“When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue.” DifferentPlayRolesHappenedFrontsHollywoodThings HappenHelloQueues Author:Olivia Williams
“I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?” YearsHappensThreeStuffCuttingHappenedHollywoodThree YearsStuff Happens Author:Dana Fox
“The culture now in television is that the presenter calls the financial and, increasingly, the creative shots. It is comparable to what happened in Hollywood 15 or so years ago.” YearsCultureCreativeHappenedTelevisionShotsYears AgoHollywoodFinancialPresenter Author:Terry Wogan
“Only a dreamer or a fool would pick a stock at random and expect it to take off like a space ship from its launching pad. Certainly this has happened - about as often as a dime-store clerk has become a Hollywood star or a boy born in a log cabin has been elected President of the United States - just often enough, that is, to keep alive the Great American Dream.” Has BeensStatesEnoughDreamStarsPresidentBornSpaceUnitedBoysUnited StatesAliveHappenedFoolPicksHollywoodStoresShipsDreamerAmerican DreamDimesGreat AmericanClerksPadsCabinsLaunchingHollywood StarsLog Cabins Author:Catherine Crook de Camp
“...we do not simply get showered with Hollywood money because we happened to write a little story about wizards one day. It's not winning the lottery. It's a real job, which real people do, and they have the same real problems as other real people.” PeopleWritingLittlesRealStoriesProblemRealityJobsWinningCommunityWorkMoneyHappenedOne DayHollywoodIdeologyWizardsLotteryReal ProblemsReal JobsWinning The Lottery Author:Joanne Harris
“Why does everyone like this movie? And Americans kept going to the movie. So Hollywood figures out the market, and the market wants to know what happened in Benghazi.” KnowsWantDoeHappenedFiguresHollywoodBenghazi Author:Dana Perino
“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
“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
“I was this Swedish kid who came over here to study engineering, but I got into movies, and suddenly I'm in this 'Rocky' picture with Sylvester Stallone. And then the movie comes out, and it's a big hit, and I'm famous. Like, world famous. I wasn't thinking of ruling Hollywood; I was thinking of just trying to make it to the next day, trying to figure out what the hell happened.” ThinkingWorldTryingBigsKidsNextHellStudyHappenedFiguresHollywoodEngineeringNext DayRulingSwedishWorld Famous Author:Dolph Lundgren
“Some people say that you should go to all the parties, to the nightclubs, the Viper Room, and make contacts, and I look at them and say, 'You don't want to have contacts with those people.' Look at what happened to River Phoenix [who died in 1993 of a drug overdose outside the Viper Room]. If you get caught up in that, it ruins you. Hollywood is garbage.” PeopleIfsWantShouldLooksRoomsPartyHappenedRiversHollywoodCaughtContactRuinsCaught UpGarbagePhoenixNightclubsVipers Author:Paul Walker