“Any actress will tell you - it's really hard. If you're not an A-list Hollywood movie star, if you're in the middle, there are people who assume you wouldn't do certain things without even asking you, when actually you probably would. And there are people who always think you are busy doing something else.” PeopleIfsThinkingHardCertainStarsMiddleHollywoodAskingAssumingBusyActressesListsMovie StarHollywood Movies Author:Martine McCutcheon
“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
“You can get pigeonholed in Hollywood and people think of you in a certain way.” PeopleThinkingWayCertainHollywoodThink Of You Author:Luke Wilson
“The great thing about it is, in Hollywood, certain people are very good at keeping their lives and who they are very private. I've never met anybody as down to earth and cool in Hollywood than Matt Damon.” PeopleEarthCertainMetsHollywoodVery GoodGreat ThingsDown To EarthDamon Author:Anthony Mackie
“The world has certain rules - Hollywood has certain rules - but it doesn't mean you have to play by them, and I don't, or I'd be a miserable person.” WorldMeanPersonsPlayCertainHollywoodMiserableMiserable Person Author:Sherilyn Fenn
“Welcome to Hollywood, a land just off the coast of planet Earth. I am never quite certain if I am visiting the zoo, or if I'm one of the animals in a cage.” IfsEarthFilmCertainAnimalLandPlanetsHollywoodWelcomeCoastCagesNever QuitVisitingPlanet EarthZoos Author:Elinor Glyn
“In looking at Hollywood and its structure, the director controls the medium, and I want to be in control of certain things. I want to be able to get my own ideas and my own feelings out there, and the only way to do that is to be behind the camera.” WayWantIdeasFeelingsAbleCertainMy OwnBehindsDirectorsHollywoodCamerasStructureMediums Author:Jamie Foxx
“If you're a young woman in Hollywood, then they want you to look a certain way and paint you in this and that. To this day, it's hard to find people like us, who want to kind of find deep truths, not just skirt above the top of it.” PeopleIfsWayWantLooksKindHardYoungCertainHollywoodPaintThis DayYoung WomenSkirts Author:Sherilyn Fenn
“I had written three books [Games of Throne], at that point, and each one of them was better than the other. At a certain point, as the books were doing well, I started getting interest from Hollywood, from various producers and studios who were initially interested in doing a feature film. I met with some of those people and I had phone conversations with some of those people, but I didn't see it being done as a feature film.” PeopleWellsBookDoneFilmCertainThreeGamesInterestWrittenMetsConversationHollywoodPhonesVariousStudiosProducersFeaturesThronesBeing Done Author:George R. R. Martin
“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 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
“I don't know what the misconceptions are, but I approach a small budget, artsy, independent movie in the same way as a big budget, commercial Hollywood movie. I don't get into those [details]. I have to get into my character and I concentrate on that, on the story, on researching, and on certain training if I have to be prepared physically. I think that's the most important thing.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayImportantCharacterStoriesBigsCertainApproachTrainingHollywoodIndependentImportant ThingsPreparedDetailsBudgetsBe PreparedMisconceptionHollywood Movies Author:Olga Kurylenko
“I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films; I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell. Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me.” WantStoriesFilmCertainGoalHollywoodUltimateUltimate Goal Author:Kim Jee-woon
“is grey, and I like that about all the characters, the killer, the driver... the movie has a very unlikely Hollywood ending, at the same time it helps you for a sequel too. Those are the things that I think are attractive, it's more, its real life, and people can identify with it and it just grounds it to a certain degree. That's the reason why.” PeopleThinkingRealReasonCharacterHelpingCertainDegreesHollywoodReal LifeReason WhyAttractiveDriversKillersGreyUnlikelySequels Author:George Tillman, Jr.
“I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person. And there are other parts where you would like to think that you have nothing in common with those characters, but you probably do have more than you think.” PeopleThinkingPersonsPlayCharacterCertainCommonHollywoodWho You AreReally Beautiful Author:Carla Gugino
“What I try to do is reinvigorate strategies and clichés I find in Hollywood movies. At a certain point I had these huge folders, each one classified according to subject matter or genre: people with guns, people kissing, Indians and cowboys falling off horses, getting shot, getting shot with arrows - almost every plot device. Then I cropped the cheap, recycled imagery to give exhausted images new meaning, or at least something other than their original meaning. I'm basically reassembling atoms to give them a meaning that's more au courant.” PeopleGivingTryingMatterCertainFallSubjectsHugeKissingGunShotsHollywoodHorseOriginalsStrategyGenrePlotDevicesAtomsExhaustedCowboyImageryArrowsSubject MatterHollywood MoviesFalling OffRecycledFolders Author:John Baldessari
“What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.” KindMeanDoeSelfCertainBlackHollywood Author:Paul Mooney
“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 don't want to play into the perception that all women should look like fourteen year old boys. I don't want to add to that pressure for young girls. But in Hollywood, there is a constant pressure to look a certain way.” WayWantShouldYearsLooksPlayYoungCertainGirlBoysPerceptionHollywoodPressureConstantAddFourteen Author:Amber Heard
“Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility.” WantedCertainComedyStyleTypeHollywoodComicLoudSensibilityJamGhettoBrash Author:Larry Wilmore
“Marla [from Rules Don't Apply] especially, believed that she has a certain set of rules that she had to abide by, in order to be successful in Hollywood. How she acted, how she approached things and even in her relationship with her mother - there were a lot more rules and regulations expected of ambitious women, even before they got into the door.” MotherCertainOrderSuccessfulDoorsHollywoodExpectedBeing SuccessfulAmbitiousRegulationRules And RegulationsAmbitious Women Author:Lily Collins
“To a certain extent in Hollywood you're a product, and your product is whatever sells the most, and whatever sells the most is whatever the public likes to see you do - if anything.” IfsCertainProductsHollywoodSellsLikes Author:John Malkovich
“I believe that a writer learns from every story he writes, and when you try different things, you learn different lessons. Working with other writers, as in Hollywood or in a shared world series, will also strengthen your skills, by exposing you to new ways of seeing the work, and different approaches to certain creative challenges.” WorldWayWritingTryingBelieveDifferentStoriesCertainI BelieveChallengesCreativeSeeingLessonsSkillsApproachHollywoodSeriesDifferent ThingsNew WaysExposingWorld SeriesDifferent ApproachWorking With Others Author:George R. R. Martin
“When I think about old Hollywood and the glamour of those days, women like Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn were not dressing the way some girls dress today. There was a certain mystery about them, and I feel like that's gone in our industry.” ThinkingWayFeelsTodayCertainGirlGoneGraceMysteryIndustryHollywoodDressesDressingsGlamourHepburnAudreyOld Hollywood Author:Aly Michalka
“There's a certain thought process about actors that they are in Hollywood and they sit around pools and get suntans and just get offered jobs.” JobsCertainActorsProcessHollywoodPoolThought Process Author:Chris Klein
“In Hollywood, there is a lot of pressure to do certain things and getting into drugs, alcohol, or partying a lot is a major one. I stay out of that, because it is a waste of my time. I always remember where I came from and to never change who I am - I stick to my morals, and I do not let anyone pressure me into doing things that I do not want to.” WantRememberCertainPartyMoralDrugWasteMajorsHollywoodPressureSticksAlcoholWho I AmMy TimeNever ChangeWasting My Time Author:Ashley Benson