveHappenedFoolPicksHollywoodStoresShipsDreamerAmerican DreamDimesGreat AmericanClerksPadsCabinsLaunchingHollywood StarsLog Cabins Author:Catherine Crook de Camp
“I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog. The story that I bought it on the installment plan is untrue, the invention of a Hollywood press agent. Local color. I paid cash, $8, money I had saved as a hired hand on my uncle Calvin's farm, baling and stacking hay. Prairie hay, used as feed for the cattle in winter. It was mean work for a wiry boy, but ambition made me strong.” FirstsMeanMadeStoriesHandsUsedStrongBoysPlansColorAmbitionPagesHollywoodPaidPressesGuitarWinterSavedInventionLocalsAgentsFarmsCashWornUnclesCattleUntruePrairieHaySearsStacking Author:Gene Autry
“At the time I came along, Hollywoods 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!” IdeasWantedLastsSexBoysHorrorHollywoodPursuitTeenagerGrossInvolvingNudity Author:John Hughes
“I've always hate child stars, starting from way back when, when I was a child. The first child star I saw was Shirley Temple. She was six years old, two foot six and the biggest star in Hollywood. She wore ribbons in her hair, and frilly little pinafores and shiny patent-leather tap shoes - just like the boys in Glee do.” WayYearsFirstsChildrenLittlesTwoHateStarsBoysSawsFeetHairSixHollywoodShoesStartingTemplesLeatherBack WhenPatentsRibbonsGleeSix Year OldsWay Back When Book:I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me Source: I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me
“I always wanted to make motion pictures, ever since I was a wee boy, and I was 32, and time was marching on. I met a guy who said, 'Come out to Hollywood for 10 days, and I'll get you a deal.' So I figured, 'OK, 10 days.' On the 10th day, he got me a development deal with Disney, not for a lot of money, but it allowed me to make the move.” SaidWantedMovingGuyDealsBoysDevelopmentMetsHollywoodLots Of MoneyMotion PicturesMarching On Author:Craig Ferguson
“The script was classic Joe Eszterhas, intelligent, steamy and provocative. At one time, Eszterhas was Hollywood's highest paid writer, illiterate rock and roll bad boy whose 14 films glorified sex, drugsa nd cigarettes. Eszterhas also fought publicly with producers and politicians. In 1995 he argued that some of the misdeeds of the Nixon, Reagan and Bush administrations were more obscene than anything in an "R" rated movie.” FilmSexBoysRocksPoliticianHighestHollywoodPaidIntelligentScriptsProducersAdministrationClassicOne TimeCigaretteRock And RollProvocativeIlliterateObsceneBad BoyMisdeeds Author:David Shuster
“I've always been a bit repelled by "Sunset Boulevard", which is wrong about almost everything it touches, whether it's fame, Hollywood, screenwriters, or old ladies. Sunset Boulevard would only make sense to me if it was about John Gilbert and the pool boy.” IfsBitsBoysFameHollywoodMake SenseSunsetPoolScreenwritersOld LadyBoulevardSunset Boulevard Author:William Monahan
“I don't want to play into the perception that all women should look like fourteen year old boys. I don't want to add to that pressure for young girls. But in Hollywood, there is a constant pressure to look a certain way.” WayWantShouldYearsLooksPlayYoungCertainGirlBoysPerceptionHollywoodPressureConstantAddFourteen Author:Amber Heard
“When I hit Hollywood, it was full-blown. I was a party boy. It amazes me that I made it ... to be able to have led this amazing career when I was out every night. Every once in a while I'll see old reruns of myself and I see I'm giving it my comedy best, but with dead eyes - no sparkle. I was in the middle of all that abuse. But now I'm a recovering alcoholic with many years of sobriety.” GivingYearsMadeEyeAbleNightPartyBoysCareersComedyMiddleHollywoodAbuseMade ItEvery NightAlcoholicsSobrietySparkleRecoveringRerunsRecovering Alcoholics Author:Leslie Jordan