“I'm not a big Hollywood star. I'm an actor. I'm called a star. That's not what I am. First of all I'm a human being; my profession is acting. People give you titles. They say you're an up and coming star, then they say you're a star, then they say you're a washed-up star. So I don't get caught up in what I'm called. My job, my profession, is acting.” PeopleGivingFirstsHumansBigsJobsActorsStarsHuman BeingsActingHollywoodCaughtProfessionTitlesCaught UpHollywood Stars Author:Denzel Washington
“I accept that appearance is a big thing in this business. But being around Hollywood and having actor friends and doing music videos, it does make you more aware of how you look. With music videos they send you rough cuts, and in certain frames of me, I just see a nose advert.” LooksDoeBigsCertainActorsAcceptingCuttingHollywoodAppearanceVideoNosesRoughBig ThingsAdverts Author:Michael Bolton
“I don't think a Hollywood actor is safe from acting in the rain: it all depends on the film.” ThinkingFilmActorsActingDependsSafeRainHollywood Author:Isabella Rossellini
“As I say, there's something that scares the hell out of me but it really makes me work hard in losing myself. I'm not really interested in me as an actor or being a personality player, or a Hollywood star. What's given to me is to become different people and to find the truth of that. That is really what I do.” PeopleDifferentHardActorsGivenStarsHellPlayerHard WorkPersonalityLosingHollywoodScareDifferent PeoplesLosing MyselfHollywood Stars Author:David Suchet
“The great exception to that, of course, is Johnny Depp, who is absolutely the ultimate character actor. Johnny Depp is the future of the character actor and thanks to his success maybe we will see the return of an era when my sort of actor is back in vogue. It's not in vogue for me to be in Hollywood movies as lots of different people.” PeopleDifferentCharacterCoursesActorsReturnHollywoodUltimateThanksErasExceptionDifferent PeoplesVogueCharacter ActorsHollywood Movies Author:David Suchet
“I'm never in Hollywood! I'm a theatre actor that lives in New York. I'm very seldom in Los Angeles. I don't dislike LA, I just don't think it's a very healthy place for me to be all the time. When I'm shooting a movie there and am working I'm perfectly happy. But when I'm not working or engaged in something it's a place that I wouldn't live.” ThinkingActorsNew YorkHealthyHollywoodTheatreShootingEngagedLos AngelesDislikeTheatre Actors Author:Willem Dafoe
“I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.” FeelsStoriesActorsFictionLike YouCreatingHollywoodMovieFilmmakingCanvasCreating SomethingHollywood Movies Author:George Hickenlooper
“The first time I had got an offer to come to Hollywood, I turned it down. I said, "No, I'm an actor of the stage.” FirstsSaidActorsStageOffersFirst TimeHollywood Author:Kirk Douglas
“When the script for 'The Wrestler' kept coming to me I said, This movie is so good if you put me in the film as a wrestler people are going to say, 'No credibility, Hulk Hogan isn't a good actor,' whatever Hollywood thinks of me.” PeopleIfsThinkingSaidFilmActorsHollywoodScriptsCredibilityThink Of MeGood ActorsWrestler Author:Hulk Hogan
“Hollywood is designed to check the box office on Monday morning and see: "How'd we do? How much?" It's another facet of this whole culture of accumulation and consumption. Black people are caught up in it, white people are caught up in it, white actors, black actors, female actresses - everybody's caught up in it.” PeopleWholeCultureActorsBlackWhiteMorningOfficeFemaleHollywoodCaughtBoxesActressesChecksBlack PeopleConsumptionCaught UpMondayAccumulationFacetsMonday MorningBox Office Author:Danny Glover
“My memoir is being published by Beaufort Books and will be available fall of 2015. Its about my unusual life as a child actor and how I made the unpopular choice to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.” ChildrenMadeBookChoicesFallActorsGrowsGrowing UpHollywoodAvailableMemoirPretendingUnusualChild Actors Author:Lisa Jakub
“I was born in the same town as Richard Burton, the actor, and I saw him, he used to come - he and his wife drove by in the car in my father's shop and Burton would come home from Hollywood and ask him for his autograph, and I thought, I want to be like him. And that's all I said to myself, I want to be like that. I want to get out of this environment of my own empty mind.” WantMindSaidHomeUsedActorsAsksFatherBornMy OwnEnvironmentSawsWifeCarEmptyHollywoodTownsShopsComing HomeAutographsEmpty Mind Author:Anthony Hopkins
“My major intention for coming to Hollywood - besides the fact that I was just enamored with acting from a very young age - was that I was tired of seeing wimpy Asian actors.” FactsAgeYoungActorsActingSeeingMajorsHollywoodTiredIntentionAsianYoung AgeEnamored Author:Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
“Every actor. every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood or else you are nothing.” NeedsLittlesActorsDirectorsHollywoodOscarsStatues Author:Rita Hayworth
“Acting on the stage is a luxury for me. I lose money. I make movies for financial reasons and this allows me the luxury of acting on Broadway. Hollywood, unfortunately, exploits actors for their own reasons, which are usually financial. So we might as well exploit Hollywood as much as it exploits us.” WellsReasonMightActorsLosesActingStageHollywoodFinancialLuxuryBroadwayExploits Author:George C. Scott
“Even Hollywood millionaires are now clamoring for legal protections for their illegal-alien nannies and gardeners, though such elites would hardly countenance a similar legal laxity that would allow foreign film technicians, screenwriters, and actors to flood southern California to work in their industry for a fourth of their own pay.” FilmActorsPayIndustryHollywoodProtectionAliensCaliforniaIllegalSouthernElitesFourthFloodMillionaireGardenerScreenwritersCountenanceTechniciansNanniesSouthern CaliforniaIllegal Aliens Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn't they? It's great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, 'I'm just gonna go to Hollywood!' is that it seems unrealistic.” PeopleIfsThinkingSeemsActorsOne ThingHollywoodGreat Work Author:Ben Affleck
“In the late 1930s, both the British and American movie industries made a succession of films celebrating the decency of the British Empire in order to challenge the threatening tide of Nazism and fascism and also to provide employment for actors from Los Angeles's British colony. The best two were Hollywood's Gunga Din and Britain's The Four Feathers...” MadeTwoFilmOrderActorsChallengesFourIndustryLateHollywoodBritishEmploymentCelebrateBritainEmpiresLos AngelesFascismTidesThreateningFeathersDecencySuccessionColonyNazism1930sBritish EmpireAmerican MovieMovie Industry Author:Philip French
“People don't have to be beautiful any more. We don't have any Audrey Hepburns, Rita Hayworths or Ava Gardeners. When you look at Al Pacino and the greatest actors in Hollywood they're all common-looking.” PeopleLooksBeautifulActorsCommonHollywoodAlsGardenerHepburnAudrey Author:Omar Sharif
“There's a lot of actors I think that appear so much more together as the characters they portray as opposed to the actual people, so I know I've said this before: Hollywood's not a place where you're rewarded for growing up.” PeopleThinkingKnowsSaidCharacterTogetherActorsGrowing UpGrowingHollywood Author:Ryan Reynolds
“Initially, before I came to Hollywood, I thought that the language barrier would be the biggest challenge, but I realized that actors all around the world, regardless of language, are all the same.” WorldWould BeActorsLanguageChallengesHollywoodI RealizedAround The WorldBarriersLanguage Barriers Author:Kim Jee-woon
“What I've learned, more than anything, as a young actor who has been in the business for 10 years, is just to be around guys and girls, like Ron Perlman, Bill Lucking, Kim Coates, Tommy Flanagan, Katey Sagal, who have been in this business for a very long time, and to learn what to do and what not to do from them, every day, and to see how they navigate through their Hollywood life.” YearsLongHas BeensYoungGuyGirlActorsLong TimeHollywoodBillsI've LearnedNavigateKimYoung ActorsHollywood Life Author:Theo Rossi
“The populist zeal to seek revenge on those who make a lot of money is targeted almost exclusively at corporations. I haven't heard outcries about Hollywood actors who make millions per film, even when those movies are a bust at the box office and the talent at issue has none. There's no outrage over athletes like New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez's $33 million salary or Celtic power forward Kevin Garnett's $25 million. Nor should there be. These are exceptionally talented individuals whose teams' owners think they're worth every penny.” ThinkingShouldFilmActorsIndividualMillionsIssuesHeardTeamTalentHavensNew YorkOfficeHollywoodThirdsAthleteBoxesRevengeCorporationsOwnersLots Of MoneyYankeesSalaryPenniesZealAlexOutrageNew York YankeesKevinBox OfficePopulistCeltic Author:Linda Chavez
“I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'” PeopleKnowsHas BeensTwoDoneActorsPathHollywoodMusicalMovieTwo Paths Author:Hugh Jackman
“I'm not of the manor born; I've never felt entitled in that way. I just came to Hollywood to be an actor. All that lifestyle stuff is something to be managed.” WayActorsFeltStuffBornHollywoodLifestyleEntitled Author:John C. Reilly
“At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents.” ThinkingActorsActingHollywoodPressesDinnerActressesAgentsAwardsAcademyAcademy AwardsActors And Actresses Author:Bob Hope
“I was a hockey player, growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates. As an actor, I've been all over the map, but since I've moved to Hollywood, people tend to cast me in these more imposing characters, which is actually really fun for me.” PeopleCharacterUseBigsGuyActorsFunGrowing UpGrowingPlayerProtectHollywoodMovedCastsSizeMapsHockeyTeammateImposingBig GuysHockey Player Author:Kevin Durand
“Eventually, if your career goes higher and higher, that's just how it is, but it's a little frightening. When I was younger and I thought about being an actor, I thought of the old Hollywood style of glamour, and that was so beautiful and appealing to me. Now, if you want to be an actor, it's not the same.” IfsWantLittlesBeautifulActorsCareersStyleHigherHollywoodFrighteningGlamourOld Hollywood Author:Tinsel Korey
“When you work as actors in this business, you spend a lot of time apart. That's why a lot of marriages fail. It's not because of Hollywood, it's because you don't spend time together.” TogetherActorsFailingHollywoodEnd TimesSpend TimeTime TogetherTime Apart Author:Boris Kodjoe
“Heroes aren't athletes who set new sports records, or Hollywood actors who make 'daring' films or politicians who make bold promises. Heroes are people who place themselves at risk for the benefit of others.” PeopleFilmActorsSportsRecordsRiskHeroPoliticianPromiseBenefitsHollywoodAthleteDaring Author:Oliver North
“You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films.” WorldStoriesFilmActorsSocialActingHollywoodIndianHollywood Films Author:Amitabh Bachchan
“I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.” MenPlayCharacterBigsCareFilmCertainActorsTypeEasierProjectsHollywoodAvailableLike MeVarietySlipsLead InCharacter ActorsHollywood Films Author:Eddie Marsan
“I was just excited by the whole prospect of working in a television series in Hollywood. I had never anticipated that as an actor I would ever end up here. It may be some sort of fantasy I'd thought about from time to time, but it was completely unrealistic.” MayEndsWholeActorsFantasyTelevisionHollywoodSeriesExcited Author:Patrick Stewart
“There are definitely roles within this industry that are industry-related, but to be a good actor, you really have to want to act first. At the same time, my goal was never to go to Hollywood to make movies. I think if you come here with that attitude, then you've missed a few steps.” IfsThinkingWantFirstsActorsGoalAttitudeStepsRolesIndustryHollywoodRelatedGood Actors Author:Anthony Edwards
“Meeting people is difficult, period. LA is a difficult place to meet people anyway, and Hollywood is such a small community. But I don't make it a rule just to date other actors and people in the entertainment industry. It could work out with me and a dentist. It could work out with me and a lawyer.” PeopleActorsDifficultCommunityIndustryPeriodsHollywoodMeetingsEntertainmentWork OutLawyerDentistEntertainment IndustrySmall Communities Author:Eva Longoria
“The radical rightwing pegs Hollywood as a leftist town, which is completely wrong. There are a lot of actors, writers, and directors who talk a liberal agenda... but all the studio bosses, for as long as there have been studios, have all been as far rightwing as you can possibly imagine.” LongHas BeensActorsImagineDirectorsHollywoodTownsStudiosRadicalAgendasBossLeftistsPeg Author:Paul Haggis
“The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers. In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.” PeopleWayLittlesActorsDirectorsMusicianHollywoodPhotographerDesignerProgressiveOpen MindOpen MindedMake Out Author:Adam McKay
“As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.” IfsWould BeActorsHollywoodHorribleInvitedPlaces To Go Author:Douglas Booth
“Argo might well be studied as a bait-and-switch masterwork: In showing the capture of the American Embassy in Tehran, Ben Affleck first made a fetish of authenticity, then served up a shamelessly Hollywood, and wholly fictional climax, then capped the whole thing off with a coda that was essentially a tribute to his movie's authenticity, complete with side-by-side photos of the actors and their near-identical real-life counterparts. Well done, sir!” FirstsWellsMadeRealDoneWholeMightActorsSidesHollywoodReal LifeAuthenticityCaptureIdenticalTributeWell DoneBaitCounterpartsClimaxFetishTehranEmbassyArgo Author:David Edelstein
“I tell this joke about Barack Obama is the best communicator of our generation: The guy reads a teleprompter better than any Hollywood actor. John McCain, his opponent - Stevie Wonder reads a teleprompter better than John McCain.” GuyActorsWonderGenerationsJokesHollywoodBarackOpponentsMccainOur GenerationCommunicators Author:Frank Luntz
“When I was writing Razor Girl, I thought it would be fun to have a redneck TV family that was really just a bunch of actors who had to be trained to be rednecks. That's not so farfetched, if you know how Hollywood works.” IfsKnowsWritingWould BeGirlActorsFunKnow HowTvsHollywoodBunchRedneckRazors Author:Carl Hiaasen
“It's a very odd thing with Hollywood, where you do stand-up, you're good at it, then they go, "How would you like to be a horrible actor?" Then you say, "All right, that sounds good. I'll do that."” ActorsSoundHollywoodHorribleOddOdd Things Author:Norm MacDonald
“I went to New York out of college, and in my day, we were told that was the way you became a good actor. You don't go to Hollywood, you go straight to New York and work in the theater. So that's what most of the people I knew did.” PeopleWayActorsNew YorkCollegeHollywoodTheaterGood Actors Author:Brent Spiner
“A lot of kids think they can just go to Hollywood and become an actor or actress. It's not that easy. There are millions of kids who come out here wanting to act. So, you have to have a plan, and you have to stick with that plan, because it's not going to be easy by any means.” ThinkingMeanKidsActorsEasyMillionsPlansHollywoodSticksActresses Author:Michael Clarke Duncan
“I had a very dear friend of mine, ton of potential, and he fell ill with bipolar disorder. And he was put in the penal system. And that was just adding fuel to the fire. He got worse. He came out and he's never been the same since. He can't seem to get his life back. And this is a man who could have had Hollywood in the palm of his hand. A lot of my inspiration and aspirations for wanting to be an actor, I owe to him. Between the disorder and him being put in jail, it just snuffed all of that away from him.” MenHandsInspirationSeemsActorsFireMinesHollywoodDearIllAspirationFuelJailDisorderPalmsBipolarDear FriendBipolar Disorder Author:Michael K. Williams
“Playing what Hollywood determines is a hero, it immediately sets actors up to feel like they just can't explore the dark parts of themselves - the character has to be likeable, has to be fuckable, has to be redemptive on all fronts. When you're playing a character that's just inherently destructive or messed up, you're given this beautiful permission to try things. There's a license to fail.” FeelsTryingCharacterBeautifulActorsGivenDarkFailingFrontsHeroHollywoodDetermineDestructivePermissionLicenseMessed UpLikeable Author:Jordan Gavaris
“What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job.” PeopleThinkingLongHas BeensMadeMatterJobsActorsOfficeHollywoodBoxesThink Of YouBox Office Author:Diane Kruger
“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?"” YearsRememberActorsHollywoodMovieOscarsRemember When Author:Ang Lee
“Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is.” WayNeedsActorsStrongFemaleHollywoodMachinesFleshVery Strong Author:Antonio Banderas
“Being a conservative union member is almost like being an actor in Hollywood: You don't dare say it, or you might be injured on the job, or you might be laid off, or your family might have something happen to them.” MightHappensJobsActorsMembersHollywoodUnionsConservativeDareInjuredLaid Off Author:Rush Limbaugh