“Dune was really my first Hollywood job. It was such a small part, but I opened the movie. I was about 19 years old and I had to make this speech, and I didn't understand most of the words because they were, you know, words from Dune.” KnowsYearsFirstsJobsSpeechHollywoodSmall Parts Author:Virginia Madsen
“Every job in Hollywood is a risk. You don't know, when you sign a contract, if something is going to pop, you don't know whether this or that network is going to support your show. You just show up and do the best work you can do, gravitate towards the best material, you know, and try to make the right choices. And the rest of it is a roll of the dice.” IfsKnowsTryingShowsJobsChoicesCan DoSupportRiskMaterialsHollywoodPopsContractsDo The BestBest WorkDiceRight ChoicesMake The Right Choice Author:Donnie Wahlberg
“I've been trying to bust into the comedy business my whole life. It's hard in Hollywood to do different things. I know this. It's a struggle.” KnowsTryingDifferentHardWholeStruggleComedyHollywoodWhole LifeDifferent Things Author:Luke Wilson
“It's hard to not get typed in Hollywood. They really want to type you. I'm trying to avoid that, because I want to do a lot of things. I know what I'm capable of. I forgive them because they don't know. They haven't seen me play Hamlet. They're not going to cast me as an English aristocrat. I'm going to have to prove that on my own. That's okay. That's what you have to fight for if you want to be an artist.” IfsKnowsWantTryingHardPlayArtistFightingMy OwnHavensTypeProveCapableOkayHollywoodForgivingCasts Author:Sam Rockwell
“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
“Hollywood is so strange because a lot of times the battlefield is just a meeting. It's not necessarily like an audition. They've seen clips of you and they know that you can perform and it's a matter of "what is your take on a character"?” KnowsMatterCharacterStrangeHollywoodMeetingsAuditionsBattlefieldsClip Author:Ryan Reynolds
“You know, making fun of the excessiveness and the priorities that are most stilted out here which does make it difficult to have a very sort of grounded, normal life because there's really nothing normal about Hollywood.” KnowsDoeFunDifficultNormalHollywoodPrioritiesGroundedNormal LifeExcessiveness Author:Debra Messing
“I think Hollywood has always, you know, there's always been glamour associated to it. And especially in the last ten years there has been a growing sort of obsession with celebrity life and celebrity culture.” ThinkingKnowsYearsHas BeensLastsCultureGrowingTenHollywoodObsessionGlamourCelebrity CultureCelebrity Life Author:Debra Messing
“Well I would say that, you know, I agree in part with that it [The Starter Wife] is fantasy and it is a romp in that, you know, the comedy stems from shining a light on the sort of more extreme aspects of the Hollywood culture. So, you know, anytime you turn up the gas, so to speak, on the stove and make things more extreme it becomes funny. But I do think that, you know, the other half of the show is absolutely relatable and that's been an important goal of ours.” ThinkingKnowsWellsImportantShowsLightTurnsCultureSpeakGoalHalfFantasyComedyAspectHollywoodAgreeShiningExtremesGasStemRelatableOther HalfStoves Author:Debra Messing
“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 you have to understand with The Room, I never approached a studio to produce, because I know no one in Hollywood will produce this. I came to Hollywood and I said "I will produce this movie the way I want it."” KnowsWayWantSaidRoomsProduceHollywoodStudios Author:Tommy Wiseau
“As far as drug abuse and all that - listen, this is Hollywood. I don't know how I was able to avoid it, but I'm lucky that I did.” KnowsAbleKnow HowDrugLuckyHollywoodAbuseDrug Abuse Author:Reagan Gomez-Preston
“Gear is money, and if there’s one thing we know about Hollywood, it’s that money talks.” IfsKnowsOne ThingHollywoodGearsMoney Talks Author:Elle Schneider
“The power of Hollywood, as we know, is that it can create these images in people's minds, and they live with those images for their whole life.” PeopleKnowsMindWholeHollywoodWhole Life Author:Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
“But you know, I'm very conscious that people criticize Hollywood. Yet we've created a form, the Western, that can be understood in every country. The good guys against the bad guys. No nuances. And the horse is the best vehicle of action in our medium. You take action, a scene, and scenery, and cut them together, and you never miss.” PeopleKnowsCountryActionTogetherFormGuyCuttingMissingSceneConsciousUnderstoodHollywoodHorseWesternMediumsCriticizeVehicleBad GuysGood GuyNuanceScenery Author:John Wayne
“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
“When you see natural disasters caught on film you realize how well they had been imagined by Hollywood for such a long time. It's all good fun. You never know who's gonna survive and who doesn't.” KnowsWellsLongFilmFunRealizingNaturalLong TimeHollywoodCaughtDisasterNatural DisasterGood Fun Author:Jared Harris
“I was a Hollywood musical fan as a kid, and I know how rare it is for someone who originates the Broadway role to get to then do it on screen.” KnowsKidsRolesKnow HowFansHollywoodMusicalScreensBroadway Author:John Lloyd Young
“You know the hardest thing to do in Hollywood is burn bridges. There is usually some sucker who still likes me. There is usually some sucker who will still work with me.” KnowsStillsHollywoodLikesHardestBridgesThings To DoHardest ThingSuckerHardest Thing To DoBurning Bridges Author:Terry Gilliam
“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
“There's a lot of actors I think that appear so much more together as the characters they portray as opposed to the actual people, so I know I've said this before: Hollywood's not a place where you're rewarded for growing up.” PeopleThinkingKnowsSaidCharacterTogetherActorsGrowing UpGrowingHollywood Author:Ryan Reynolds
“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 met Jon Lovett, who was just coming off of three years of being a presidential speech writer and had just arrived here to be a comedy writer in Hollywood. I thought he was super green, in terms of this world, but he knows so much about the world that we're attempting to write about.” KnowsWorldWritingYearsThreeTermComedyThis WorldMetsSpeechHollywoodGreenPresidentialThree YearsAttempting Author:Josh Gad
“I went to Hollywood. I put the action in Hollywood. I watched a lot of movies, maybe 100 or something close to that. I have tons of DVDs now at home. I don't know what to do with them because they're not useful anymore. My kids never watched them. I read a lot of autobiographies, listened to a lot of music by classical era composers like Franz Waxman, Max Steiner, Bernard Herrmann, Alfred Newman and Leonard Bernstein. I listened to only that kind of music the entire time I was writing, even at home.” KnowsWritingKindHomeKidsActionHollywoodErasComposerAutobiographyMaxDvdsNewman Author:Michel Hazanavicius
“I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'” PeopleKnowsHas BeensTwoDoneActorsPathHollywoodMusicalMovieTwo Paths Author:Hugh Jackman
“I'd rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don't know what's coming up for me, my ambition is not to be typecast. So I'm working on my English accent, as well as my American one. I don't want to be like 'Okay, I'm French, and I want to succeed in Hollywood!'” KnowsWantWellsSucceedAmbitionOkayHollywoodInternationalActressesAccentsMy Ambition Author:Eva Green
“Well I don't know what the city of Hollywood knows about foreign policy, but do I know that a lot of people do learn and educate themselves about policy and I don't have to be a policy expert to know that this will be a disaster.” PeopleKnowsWellsCitiesPolicyHollywoodDisasterExpertsEducateForeign Policy Author:Janeane Garofalo
“You know how Van Nuys got its name? Well, one day my little old Jewish mother was visiting me, and I took her to the top of the Hollywood Hills and had her view the valley below just at sunset. Well, mama, what would you call that? And she said, Ver nize.” KnowsWellsLittlesSaidMotherNamesViewsKnow HowOne DayHollywoodHillsSunsetValleysVansMamaVisitingJewish MotherHollywood Hills Author:Joey Bishop
“You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayPersonsLeftHollywoodTownsVacationPlasticSurgeryPlastic Surgery Author:Michael Jackson
“Hollywood is just so strange. It's like, everyone has a whole bunch of stuff boiling away and whichever one happens first, happens. That one, we're still in the process of, you know, trying to write the script. So, it's still very early stages at this point. Yeah.” KnowsWritingTryingFirstsStillsWholeHappensStuffProcessStageStrangeHollywoodYeahScriptsBunchBoiling Author:James Wan
“I think that Hollywood is sort of guilty of having a moral blind eye on this subject. While at the same time, you know, being involved in a lot of liberal causes and being involved very militantly, Hollywood is, in fact, guilty of helping to addict people to smoke.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFactsHelpingEyeCausesMoralSubjectsInvolvedHollywoodBlindGuiltySmokeAddictBlind Eyes Author:Joe Eszterhas
“It's frustrating when you come over here [Hollywood], especially from a position that I was in, in Sweden, where most people know who you are, but then you come here.” PeopleKnowsPositionHollywoodWho You AreFrustratingSweden Author:Joel Kinnaman
“Am I the only person who hopes that David Beckham has sex with Brad Pitt? I don't know who's in charge of casting in Hollywood, but make it happen before one of them is out of their prime. Can you imagine those two men together making love? If there's a man in here that's junk doesn't wiggle just a little bit at the thought of those two men together - this has nothing to do with your homophobic sexual preference. At that level it's art, you monkey. You should be honored that you share the same restroom with those Greek gods.” IfsKnowsMenShouldLittlesPersonsArtTwoHappensTogetherSexBitsLevelsImagineShareLittle BitHollywoodGreekPrimeMaking LoveMonkeysHonoredPreferenceCastingJunkMake It HappenBradHomophobicBeckhamRestroomGreek God Author:Daniel Tosh
“When I first got into this biz called show, I decided I was going to change my name, make it more Hollywood. And you know how you do that? You take your middle name and the first street that you ever lived on. So when I first started, I actually went by Sue Rural Route 2.” KnowsFirstsShowsNamesKnow HowStreetsMiddleDecidedHollywoodRoutes Author:Bonnie McFarlane
“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
“In my mind what novels do best is that they immerse us deeply into our character's world - they truly transport us deep into these spaces - but the same way you know a Hollywood movie won't end after thirty minutes, you carry in yourself the implicit contract that the novel won't throw you out of itself 'til the very end. That bulk of pages is a form of consolation, of security.” KnowsWorldWayMindEndsCharacterFormSpaceNovelMinutesSecurityPagesHollywoodThirtyContractsConsolationTransportImplicitHollywood Movies Author:Junot Diaz
“I don't really know Hollywood, and I think that L.A. needs a bit of time to really know the city, because it's such a huge city.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsBitsCitiesHugeHollywood Author:Audrey Tautou
“I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.” KnowsGoes OnHollywood Author:Nathan Lane
“When you know who you are, you know who you are. That's the real dangerous thing in Hollywood, because they all want to create you and mold you.” KnowsWantRealDangerousHollywoodWho You AreMoldDangerous Things Author:Paul Mooney
“You know, marriage is making a big comeback. I know personally that in Hollywood people are marrying people they never married before.” PeopleKnowsBigsMarriedHollywoodComebackMarrying Author:Bob Hope
“Poor Hollywood! These things happen all over the world but what a great backdrop to have Hollywood in our movie. No, but I know people who divorce a lot....and have really nice houses. But I didn't model the character on anyone in particular. And if I did, I would never tell the name.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldCharacterHappensHouseNamesPoorNiceParticularModelsHollywoodDivorceThings HappenReally NiceBackdropNice House Author:Catherine Zeta-Jones
“You know, in Hollywood you know when somebody is getting pregnant. It's supposed to be this beautiful scene: the rays are coming in and you have these beautiful perfect bodies lying on top of each other and there's the room glowing in one person's eyes and the sun coming up over the other person's shoulder.” KnowsPersonsBodyEyeBeautifulLyingPerfectRoomsSunSceneHollywoodShouldersSupposed To BeRaysPregnantGlowing Author:Staceyann Chin
“To really be known and really let someone else be known is very vulnerable. It's a weird thing. Just being an actress in Hollywood is very vulnerable. To let all these other people decide whether you're really of value or not, you have to really be strong to know that, of course, they have a right to their opinion, but their opinion doesn't matter as far as yourself.” PeopleKnowsMatterValuesCoursesStrongKnownOpinionHollywoodActressesVulnerableJust BeingWeird Things Author:Patricia Arquette
“I get it that remakes are a drag to hear about. I'm on the Internet all the time. I know what they say. Like there's no original ideas in Hollywood.” KnowsIdeasInternetHollywoodOriginalsDragRemakesOriginal Ideas Author:Michael De Luca
“You have to throw yourself into a situation of trust with these things, especially that first day when you don't know someone and you're on a massive Disney Hollywood movie set.” KnowsFirstsSituationHollywoodMassiveMovie SetsHollywood Movies Author:Richard Madden
“Have you seen Bernie Sanders rallies? I haven`t seen that many white voters since the Oscars. You know - oh, we have some Hollywood fans here.” KnowsWhiteFansHavensHollywoodVotersOscars Author:Killer Mike
“A lot of nudity in my early movies was out of necessity. When I came out to Hollywood, I didn't know anybody, I didn't have any connections. I did what a lot of people have to do in the real world, and just work up from the bottom.” PeopleKnowsWorldRealConnectionsHollywoodBottomReal WorldNudity Author:Amber Heard
“Well, that would be a title [the busiest guy in Hollywood] still reserved for Ryan Seacrest. I have one assistant; he has about nine. I don't have a food taster yet, I don't have a fluffer either. But, yes there are some days when I don't know if I am coming or going.” IfsKnowsWellsStillsWould BeGuyHollywoodNineTitlesReservedAssistants Author:Joel McHale
“I went back to Holland and I thought 'Ok, now I made so many movies in Hollywood, I know how special effects work, how to do action for not a lot of money, and I have all of these skills now.' It was something in Holland that nobody dared to touch.” KnowsMadeActionKnow HowSpecialEffectsSkillsHollywoodLots Of MoneyHollandSpecial Effects Author:Roel Reine
“I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.” KnowsTryingBigsHollywoodBroadwayHollywood Movies Author:James Earl Jones