“Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.” IfsKnowsFirstsI CanAsksDirectorsHollywoodAsk MeTarantinoHollywood Movies Author:Melanie Laurent
“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
“Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too. Now go ahead and ask me if I'm still Polish. You people keep asking me this question. You want Polish artists to make it in the world, but when they do, you accuse them of treason.” PeopleIfsWorldWantStillsArtistAsksDirectorsHollywoodEnglandAskingAsk MeGermanyPolishTreasonHitchcock Author:Roman Polanski
“To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.” PeopleAsksPartyNew YorkHundredHollywoodTwentiesFiftyInvitesCocktailsCocktail Parties Author:Elsa Maxwell
“I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on the character. In Hollywood, what more can you ask for. You want a consummate professional.” WantTryingCharacterAsksStepsHollywoodBe GoodPlatesStep Up Author:Martin Lawrence
“I still giggle when someone asks for my address and I say, Hollywood, Los Angeles.” StillsAsksHollywoodAddressesLos AngelesGiggle Author:Ashley Jensen
“That kind of friendship doesn't just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft-focus Hollywood haze. For it to last this long, and at such close quarters, some serious work had gone into it. Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as effortlessness.” KindLongEndsShowsLastsBeautifulMovingAsksMorningGoneFocusSeriousHollywoodIceDancerLive ByQuartersBalletRainbowBallet DancerHazeSkaterJumpersSerious Work Author:Tana French
“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
“It is tough, every time. The ensemble is great. I would always ask Andrew, "Is this how Hollywood is? Is this how every TV show and movie is?" And he was like, "No, dude. This is not. Do not get used to this. Be thankful that this is how your first gig is."” FirstsShowsUsedAsksTvsToughHollywoodTv ShowsBeing ThankfulGigsAndrewEnsemble Author:Steven Yeun
“Ask anyone in America where the craziest people live and they'll tell you California. Ask anyone in California where the craziest people live and they'll say Los Angeles. Ask anyone in Los Angeles where the craziest people live and they'll tell you Hollywood. Ask anyone in Hollywood where the craziest people live and they'll say Laurel Canyon. And ask anyone in Laurel Canyon where the craziest people live and they'll say Lookout Mountain. So I bought a house on Lookout Mountain.” PeopleAmericaAsksHouseMountainHollywoodCaliforniaLos AngelesCanyonsLaurelsCraziest Author:Joni Mitchell
“My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it's a vacation destination for me. I say, 'Because I sometimes have perfect days there.'” SometimesAsksPerfectHollywoodAsk MeDestinationVacationPalsPerfect Days Author:Ben Stein
“I ask everyone - white Hollywood and black Hollywood - to get outside of your comfort zone and make friends. That's where they're going to learn from each other, and that's where they're going to make better movies and make Hollywood a better place.” AsksBlackWhiteComfortHollywoodZoneComfort ZoneBetter Place Author:Russell Simmons
“People ask me if I ever feel outside the Hollywood loop, and I never do, because both of us do a lot of theatre, so it's great for New York and it's also half-way between Europe and the west coast, so it's the best of both worlds.” PeopleIfsWorldWayFeelsAsksHalfNew YorkEuropeHollywoodWestTheatreAsk MeCoastLoopsWest CoastHalf WayBest Of Both Worlds Author:Liam Neeson
“In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.” PeoplePastAsksFeltDogHollywoodAsk MeGood PeopleHumiliationHumiliatedJackie Author:Jackie Chan
“That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his praise comes to him in the form of a salary check. In Hollywood the average writer is not young, not honest, not brave, and a bit overdressed. But he is darn good company, which book writers as a rule are not. He is better than what he writes. Most book writers are not as good.” WritingBookFormYoungAsksBitsCompanyOne ThingHonestHollywoodUltimatePraiseBraveAverageCorruptionChecksSalaryGood CompanyNot Honest Author:Raymond Chandler
“Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply.” PeopleThinkingWellsYoungAsksMarriedHollywoodAsk MeMemorableBogart Author:Lauren Bacall
“My son tells me, 'Do you realize you are the last one? The last person who was an eyewitness to the golden age?' Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply. You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks. I could show you some, but I'd have to climb ladders, and I can't climb” PeopleThinkingWellsLooksPersonsI CanShowsAgeLastsPastYoungAsksRealizingSonMarriedHollywoodGoldenAsk MeMemorableClimbsMy SonOur PastLaddersYour PastReflectingGolden AgeBogartEyewitnesses Author:Lauren Bacall