“Perpetual wakefulness doesn't mean you have all physical knowledge, that you can speak all languages, that you can fix cars...that is a storybook, Hollywood version of the enlightenment experience.” MeanSpeakLanguageTeacherCarEnlightenmentHollywoodVersionsEnlightenedPerpetual Author:Frederick Lenz
“Hollywood is a very male business, and it has in vast portions of it - the whole action movie part of it might as well be the United States Army in 1943 in that the ethics of it are, you know, boot camp and action movies and guns and explosions and all the rest of it, and that - so that means that about 50% of the business is not only pretty much closed off to women, but women don't even wanna be in it!” KnowsWellsMeanStatesWholeMightActionUnitedUnited StatesEthicsGunHollywoodArmyMalesCampsBootsPortionsExplosionsAction MovieBoot CampUnited States Army Author:Nora Ephron
“The world has certain rules - Hollywood has certain rules - but it doesn't mean you have to play by them, and I don't, or I'd be a miserable person.” WorldMeanPersonsPlayCertainHollywoodMiserableMiserable Person Author:Sherilyn Fenn
“Those individuals from the far left, and I'm talking about the Hollywood elitists and the United Nations and those individuals want us to believe it's because we are contributing CO2 to the atmosphere, that's causing global warming. It's all about money. I mean, what would happen to the Weather Channel's ratings if all the sudden people weren't scared anymore?” PeopleIfsWantBelieveMeanHappensIndividualLeftNationsUnitedTalkingHollywoodScaredWeatherAtmosphereGlobal WarmingUnited NationsWant URatingContributingElitistCo2 Author:James Inhofe
“The Deer Hunter is securely on my list of American movie events, by which I mean those films that aspired to the whole equation, to be show business and art at the same time.” MeanArtWholeShowsFilmEventsHollywoodListsHuntersEquationsShow BusinessDeerAmerican MovieDeer Hunter Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to mean a movie that was financed outside corporate Hollywood, but a lot of what gets called independent these days is totally produced within that system. And there's nothing wrong with that.” ThinkingMeanUsedHollywoodIndependentHonestlyCorporateThese DaysGimmicks Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“Every star knows you step on some toes to get where you're going - and some more after you get there. Nobody means to hurt anybody else, it just happens. You always keep saying in the back of your mind that one day you will be able to right all the wrongs. That someday almost never comes.” KnowsMindMeanHappensAbleStarsHurtStepsOne DayHollywoodSomedayToes Author:Jayne Mansfield
“Hollywood is the only place in the world where an amicable divorce means each one gets fifty percent of the publicity.” WorldMeanPercentHollywoodDivorceFiftyPublicityPlaces In The World Author:Lauren Bacall
“Well, executive producer can mean anything in the world of Hollywood, sadly. It can be a bought title in many instances.” WorldWellsMeanHollywoodProducersInstanceTitlesExecutives Author:Andrew Stanton
“It means I wake up to sunshine every morning, and I can afford to drink better wine at night. But I haven't completely sold out to Hollywood.” MeanI CanNightMorningHavensDrinkHollywoodWake UpWineSunshineEvery MorningSold Out Author:Ashley Jensen
“I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog. The story that I bought it on the installment plan is untrue, the invention of a Hollywood press agent. Local color. I paid cash, $8, money I had saved as a hired hand on my uncle Calvin's farm, baling and stacking hay. Prairie hay, used as feed for the cattle in winter. It was mean work for a wiry boy, but ambition made me strong.” FirstsMeanMadeStoriesHandsUsedStrongBoysPlansColorAmbitionPagesHollywoodPaidPressesGuitarWinterSavedInventionLocalsAgentsFarmsCashWornUnclesCattleUntruePrairieHaySearsStacking Author:Gene Autry
“I remember doing one day of work, and I was so good I ended up doing 25 days on that movie. And all of it ended up on the editing room floor. That was my first Hollywood lesson: Just because you filmed a movie doesn't necessarily mean that you're in it.” FirstsMeanRememberRoomsLessonsOne DayHollywoodEditing Author:Eddie Griffin
“Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.” PeopleIfsWayWantMeanSelfActionVirtueClearHeroHollywoodCapitalistVirtuous Author:Alex Tabarrok
“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
“Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word "sophisticate" means, very simply, "obscene." A sophisticatedstory is a dirty story. Some of that meaning was wafted eastward and got itself mixed up into the present definition. So that a "sophisticate" means: one who dwells in a tower made of a DuPont substitute for ivory and holds a glass of flat champagne in one hand and an album of dirty post cards in the other.” MeanMadeStoriesHandsStreetsHollywoodGlassesDefinitionsAlbumsCardsPostsDirtyFlatsSubstitutesTowersChampagneSophisticationObsceneIvoryObscenity Author:Dorothy Parker
“Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood's Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town. I am appalled by this Marilyn Monroe cult. Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous. I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.” WellsMeanKnownMetsHollywoodUltimateLet MeTownsScreensCourageousCultFabulousLambsArcsBe CourageousActs Of CourageGarbo Author:Billy Wilder
“During the years when the barely educated immigrants were being replaced by barely educated native sons, Hollywood . . . proved a more reliable, cost-effective means of securing world domination than any nuclear arsenal or diplomatic démarche.” WorldYearsMeanSonCostHollywoodNuclearEducatedNativeImmigrantsReplacedDominationArsenalDiplomaticWorld DominationNative Son Author:Frederic Raphael
“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
“Hollywood style means classic glamour. My reference is the 1940s through the 1960s.” MeanStyleHollywoodClassic1960sGlamour Author:Kelly Wearstler
“Today, we know that time travel need not be confined to myths, science fiction, Hollywood movies, or even speculation by theoretical physicists. Time travel is possible. For example, an object traveling at high speeds ages more slowly than a stationary object. This means that if you were to travel into outer space and return, moving close to light speed, you could travel thousands of years into the Earth's future.” IfsKnowsNeedsYearsMeanLightAgeTodayEarthMovingSpaceFictionExampleObjectsReturnHollywoodScience FictionSpeedMythTime TravelSpeculationPhysicistTheoreticalConfinedOuter SpaceHigh SpeedHollywood MoviesStationary Book:Time: A Traveler's Guide Source: Time: A Traveler's Guide
“Once you capitulate to one dictator, does that mean that the next dictator or the next terrorist that says you're not going to make a comedy about - or a film at all about ISIS. All of us in public life have a responsibility right now to speak out and to say, 'No, Sony, you did the wrong thing' and to say to Hollywood, come behind - the other studios should come behind Sony and offer their support.” LifeShouldMeanDoeFilmNextSpeakBehindsResponsibilitySupportComedyRight NowOffersHollywoodStudiosTerroristDictatorIsisWrong ThingsPublic LifeSpeaks OutSony Author:Ed Royce
“I know, that trends and all of those things and formulae that calculate what audiences want to see and what audiences don't want to see and various other demographic demarcations are the eccentric and ludicrous prerogative of Hollywood studios. But out there in the real world - by which I mean the rest of the world where we make truthful organic films, independent films unimpeded by interference - it's not about all those sort of calculating what is commercial. It's about wanting to say things and saying them in a way that will get through to people.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayWantMeanRealFilmAudienceHollywoodIndependentVariousStudiosTrendsReal WorldTruthfulEccentricInterferenceDemographicsIndependent FilmCalculatingPrerogativeHollywood Studios Author:Mike Leigh
“Hollywood's thinking is very typical. And it's just really predictable too. And I think at Hollywood, these box office movies are flopping. I mean, there hasn't been an original thought coming out of Hollywood since the '80s.” ThinkingMeanOfficeHollywoodOriginalsBoxesComing OutTypical80sPredictableBox OfficeOriginal ThoughtFlopping Author:Andrea Tantaros
“I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'” IfsNeedsWellsMeanHomeRunningWishSuccessfulUniqueHollywoodBeing SuccessfulHome RunHitting Home RunsUnique Things Author:Kristen Stewart
“In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.” MeanWomenPartyPercentHollywoodDivorceMemorableFiftyPublicitySettlementBad RelationshipEquitableAfter DivorceGetting A DivorceDivorce Lawyers Author:Lauren Bacall
“What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.” KindMeanDoeSelfCertainBlackHollywood Author:Paul Mooney
“A lot of people live with no apparent means of support. I kind of envy the musicians up there. You're down here, busting your ass in Hollywood, and it's like Lily Tomlin's joke about the rat race - all you prove in the end is that you're a rat.” PeopleKindMeanEndsRaceSupportProveMusicianJokesHollywoodEnvyAssRatsLiliesRat RaceBusting Author:Kurt Voss
“I look at a picture like Scarecrow and think, 'Jesus, how could they have let us make that?' I mean, if you used technology that old nowadays, it would look like old Hollywood.” IfsThinkingLooksMeanUsedJesusTechnologyHollywoodScarecrowOld Hollywood Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“I certainly was not the romantic lead. I couldn't be that, because I was not that good looking. And that is something about Hollywood that I do not like at all. Why can't a woman who is just normally good looking fall in love? I mean, everybody in the movies is so good looking.” MeanFallHollywoodFalling In LoveLooking Good Author:Elaine Stritch
“Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.” KindMeanCountryMiddleHollywoodIndependenceEastDecadesCinemaMiddle EastEgypt Author:Bassem Youssef
“When you think about it there's never really been a realistic exposition of Hollywood, I mean - from the inside - showing Hollywood what it can do, what it has done, to people.” PeopleThinkingMeanDoneCan DoHollywoodRealistic Author:Jessica Lange
“What has been doing in the last week, attacking Hollywood actresses [Meryl Streep] for criticizing him, I mean what would is this guy [Donald Trump] living in?” MeanHas BeensLastsGuyWeekTrumpHollywoodActressesCriticizeThis GuyAttacking Author:John Lewis
“A lot of kids think they can just go to Hollywood and become an actor or actress. It's not that easy. There are millions of kids who come out here wanting to act. So, you have to have a plan, and you have to stick with that plan, because it's not going to be easy by any means.” ThinkingMeanKidsActorsEasyMillionsPlansHollywoodSticksActresses Author:Michael Clarke Duncan
“I want studios that make story-based games to start taking their stories more seriously. And that doesn't mean hiring a big shot writer from Hollywood; it means that story becomes integral to making your game. I don't see how you can achieve that without having an in-house writer that sits next to the designer, helping them make their levels, talking with the engineers about where we can tell the story more dynamically, pushing at technology.” WantMeanHelpingStoriesBigsNextGamesHouseLevelsTalkingTechnologyAchieveShotsHollywoodStudiosDesignerPushingEngineersHiringBig Shots Author:Neil Druckmann
“'Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.” MeanWinningFailingHollywoodPizzaSalmonPeakingSmoked Salmon Author:Roseanne Barr
“My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.” IfsKnowsLooksMeanMotherHouseStarsBehindsMillionsHollywoodMilesBlockGrandmotherHanging OutMy GrandmotherMovie StarRopeArrivingMiles AwayPremieresBoulevard Author:Carol Burnett
“I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It's very unusual in Hollywood. Few people are trustworthy - a handshake means nothing to them. They feel they're required to keep an agreement with you only if you're successful or they need you.” PeopleIfsNeedsFeelsTryingMeanLongMillionsSuccessfulHonorCostLong TimeHollywoodDollarsAgreementUnusualNeed YouTrustworthyHandshake Author:James Cameron
“The Hollywood I know has allowed me the opportunity after opportunity to keep doing new things and not send me out to pasture. I don't want to go to pasture. It's cold. I'm allergic to grass. And the cows are mean.” KnowsWantMeanOpportunityWomenColdHollywoodGrassCowsNew ThingsPasturesAllergic Author:Sandra Bullock
“I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.” MeanWorryDegreesHollywood Author:Peter Sarsgaard
“This country's crazy in terms of fame and what people think it means. They expect a writer to be something between a Hollywood starlet and the village idiot.” PeopleThinkingMeanCountryTermCrazyFameHollywoodIdiotVillageStarletsVillage Idiots Author:Kent Haruf
“I dont know that I want to act 15 years from now. I mean, I love the process of acting, but not the masochism. No matter how successful you get in Hollywood, you cannot rest. Your new movie doesn't open well; they're looking for the next person to replace you; it's always something. You never have true peace.” KnowsWantYearsWellsMeanPersonsMatterNextProcessActingSuccessfulHollywoodTrue PeaceMasochism Author:Emma Caulfield
“Glamour's my thing. The glamour is what got me into this business in the first place. I lived in a fantasy world in order to survive. Now that I'm here, I plan to work it. That means playing the part--long, tight dresses, slick! Unless you rise to the occasion, Hollywood doesn't really exist.” WorldFirstsMeanLongOrderFantasyPlansHollywoodDressesOccasionsWorking ItGlamourSlickFantasy WorldsTight Dresses Author:Theresa Randle