“My first book, Fast Forward, was about growing up in the shadow of Hollywood and how kids are affected by the culture of materialism and the cult of celebrity, and I've often felt the reason my work has an audience in the UK is because it's everything the British love to hate about the Americans.” FirstsBookReasonKidsHateCultureFeltAudienceGrowing UpGrowingShadowHollywoodBritishMaterialismAffectedCultLove Hate Author:Lauren Greenfield
“I always felt that Hollywood has a way of making you feel outside.” WayFeelsFeltHollywood Author:Tim Burton
“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
“There was a part of me that felt afraid of people in Hollywood going: '**** Hollywood with their total lack of originality!'.” PeopleFeltHollywoodOriginality Author:Colin Farrell
“I have seen so few films in which the sex felt really respected by the filmmaker. Hollywood too often shies away from it or makes adolescent jokes about it... Sex is only connected to the negative because people are scared of it.” PeopleFilmSexFeltJokesNegativeHollywoodScaredConnectedFilmmaker Author:John Cameron Mitchell
“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
“In one sense, I felt not seen and heard enough as a child. At the very same time, I'm watching her and modeling her. At seventeen, I left to go to Hollywood to pursue my dream, as if there was no other option. I only learned that, the gift of it, recently. And I often forget it.” IfsChildrenEnoughDreamLeftFeltForgetHeardHollywoodPursueModelingForget ItSeventeen Author:Daphne Zuniga
“I've always been sort of entrepreneurial. ... I felt that I needed to learn how to write and produce so I could write my own thing and not worry about Hollywood finding me.” WritingFeltMy OwnWorryProduceNeededFindingsHollywoodEntrepreneurial Author:Larry Wilmore
“As a woman who doesn't necessarily fit the beauty standard in Hollywood... I really related to the narrative of looking for something you felt comfortable in that would properly express your identity, especially when your identity didn't feel like it necessarily matched the one that was being imposed on you.” FeelsFeltIdentityFitComfortableStandardsHollywoodNarrativeRelatedMatched Author:Lena Dunham
“You read these stories of people who were in Hollywood in the late '60s. After they found out about the murders, everybody was like, "Have you met [Charles] Manson? Have you been to that ranch?" In some way, everybody felt connected, but what was it like for people who really were connected.” PeopleWayStoriesFoundFeltMetsLateHollywoodMurderConnectedManson Author:Karina Longworth
“I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.” WholeBigsSpiritFeltHollywoodIndependent Author:Billie Joe Armstrong
“It felt [at the Allied set] like, "At last, I'm in Hollywood," even though I was in West London. It was like, "This is how a film should be made." It was beautiful.” ShouldMadeLastsBeautifulFilmFeltHollywoodWestLondonMade It Author:Steven Knight
“Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would... make money.” FirstsFeltHollywoodDown AndStartingMaking Money Author:Robert Redford
“The Hollywood lifestyle was just overwhelming. A party here, an interview there, magazine and modeling shoots daily, your face everywhere and girls throwing themselves at you. As great as it felt at the time, I still felt something missing, and that I needed to change.” StillsFacesGirlFeltPartyMissingNeededHollywoodLifestyleMagazinesInterviewsYour FaceOverwhelmingThrowingModeling Author:Kirk Cameron
“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
“I went to the University of Arizona. I stopped because I went there for two years and I felt like I experienced college or whatever. I'm over it. I like Hollywood better.” YearsTwoFeltCollegeHollywoodUniversityTwo YearsOver ItArizona Author:Nicole Richie
“I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.” GivingBelieveFeelingsActorsI BelieveFeltPaySunTalentHollywoodSorrySurrenderSwimmingPoolSwimming PoolFeeling Sorry Author:Cedric Hardwicke
“I lived in Hollywood long enough to learn to play tennis and become a star, but I never felt it was my home. I was never looking for a home, as a matter of fact.” LongEnoughPlayHomeStarsFeltHollywoodTennis Author:Paulette Goddard