“Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue you could get better somewhere else.” RealWould BeHateOrderIndividualCitiesOughtLuckyHollywoodStructureDamnGet BetterLos AngelesMailSomewhere ElseCatalogues Book:The Little Sister: A Novel Source: The Little Sister: A Novel
“I thought I should forget Hollywood and go back to Hong Kong. I'm so lucky that finally Hollywood accepts my comedy fighting.” ShouldFightingForgetAcceptingComedyLuckyHollywoodHong KongSo Lucky Author:Jackie Chan
“It's a business of relationships. I mean that's exactly what Hollywood is to me, and I'm lucky enough to work with the same people over and over again.” PeopleMeanEnoughLuckyHollywood Author:Graham King
“There are very few distributors left to do off-Hollywood movies, and those distributors generally have got thousands of movies to choose from. So you're pretty lucky if you get one to even take your movie and it's pretty rare that they pay anything upfront.” IfsLeftPayLuckyHollywoodHollywood MoviesDistributorsYou Re Pretty Author:John Sayles
“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
“By the time I was seventeen, I was on my way to Hollywood and didn't look back. My family is supportive now, but like any adult guardian of a seventeen-year-old daughter, they were not thrilled with my plan to run off to the LA to make it as an actress. Even a somewhat functioning parent would think that was a bad, bad idea. Lucky for me, I didn't listen to them.” ThinkingWayYearsLooksIdeasRunningParentPlansLuckyDaughterAdultsMy FamilyHollywoodActressesMy WaySupportiveGuardianBad IdeasSeventeenSeventeen Years Old Author:Amber Heard
“I've had a real lucky time working in Hollywood. I've talked to other screenwriters, and they're all kind of beaten down and their spirits are crushed, because they work on these screenplays and these projects, and then directors either take them and change everything, rewrite them and make them worse, or they film them and they're nothing like how they imagined it to be.” KindRealFilmSpiritLuckyDirectorsProjectsHollywoodDown AndAll KindsBeatenCrushedScreenplaysScreenwriters Author:Daniel Clowes
“I'm not part of the Hollywood scene. I don't run around with 30 women. I have a very calm household. I'm surrounded by my grandkids and wonderful friends, and I consider myself very lucky.” RunningWonderfulSceneLuckyHollywoodCalmHouseholdGrandkidsWonderful Friends Author:Rick James
“In Hollywood, I'm lucky, I only do big movies like 'Blade.' It's much more comfortable: you have a trailer.” BigsLuckyComfortableHollywoodBladesTrailersBig Movie Author:Donnie Yen
“It's time now to rent a car, roll down the windows and prepare for your first big thrill: the freeways. They're so much fun they should charge admission. Never fret about zigzagging back and forth through six lanes of traffic at high speeds; it erases jet lag in a split second. You're now heading toward Hollywood, like any normal tourist. Breathe in that smog and feel lucky that only in L.A. will you glimpse a green sun or a brown moon. Forget the propaganda you've heard about clean air; demand oxygen you can see in all its glorious discoloration.” FeelsShouldFirstsBigsFunForgetSunHeardAirCarLuckyMoonDemandNormalSixWindowHollywoodGreenCleanBreatheSpeedPropagandaGloriousBrownSplitsTrafficThrillGlimpseOxygenBack And ForthEraseJetTouristsLanesHeadingsAdmissionFreewaysHigh SpeedLagClean AirSmogJet Lag Book:Crackpot, the Obsessions of John Waters Source: Crackpot, the Obsessions of John Waters
“I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I was. I do wish I had known that at the time because beauty is power. I didn't realise how lucky I was to be young, beautiful and in Hollywood. It didn't hit me. Every day I woke up, went to the film studio and just got on with it.” BeautifulFilmYoungWishKnownLuckyHollywoodPhotographStudiosRealisingLooking GoodBe YoungOld Photographs Author:Joan Collins
“I just feel lucky to have grown up where I did because I think it gave me a nice base. Hollywood can really mess with your sense of self and I feel like coming from the South keeps me pretty grounded.” ThinkingFeelsSelfNiceLuckyHollywoodSouthMessGroundedSense Of Self Author:Amber Benson