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“I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when i first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.”

Firsts Term Roles Worst Directors Hollywood Endure Discrimination Producers Mexican Racial Discrimination Worst Times

Author:Salma Hayek

“My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.”

Ability Hollywood Driving Mexico

Author:Salma Hayek

“They thought I was crazy in Mexico when I said, 'I'm going to Hollywood.' Nobody thought I could make it.”

Said Crazy Hollywood Mexico

Author:Salma Hayek

“Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.”

World Stories Hollywood Inclusion Latino

Author:Salma Hayek

“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.”

Firsts Wells Whole Bigs Party Careers Hollywood Agents Upset

Author:Salma Hayek

“Once you capitulate to one dictator, does that mean that the next dictator or the next terrorist that says you're not going to make a comedy about - or a film at all about ISIS. All of us in public life have a responsibility right now to speak out and to say, 'No, Sony, you did the wrong thing' and to say to Hollywood, come behind - the other studios should come behind Sony and offer their support.”

Life Should Mean Doe Film Next Speak Behinds Responsibility Support Comedy Right Now Offers Hollywood Studios Terrorist Dictator Isis Wrong Things Public Life Speaks Out Sony

Author:Ed Royce

“My boobs are, like, huge. My whole life, buying a bra was a nightmare. What I used to do when I moved to LA, I found places like Frederick's of Hollywood that make bras for... strippers.”

Life Whole Used Found Huge Hollywood Moved Whole Life Buying Nightmare Bras

Author:Sofia Vergara

“Faith is the main thing. That's kind of why I'm like here in Hollywood: to be like a light, a testimony to say God can take someone from Nashville and make me this, but it's his will that made this happen.”

Kind Made Light Happens Faith Hollywood Testimony Nashville

Author:Miley Cyrus

“Most scripts that get written in Hollywood dont go anywhere.”

Written Hollywood Scripts

Author:Evan Daugherty

“A hit show takes Hollywood magic indeed, but it also takes a lot of math and science, plus the study of polls and trends to make and sell a TV show.”

Shows Study Magic Tvs Hollywood Sells Math Plus Trends Tv Shows Polls Math And Science

Author:Kristoffer Polaha

“From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people.”

“I think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use.”

Thinking Use Talking Hollywood Cliche Foreigners

Author:Michel Hazanavicius

“In Hollywood, Oscar is king.”

Kings Hollywood Oscars

Author:David Letterman

“When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.”

Perfect Creative Hollywood Madness Cannons

Author:Mario Van Peebles

“I really wish Hollywood would stop labeling movies, especially movies with predominantly black casts. Then, it makes others feel like, "Oh, well, that's not for me." At the end of the day, everybody understands love, loss, pain and heartbreak. That's not a color.”

Feels Wells Ends Pain Wish Black Loss Color Hollywood Casts The End Of The Day Oh Well Labeling Love Loss

Author:Taraji P. Henson

“If you're just an actor you're reactive. You're saying, "Well, I hope Hollywood gives me a role, or gives me a chance at a role," whereas if you can generate your own content, then you can go where you want to go.”

Ifs Want Giving Wells Actors Chance Roles Hollywood Give Me Give Me A Chance

Author:Matt Damon

“Why does everyone like this movie? And Americans kept going to the movie. So Hollywood figures out the market, and the market wants to know what happened in Benghazi.”

Knows Want Doe Happened Figures Hollywood Benghazi

Author:Dana Perino

“While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me. To fall into a black hole, that is more amazing than anything I've ever read in a science-fiction story.”

Real Stories Bigs Fall Universe Black Fiction Fans Hollywood Science Fiction Holes Expensive Black Hole Blockbuster Fiction Stories

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“There were many generations of Latino people coming to this country, coming from difficult political or social situations in their own countries, and they worked very hard to have their kids go to universities. Well, those kids came out and they are now doctors and architects, or they are on the Supreme Court. That has a reflection in Hollywood. So, we are actually very proud that our characters are Latinos, and I think it's good for diversity and cultural interaction.”

“With Hollywood you're yesterday's news if you get a flop at the box office. So you might as well be braced to have something else to do that's interesting. Have something lined up to keep your stories fulfilled, and your ideas, because if you're just cranking out movies three times a year.”

Ifs Years Wells Ideas Stories Might Three Interesting Office News Hollywood Boxes Yesterday Fulfilled Three Times Box Office

Author:David Gordon Green

“It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.”

Character Jobs Roles Heard Hollywood Suits Amber Bathing Bathing Suits

Author:Amber Heard

“I think the world is ready for people of color to take on more heroic and leading roles, and not always be the sidekick, the nemesis or any sort of stereotype of what a person of color can play typically in a Hollywood picture.”

People Thinking World Persons Play Roles Color Ready Hollywood Heroic Stereotype Nemesis Sidekicks

Author:Jessica Alba

“I was in Hollywood. It's the mythology heart. It's where all the European films came in the '30s and '40s. The marriage between Europe and Hollywood has always been the best when it works.”

Heart Film Europe Hollywood Mythology

Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“Number one rule in Hollywood is to maintain relationships with successful people, and you may find yourself involved in some very cool projects.”

People May Numbers Successful Involved Projects Hollywood Finding Yourself Successful People Very Cool

Author:David Hayter

“I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so that when I'm long gone my great-great-grandchildren can walk up to it and say, "That's my ancestor." That will be my legacy.”

Want Long Stars Walks Gone Fame Hollywood Legacy Ancestor Grandchildren Great Grandchildren

Author:Tracy Morgan

“When you go to the Hollywood world and you wade in the waters out there, you never know who you’re going to meet and what meetings you’re going to have at some point, somewhere that leads to something else. So you could see somebody years later that comes to fruition.”

Knows World Years Water Hollywood Meetings Wade Fruition

Author:Chris Jericho

“You have to remember that Hollywood is in the business of making movies that they can sell tickets to, they're not in the business of finding great roles for actors.”

Remember Actors Roles Findings Hollywood Sells Tickets

Author:Julianne Moore

“Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.”

Bigs Rooms Sitting Hollywood Plastic Surgery Elephants Living Room Plastic Surgery

Author:Patricia Heaton

“And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press.”

Thinking Perspective Hollywood Presses

Author:Patricia Heaton

“I didn't want to do the obvious role that you see in Hollywood most of the time, which is the heartbroken girl who's waiting to be rescued by the guy, blah, blah, blah. I wanted to do something different.”

Want Heart Different Wanted Guy Girl Waiting Roles Hollywood Obvious Heartbroken Blah

Author:Gal Gadot

“Being in Hollywood and having a love for Christ, is hard.”

Hard Christ Hollywood

Author:Shane Harper

“I went into Hollywood and met Mike Aarons and went to Grantray-Lawrence Animation to work on the, by today's standards, extremely cheap and crude Marvel superheroes cartoons which basically consisted of taking stacks of the comic book art, taking parts of the art, pasting it down, extending it down into drawings and occasionally a new piece of art to bridge the comic book panels and limited animation and lip movement.”

Art Book Today Pieces Movement Mets Standards Hollywood Lips Drawing Comic Bridges Comic Book Cartoon Superhero Animation Mike Crude Extending

Author:Mike Royer

“I think Hollywood, as it's been, will have to change because the model of Hollywood is "we'll make this content, and you guys buy it," but I don't think that's the future.”

Thinking Guy Models Hollywood

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me - from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood. The clothes are on mannequins, also on hangers and in boxes with a photo of each piece, and there's a Web site where I can go to look through everything. It's too big - I could never sort through it myself! But these garments tell the stories of my life.”

“Hollywood is not stupid, contrary to popular belief; it's really a lot of intelligent people trying to figure things out.”

People Trying Belief Stupid Figures Hollywood Intelligent Contrary Not Stupid Contrary To Popular Belief

Author:Peter Berg

“Because of 'The Birds' and 'Marnie' I was, as the expression goes, hot in Hollywood and producers and directors wanted to hire me.”

Wanted Expression Directors Bird Hollywood Hot Producers

Author:Tippi Hedren

“The creative process is a very collaborative process. I know it might seem that way because so much ink is spilled and the media is obsessed with business and numbers and studios... but filmmakers don't think of it that way. We just go off and we tell our stories. It's the same torture that we adore, it's the same torture that our forefathers endured making movies in the golden era of Hollywood. So, from my perspective it's no different, I'm sure, from the men and women who I admire so much who made the earliest movies.”

“The turning point in my career was Jaws. It was a turning point because I was a director-for-hire before Jaws and because it was such a big hit I could do any movie I wanted and Hollywood just wrote me a cheque.”

Bigs Wanted Careers Directors Hollywood Turning Points Cheques

Author:Steven Spielberg

“When I first came to America, I went into William Morris Endeavor for a meeting and I was like, "Yeah, I'm from Australia and I do comedy." I think that one of the reasons they signed me is because I wasn't like any other girl. Maybe girls don't get encouraged. The ones who get encouraged to move to Hollywood are the prettiest ones in their hometown of Iowa, or something. Whereas for me, where I come from in the western suburbs of Sydney, no one ever thought professional actors would come from there. Even my own family was like, "No one would want you on a show."”

Thinking Want Firsts Reason Shows America Moving Girl Actors My Own Comedy Hollywood Yeah Meetings Western Australia Endeavor Suburbs Hometown Sydney Iowa Other Girl Prettiest Morris

Author:Rebel Wilson

“I think Hollywood is more of a state of mind then a place. There are certainly iconic locations in L.A. but as far as the glitz and glamour of old Hollywood and the studio system, that's all but faded away.”

Thinking Mind States Hollywood Studios State Of Mind Location Glamour Faded Iconic Old Hollywood Glitz

Author:Nicholas Ozeki

“I was inspired by Maya Deren because she was the first woman filmmaker whose films I saw. I also loved Fellini and Goddard because they were so different from Hollywood films. But when I saw the cinema verite films that were made by Drew Associates with Leacock and Pennebaker I found my passion.”

Firsts Made Different Film Passion Found Saws Hollywood Inspired Cinema Filmmaker Associates My Passion Hollywood Films

Author:Chris Hegedus

“I don't really want to start my career again, and I don't like Hollywood. If it had happened to me when I was young, yes, I'd be there like a shot, but I wouldn't like to go there and hang out and go to auditions at my age.”

Ifs Want Age Young Careers Happened Shots Hollywood Hanging Out Auditions

Author:Roger Lloyd-Pack

“I like a much more Japanese style of blood, where it's red and it almost has a paint kind of quality to it. You can put it on metal, and it has this vividness. Because, normally, what they use in Hollywood is this stuff that looks like strawberry pancake syrup or raspberry pancake syrup.”

Looks Kind Use Stuff Quality Blood Style Red Hollywood Paint Metals Strawberries Pancakes Syrup Raspberries Vividness

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“People get famous now for I-don't-know-what. People have reality shows because they're a Hollywood socialite, and these things become very successful and they generate a shitload of money for the company. And it's multiplying, to where you're literally looking into your next door neighbor's bathroom with reckless abandon. It is like watching a fire. You can't take your eyes off of it.”

People Knows Shows Reality Eye Next Company Successful Fire Doors Hollywood Neighbor Abandon Bathroom Reckless Reality Shows Multiplying Next Door Neighbors Socialites Reckless Abandon

Author:Johnny Depp

“There's a lot of idiots in Hollywood, a lot of people with no imagination, so as an actor you have to constantly re-show them what you can do.”

People Shows Actors Can Do Imagination Hollywood Idiot

Author:Stephen Dorff

“[Show] business is tough. You never know who or what's real. It's tough when you get in this business, if you have no grounded foundation other than Hollywood, because this business isn't real. We're getting paid to do what we love, but it isn't real.”

Ifs Knows Real Shows Tough Hollywood Paid Foundation Grounded Show Business

Author:Columbus Short

“I'm not always happy when Hollywood does remakes of films, but that's usually, when they have a very, very, very good film and they take away anything controversial from it and make flatter.”

Doe Film Hollywood Very Good Controversial Remakes Always Happy Good Films

Author:Stellan Skarsgard

“There's nothing really original. Alien was a B-movie. Five directors passed on it before me. Because I was into Heavy Metal, I read it, and thought, "Wow, I want to do this." I was on a plane to Hollywood in 22 hours. It was a B-movie and was elevated to an A-plus movie by sheer good taste.”

Want Hours Five Taste Directors Hollywood Originals Heavy Aliens Planes Plus Wow Metals Sheer Good Taste Heavy Metal

Author:Ridley Scott

“To be honest, you have to do a big Hollywood film to get enough money to do a good independent film!”

Enough Bigs Film Honest Hollywood Independent Being Honest Independent Film Hollywood Films

Author:Sean Bean

“Live your life, experience something, and then you're going to have a lot of things to say. But if you hang around in Hollywood, then you're going to say the same thing as everyone else - nothing.”

Ifs Hollywood Life Experience Live Your Life

Author:Luc Besson

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