“I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.” KnowsI CanStoriesActorsMaterialsHollywoodHungry Author:Chris Noth
“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.” TryingWould BeCertainActorsHollywoodStatementsDaily Life Author:Corin Nemec
“Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different filmmakers, actors, producers etc. It's a very difficult business. There aren't a lot of Africans Americans or people of color in high positions in Hollywood that we can green-light films.” PeopleNeedsDifferentHardLightFilmActorsDifficultSupportPositionColorHollywoodGreenProducersAfrican AmericanFilmmakerRelyEtcCohesionAmerican FilmGreen Lights Author:Paula Patton
“As a runner on a film, you are the lowest of the low, and yet you have incredible access to everyone. I can totally imagine that for actors in the middle of a Hollywood bubble, all they really want is a sense of normality, and that gopher can be a tap for that.” WantI CanFilmActorsImagineMiddleLowsHollywoodIncrediblesAccessBubblesImagine ThatRunnersLowestNormalityGophers Author:Eddie Redmayne
“As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?” ActorsHollywoodTheater Author:Maggie Siff
“I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - "I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!"” ChildrenI CanActorsStarsFiveHollywoodChild Actors Author:Alexander Skarsgard
“If we based everything in Hollywood on who was a nice guy, holy moly, we would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ruled by kindness and generosity.” IfsGuyActorsKindnessNiceIndustryHolyHollywoodGenerosityNice Guy Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino
“I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.” IfsHas BeensActorsSportsFansCallingHollywoodAthleteConvincedCould Have BeenSports FanPro Athlete Author:Jamie Foxx
“You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.” KnowsWantActorsMusicianHollywoodNashville Author:Richie Sambora
“My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.” FirstsWarActorsSpeakHollywoodOppositionVietnamVietnam WarSpeaks Out Author:Robert Vaughn
“I think it would be a problem if Hollywood was casting British actors only as villains; if that were the case, then certainly there would be cause for concern.” IfsThinkingProblemWould BeActorsCausesCasesConcernHollywoodBritishVillainCasting Author:Alfred Molina
“The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, 'Who won the Oscar last year?'” YearsLastsActorsAsksWinningMonthsHollywoodTwelveLast YearOscars Author:Cliff Robertson
“I always wanted to do a Hollywood story. The thing about actors, though, is that they go through a streak of roles. The question is, what's in between?” StoriesWantedActorsRolesHollywoodStreaks Author:Tom Folsom
“The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before in film no longer have such plum options, so cable has done a good job of becoming a happy medium for artists deemed film actors.” WayDoneJobsFilmArtistActorsOpportunityBecomingHollywoodMediumsAffectedGood JobCablesRecessionsRobustPlumsFilm Actors Author:Omari Hardwick
“I don't think a lot of people really understand the commitment it takes to being a character that an actor in Hollywood would take to approaching a role that they're doing.” PeopleThinkingCharacterActorsRolesCommitmentHollywood Author:Misty Copeland
“I studied cinema at the university so I had a very classical approach to it. I studied all those silent films, and then the films from the 1940's, the Nouvelle Vague, the late Hollywood films. Now I realize, as a young actor, that it's one of my duties to actually be aware of what is today's industry and today's next big directors.” BigsTodayFilmYoungNextActorsRealizingDutyIndustryDirectorsLateApproachHollywoodSilentUniversityCinemaVagueYoung ActorsHollywood FilmsSilent Films Author:Gaspard Ulliel
“I want to abolish tags like 'comeback' and 'retirement' that are used to define every married female actor. What is the big deal? In Hollywood, every top actor takes a break, has children, and gets back to work.” WantChildrenBigsUsedActorsDealsBreakMarriedFemaleHollywoodGet BackRetirementBig DealComebackAbolishTagBack To Work Author:Karisma Kapoor
“A lot of people who are actors and artists who work in Hollywood come from a background of abuse, and you can make abused people very fearful and they'll do what they're told. Hollywood definitely has a point of view that it sells.” PeopleArtistActorsViewsHollywoodAbuseSellsPoint Of ViewBackgroundsFearful Author:Roseanne Barr
“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.” DoeDifferentFactsSeemsActorsBlackVirtueHollywood Author:Will Smith
“When I was a Hollywood press agent, I learned how the Hollywood casting system worked. There was a roster of actors who were always perfect as doctors or lawyers or laborers, and the directors just picked the types they needed and stuffed them into film after film. I do the same [with my characters], book after book.” BookCharacterFilmActorsPerfectTypeNeededDirectorsDoctorsHollywoodPressesLawyerAgentsCastingLaborersRosters Author:Richard Condon
“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.” ThinkingMenPersonsRealActorsLeftHe ManHollywoodSellsVarietyCopiesPoolReal Person Author:Neil Gaiman
“Coming from Ireland, its quite hard to do a startup because youre culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing. In the Bay Area, its much easier. Its the equivalent of an actor or actress moving to Hollywood.” HardMovingActorsEasierAreasHollywoodActressesIrelandFar AwayBay Area Author:John Collison
“When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.” YearsYoungActorsTelevisionHollywoodRingsAgentsEveningYoung Actors Author:Michael Caine
“Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We've all experienced that, in one way or another.” WayActorsDirectorsHollywoodOne WayContempt Author:Vin Diesel
“I do not like the Broadway theatre because it does not know how to say hello. The tone of voice is false, the mannerisms are false, the sex is false, ideal, the Hollywood world of perfection, the clean image, the well pressed clothes, the well scrubbed anus, odorless, inhuman, of the Hollywood actor, the Broadway star. And the terrible false dirt of Broadway, the lower depths in which the dirt is imitated, inaccurate.” KnowsWorldWellsDoeActorsStarsSexVoiceKnow HowTerribleClothesIdealsPerfectionHollywoodCleanDepthTheatreToneDirtHelloBroadwayInhumanMannerismsAnusBroadway Theatre Author:Julian Beck
“Before Michael Caine you had to have been in the RAF to be an actor.” Has BeensFilmActorsHollywoodRaf Author:Bob Hoskins
“I'm not in this business to win a popularity contest, I just want to be a good actor. Well, you've failed at being a good actor. Why not try for the popularity contest?” WantTryingWellsFilmActorsWinningHollywoodWhy NotPopularityContestsGood ActorsPopularity Contest Author:Roger Moore
“I felt as if I was the brunt of some massive joke at my expense: Can you believe this loser can be connected to Marlon Brando and Katharine Hepburn? But through the years I have learned to tolerate and sometimes embrace the idea. People have asked me if I consider it an honour. Well, all it indicates is that I've been in a lot of movies with a lot of people. And besides that there are plenty of other actors that would work.” PeopleIfsYearsBelieveWellsIdeasSometimesFilmActorsFeltJokesHollywoodEmbraceConnectedPlentyMassiveExpensesHonourLoserTolerateI Have LearnedThrough The YearsHepburnBrando Author:Kevin Bacon
“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.” StillsTwoActorsMillionsMajorsHollywoodTwo Things Author:Uwe Boll
“As much as it's nice to step into that massive world of Hollywood and be a big, famous actor, I prefer the career of actors that have really chosen smartly and done really amazing performances. Maybe they're not as known, but their careers are a bit more interesting.” WorldDoneBigsActorsBitsInterestingKnownStepsCareersNiceHollywoodPerformancesChosenMassiveReally AmazingFamous Actor Author:Idris Elba
“If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.” IfsThinkingWorldDoeJobsArtistActorsGoalHollywoodBunchFilmmakerDecentDisagreeHacksBad MoviesBest Artist Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.” ThinkingMenKindActorsHollywoodTypicalLooking Good Author:Ryan Gosling
“I hope Hong Kong and Asia wants to hire American Asian actresses as much as Hollywood has been hiring Chinese actors from Asia.” WantHas BeensActorsHollywoodActressesChineseAsiaAsianHiringHong Kong Author:Ming-Na Wen
“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
“I live in Minnesota. Lots of people assume that if you want to be an actor, you have to live in Hollywood, but not me.” PeopleIfsWantActorsHollywoodAssumingMinnesota Author:Chris Massoglia
“Id be lying if I said Hollywood wasnt still an ambition; its everyones, isnt it? Youre getting paid very well, youre working with great actors and great directors - who wouldnt want to be a part of that? But its not going to break my heart if it doesnt happen. This business is about doing good work rather than how famous it makes you.” IfsWantWellsHeartSaidStillsHappensLyingActorsBreakMy HeartDirectorsAmbitionHollywoodPaidGood WorkDoing GoodGreat ActorsBreaking My Heart Author:Max Beesley
“I can't imagine that anyone in Hollywood is sitting around trying to decide what actor is good or right or qualified for a role and is being denied a role because of their political views. I don't think that's the way Hollywood works. We're not living in an era of blacklisting.” ThinkingWayTryingI CanPoliticalActorsViewsRolesImagineSittingHollywoodErasDeniedImagine ThatQualifiedSitting AroundPolitical View Author:Kevin Spacey
“When you audition for shows in Hollywood, you go in, you do your scene, maybe you get an adjustment. It's sort of easy, and a lot of times it just feels sort of rote and simple. Whereas when you go to New York and you audition for plays, you walk out sweaty and intimidated and nervous and doubting yourself as an actor.” FeelsPlayShowsActorsEasySimpleWalksDoubtNew YorkSceneHollywoodNervousAuditionsAdjustmentIntimidatedDoubting Yourself Author:Ben Feldman
“I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.” WayYearsActorsFoundVoiceNaturalSimpleFiveStageOrdinaryHollywoodStudiosFive YearsGesturesEliminating Author:Walter Huston
“I have to admit I've rarely been happier in my life. I have been absolutely thrilled to be back in New York and living a block from where I grew up. Just to be back in New York and, quite honestly, away from Hollywood has been an absolute thrill for me. I feel like I'm a real actor again.” FeelsHas BeensRealActorsNew YorkGrewGrew UpHollywoodAbsolutesHonestlyBlockThrill Author:Richard Schiff
“The days when the words Hollywood actor framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.” RealitySeemsActorsPartyHollywoodSeriesFingersCrowdsTeaExtrasCandidatesInsultTea PartyTagFramedHamBunniesShamelessConsultantsImpliedPunditsQuaint Author:James Wolcott
“Hollywood people don't want to be embarrassed by being involved with someone who isn't happening and cool at the time. But I never made the movies for the critics; I've done the best I could with the material and the directors and the actors I had. But the thing that's really exciting is that once I do that one project that's different, that stands out, everyone's gonna be watching.” PeopleWantMadeDifferentDoneActorsMaterialsInvolvedDirectorsProjectsHappeningsHollywoodExcitingCriticsEmbarrassedStanding Out Author:Pauly Shore
“Most actors have to sit by the phone and wait for somebody to call them up to audition and stuff. I don't think I can exist in Hollywood just on that. I think I need to be proactive and making sure that things I really want to do are being developed to the point where somebody wants to make them?” ThinkingWantNeedsI CanActorsStuffWaitingHollywoodPhonesAuditionsProactive Author:Ice Cube
“I've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own show.” WantSaidShowsBigsFilmActorsNamesMetsHollywoodHboHollywood Films Author:Chris Lilley
“During my career as a standup and actor, I realized it was very frustrating for me to get hired because Hollywood was hiring a different kind of brother, you know, and I was doing political humor... In order for me to really have a long career, I'm going to have to learn how to write and produce for myself... I had no idea I was really going to like it and I'm very fortunate to be successful. But the idea was to always eventually create something for myself. That was the idea from the beginning when I went into writing and producing.” KnowsWritingKindLongIdeasDifferentPoliticalOrderActorsCareersSuccessfulProduceBrotherHollywoodI RealizedNo IdeaFortunateBeing SuccessfulDifferent KindsFrustratingHiringPolitical HumorLong Careers Author:Larry Wilmore
“Everyone has to pay their child support, and no matter if you're a Hollywood actor or anyone else, it's always a little bit more than you want to pay.” IfsWantChildrenLittlesMatterActorsBitsPaySupportLittle BitHollywood Author:Ethan Hawke
“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.” IfsWantGivingWellsActorsChanceRolesHollywoodGive MeGive Me A Chance Author:Matt Damon
“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.” RememberActorsRolesFindingsHollywoodSellsTickets Author:Julianne Moore
“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."” ThinkingWantFirstsReasonShowsAmericaMovingGirlActorsMy OwnComedyHollywoodYeahMeetingsWesternAustraliaEndeavorSuburbsHometownSydneyIowaOther GirlPrettiestMorris Author:Rebel Wilson
“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.” PeopleShowsActorsCan DoImaginationHollywoodIdiot Author:Stephen Dorff