“A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone's scared to take a chance. There's money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.” PeopleWantLinesChanceCareersInvolvedHollywoodScaredReputationTake A ChanceFear No One Author:Billy Eichner
“Hollywood is fickle; your career can end pretty fast. If the acting jobs dry up, you have to have something to fall back on. In fact, that would be my advice to kids interested in acting - make sure you get an education too.” IfsEndsFactsWould BeKidsJobsFallActingCareersAdviceHollywoodDryFall BackFickleDry Up Author:Matthew Lawrence
“When you think of Hollywood, you think of the land of opportunity. I always want to have the opportunity to do things conducive to my career.” ThinkingWantOpportunityCareersLandHollywoodLand Of Opportunity Author:Raekwon
“Some people in Hollywood think I'm nuts with this bodybuilding stuff. They'll say, 'You're getting too big. You'll hurt your career.' But they don't understandthat high that comes from a workout, the challenge, and the personal victory.” PeopleThinkingBigsStuffChallengesHurtCareersVictoryHollywoodNutsWorkoutBodybuildingPersonal Victory Author:Joe Piscopo
“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
“I figured, when I make a movie, especially earlier in my career, one thing I was going to make sure was that the movie doesn't cost a lot and that it has potential to make a lot of money. That's how you get respect in Hollywood.” CareersOne ThingCostHollywoodLots Of Money Author:Ice Cube
“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
“Like in [the 1950s] if you wanted to ruin someone´s career in Hollywood you claimed he was a Communist. Nowadays, you want to ruin someone´s career in Hollywood, you claim they are Republican.” IfsWantWantedPoliticalPartyCareersRepublicanHollywoodClaimsRuinsCommunistPolitical Parties Author:Jay Leno
“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.” FirstsWellsWholeBigsPartyCareersHollywoodAgentsUpset Author:Salma Hayek
“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.” BigsWantedCareersDirectorsHollywoodTurning PointsCheques Author:Steven Spielberg
“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.” IfsWantAgeYoungCareersHappenedShotsHollywoodHanging OutAuditions Author:Roger Lloyd-Pack
“I would definitely like to continue my career in Hollywood, work hard and do my best.” HardCareersHard WorkHollywood Author:Rain
“You know, unfortunately divorce it happens in Kansas as much as it does in Hollywood. And, you know, women having to start over at 40, you know, for the first time in their life having to find a career and being a single parent and having to date. You know, all of those things happen everywhere in the world. It's not just Los Angeles. So I would defend the fact that there are, you know, there are other reasons to watch than just to get a laugh.” KnowsWorldFirstsDoeReasonFactsHappensParentCareersWatchesLaughingFirst TimeHollywoodDivorceThings HappenLos AngelesStarting OverKansasSingle ParentBeing A Single Parent Author:Debra Messing
“One of the things that's different about London and the English market is that theater and film and television are all based in London. It's not quite the same as in the States where if the playwright here wants a successful TV or film career, they're whisked away by Hollywood.” IfsWantDifferentStatesFilmCareersSuccessfulTelevisionTvsHollywoodTheaterLondonPlaywrightFilm And Television Author:Colin Callender
“It's immoral to parent irresponsibly... And it doesn't help matters any when prime time tv, like "Murphy Brown", a character who is supposed to represent a successful career woman of today, mocks the importance of the father by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another "lifestyle choice." Marriage is probably the best anti-poverty program there is... Even though our cultural leaders in Hollywood, network TV, the national newspapers routinely jeer at [such values] I think most of us in this room know that some things are good, and other things are wrong.” ThinkingKnowsChildrenMatterCharacterHelpingTodayValuesChoicesFatherParentRoomsLeaderCareersPovertySuccessfulTvsCallingProgramHollywoodImportanceLifestyleNewspapersBrownPrimeImmoralMurphyCareer WomenSuccessful CareerPrime TimeLifestyle ChoicesMurphy Brown Author:Dan Quayle
“I never made films like kind of career moves, like making this film in order to make that film in order to end up in Hollywood.” KindMadeEndsFilmMovingOrderCareersHollywood Author:Pawel Pawlikowski
“A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because journalists go into worlds that are not their own. Kids who go to Hollywood write coming-of-age stories for their first scripts, about what happened to them when they were sixteen. Then they write the summer camp script. At the age of twenty-three they haven't produced anything, and that's the end of the career.” WorldWritingFirstsEndsStoriesKidsAgeThreeCareersHappenedHavensCollegeBecomingApproachSummerHollywoodTwentiesScriptsJournalistComing Of AgeCampsGraduatesSixteenScreenwritersCollege GraduatesSummer Camp Author:Nora Ephron
“It is no accident that Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot and other butchers of note took special pains early in their despotic careers to suppress religion and undermine the traditional family. Theophobes would find such a characterization truly horrifying, but it's true. This explains why theophobia - while popular in faculty lounges, journalism seminars and Hollywood bacchanals - has not and probably never will attract a public following of any appreciable influence or size.” PainCareersInfluenceSpecialHollywoodNotesSizeFollowingAccidentsTraditionalJournalismFacultyPotButchersCharacterizationSeminarsTraditional Family Author:Tony Snow
“I never know what my next move will be in Hollywood. It's such an unpredictable town. People get jaded and lost and I've been able to stay a float. I think the next logical step in my career would be to start my own filmmaking empire like (Harvey Weinstein) and (Bob Weinstein) did so many years ago. I think if only the unions weren't so strict in Boston, I'd set up shop there and make films of a certain quality you don't see represented these days. I'm full of ideas and dreams.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsYearsIdeasDreamWould BeAbleFilmMovingCertainNextLostMy OwnQualityStepsCareersYears AgoHollywoodTownsUnionsThese DaysShopsEmpiresLogicalBobFilmmakingStrictUnpredictableBostonFloatsJadedHarveyNext MoveIdeas And Dreams Author:Ben Affleck
“You want to track Hollywood careers, look in the real estate section. You see a guy buy a house that costs $6 million, and you can literally start counting the days until he starts doing crappy movies.” WantLooksRealGuyHouseCareersMillionsCostHollywoodTrackEstatesSectionsCounting Author:Chris Rock
“I made the mistake early in my career, when I moved to Hollywood, of being attracted to actresses. I used to go out exclusively with actresses and other female impersonators.” MadeUsedMistakeCareersFemaleHollywoodMovedActressesImpersonators Book:Heartland Source: Heartland
“Why Hollywood has killed so many movie stars with cigarette smoking, with the romanticization of it from John Wayne to Humphrey Bogart, all those people had cancer, died of it, and sold cigarettes their whole career.” PeopleWholeStarsCareersHollywoodDiedCancerSmokingCigaretteMovie StarWayneBogart Author:Chris Hayes
“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
“One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career.” KnowsCareersHollywood Author:Bette Davis
“I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.” CareersHollywood Author:Russell Peters
“I've been in the business since I was 16, so I've had a 14-year career. I've always had acting in my blood. Doing this, whatever it is, was something I was drawn to since my earliest memories. Ironically, I lived in Hollywood, but never understood that all it took was getting an agent and being persistent.” YearsMemoriesActingCareersBloodUnderstoodHollywoodAgentsPersistent Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“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
“No one wants to sell to just 12% of the population for the entire length of their careers. It creates a difficult and less-profitable environment. But Hollywood has lived with that limiting mantra, and only a few black stars have managed to break through.” WantStarsDifficultBlackCareersBreakEnvironmentHollywoodSellsPopulationLengthProfitableMantrasBreak Through Author:Russell Simmons
“Who would know that by playing a nerdy alien and a child killer, I would have a 30-year career in Hollywood? I've outlasted so many people.” PeopleKnowsYearsChildrenCareersHollywoodAliensKillersNerdy Author:Robert Englund
“I'm wide open to getting married, but actors are not easy people to date. You end up sharing that person with this other mistress that is their career. I very much like the traditional courtship method of making a date. That's what they do in normal places, but Hollywood's not normal.” PeoplePersonsEndsActorsEasyCareersNormalMarriedHollywoodMethodWideTraditionalMistressGetting MarriedCourtship Author:Seth MacFarlane
“I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.” KindStoriesSchoolCareersPiecesWrittenStudentsHigh SchoolHollywoodNovelistsShort StoryPlaywrightStory WritersHigh School Students Author:George R. R. Martin
“I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.” SometimesHomeWishStuffBitsCareersSceneHollywoodToronto Author:Rachel McAdams
“I also read about Heathcliff's unexpected three-year career in Hollywood under the name Buck Stallion and his eventual return to the pages of Wuthering Heights.” YearsThreeNamesCareersReturnPagesHollywoodHeightUnexpectedThree YearsBucksHeathcliffStallions Author:Jasper Fforde
“It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.” IfsThinkingWantRunningCareersPathPerceptionHollywoodSuicideWhat You WantDownfall Author:Charlie Hunnam
“I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.” TryingBelieveLongNightI BelieveInterestCareersHorrorModelsHollywoodOne NightParadesOne Night Stand Author:Natasha Henstridge
“What Hollywood truly wants is for people to be themselves. I think what it's designed for is to kind of turn people into something and just make them saleable. But what it really stands for, what it really loves, are people who are unafraid to be themselves, and as you can see, these are people who are excelling in their careers.” PeopleThinkingWantKindTurnsCareersHollywoodUnafraid Author:Troian Bellisario
“All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.” ThinkingKnowsLongReasonHomeNightActorsCareersFantasyMysteryHollywoodClueFridayFriday NightLong CareersOld Hollywood Author:Kate Mara