“This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I had a great conceit to think that if all else failed I could always go to Hollywood. So when all else did fail I really went to Hollywood. And then I found out how wrong I was.” IfsThinkingTryingFoundLeftNumbersFailingTerribleHollywoodArmyConfessionConceit Author:David Niven
“When I get called in for stuff for Hollywood, I get to be the best friend of the Caucasian leadIf I want to play the main guy, I have found, I have to write it.” WantWritingPlayGuyFoundStuffHollywoodBeing The BestCaucasian Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda
“Actions which are conscious expressions of the turn-on, tune-in, drop-out rhythm are religious.The wise person devotes his life exclusively to the religious search - for therein is found the only ecstasy, the only meaning. Anything else is a competitive quarrel over (or Hollywood-love sharing of) studio props.” PersonsActionTurnsFoundReligiousWiseExpressionConsciousHollywoodStudiosRhythmTunesEcstasyQuarrelsTurn-onPropsWise Person Author:Timothy Leary
“I dislike The Exorcist, and I found it a warning sign of the dangers in a furious cinematic talent putting the audience through it (a Hitchcock phrase) without purpose, or without the nagging moral anxiety that activated Hitch. You see, I don't think William Friedkin believes in the Devil, or cares about him. I think he found exorcism a pretext for a gross-out and he calculated there was an audience for it, or a crowd ready to be challenged. Maybe I'm too much of an atheist to stand religion being so thrashed.” ThinkingBelieveCareFilmPurposeFoundMoralAudienceToo MuchTalentDangerReadyAnxietyDevilHollywoodAtheistCrowdsPhrasesWarningDislikeGrossFuriousPretextCinematicHitchcockNaggingExorcismExorcistWarning Signs Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“[On Hollywood:] I had gone there expecting to see parties that reflected the stock-in-trade of the movies - glamour. Instead, I found the same attitude toward parties that European peasants had for baths. It was something to be done methodically every Saturday night.” DoneNightFoundPartyAttitudeGoneHollywoodTradeExpectingSaturdayBathsGlamourPeasantsSaturday Night Book:I married the world Source: I married the world
“I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.” WayYearsActorsFoundVoiceNaturalSimpleFiveStageOrdinaryHollywoodStudiosFive YearsGesturesEliminating Author:Walter Huston
“The idea was to take fine art and put it into the location of the movie scripts. The script itself is collage - some of the lines come from actual movies and I've written others to make the text work with the found image. In this way, the details of old dead guys' paintings (from the collection of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, where this work will be exhibited in relation to the historical paintings) become illustrations of the movie scripts. I found this mélange of high art and Hollywood amusing.” WayArtIdeasGuyFoundLinesWrittenPaintingFineHollywoodRelationHistoricalScriptsDetailsCollectionsMuseumsLocationAmusingFine ArtsIllustrationCollagesHigh ArtFrankfurt Author:John Baldessari
“One of the myths about Dad was that he was mean. That simply wasn't true. I always found him generous to a fault but he wasn't reckless with his money, which was rather rare in Hollywood. He'd grown up with nothing and he wasn't about to fritter it all away.” MeanFoundDadHollywoodFaultsMythGenerousReckless Author:Jennifer Grant
“The most remarkable thing about Hollywood is that it does not exist. ... Hollywood, in a word, has no center, never had one, no city hall, court house, church, square, or rather it probably has some of those but they're so aimlessly thrown in with the general jumble ... that I, for one, never found them.” DoeFoundHouseChurchCitiesHollywoodCourtThrownRemarkableHallsSquaresCity Hall Author:Vicki Baum
“My boobs are, like, huge. My whole life, buying a bra was a nightmare. What I used to do when I moved to LA, I found places like Frederick's of Hollywood that make bras for... strippers.” LifeWholeUsedFoundHugeHollywoodMovedWhole LifeBuyingNightmareBras Author:Sofia Vergara
“I was inspired by Maya Deren because she was the first woman filmmaker whose films I saw. I also loved Fellini and Goddard because they were so different from Hollywood films. But when I saw the cinema verite films that were made by Drew Associates with Leacock and Pennebaker I found my passion.” FirstsMadeDifferentFilmPassionFoundSawsHollywoodInspiredCinemaFilmmakerAssociatesMy PassionHollywood Films Author:Chris Hegedus
“I've found that Hollywood's a really honest business. They don't pull any punches. They tell you exactly what you want-I want the fake breasts and the flat car and the big pool. You know, they're real up-front about it.” KnowsWantRealBigsFoundHonestCarFrontsHollywoodWhat You WantFakeBreastsFlatsPool Author:Val Kilmer
“Through failure, I found different ways to reverse my problems and get into the mainstream of Hollywood.” WayDifferentProblemFoundHollywoodDifferent WaysMainstreamReverse Author:Sylvester Stallone
“The one thing I have found about Hollywood is it's a town full of people who believe in themselves, often to a degree where they're what you would call "delusional."” PeopleBelieveFoundOne ThingDegreesHollywoodTownsDelusional Author:Diablo Cody
“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
“My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very difficult to get work so when I was born they put me into dance classes and singing classes as soon as I could walk actually.” CountryMotherFoundDifficultBornWalksClassSingingHollywoodMovedWesternSingersDance Class Author:Morgan Brittany
“I had a really negative look at the night-life side of Hollywood, which I really didn't like. I went to New York to focus on modeling, and then of course found that New York was not any different from Los Angeles.” LooksDifferentNightCoursesFoundSidesFocusNew YorkNegativeHollywoodLos AngelesModeling Author:Erin Gray