“When I was a Hollywood press agent, I learned how the Hollywood casting system worked. There was a roster of actors who were always perfect as doctors or lawyers or laborers, and the directors just picked the types they needed and stuffed them into film after film. I do the same [with my characters], book after book.” BookCharacterFilmActorsPerfectTypeNeededDirectorsDoctorsHollywoodPressesLawyerAgentsCastingLaborersRosters Author:Richard Condon
“I actually enjoy that I never really needed to be hanging out with every celebrity in Hollywood; I just go home and hang out with my cousins, my best friends. I'm not treated like royalty; they love me to death, but they don't treat me like royalty. So it's easy for me; they'll tell me the truth, whether it hurts or not. And I need that; I've always been given that.” NeedsHomeGivenEasyEnjoyHurtNeededHollywoodTreatsTreatedHanging OutIt HurtsCousinMy Best FriendRoyaltyMy CousinTell Me The Truth Author:Queen Latifah
“Hollywood needs peripheral people like me. You're not of that world, but you're needed.” PeopleWorldNeedsNeededHollywoodLike Me Author:Kevin Sessums
“I needed to change my name just to liberate myself and find out I could do it without walking into a Hollywood casting office with the name Coppola.” NamesNeededWalkingOfficeHollywoodCasting Author:Nicolas Cage
“I've always been sort of entrepreneurial. ... I felt that I needed to learn how to write and produce so I could write my own thing and not worry about Hollywood finding me.” WritingFeltMy OwnWorryProduceNeededFindingsHollywoodEntrepreneurial Author:Larry Wilmore
“I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the director needed to have lived the culture of black Americans.” YearsWantedFilmCultureBlackWhiteNeededDirectorsYears AgoHollywoodFenceAugustWilson Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“The Hollywood lifestyle was just overwhelming. A party here, an interview there, magazine and modeling shoots daily, your face everywhere and girls throwing themselves at you. As great as it felt at the time, I still felt something missing, and that I needed to change.” StillsFacesGirlFeltPartyMissingNeededHollywoodLifestyleMagazinesInterviewsYour FaceOverwhelmingThrowingModeling Author:Kirk Cameron
“I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd bought a couple of scripts so I could see how the formatting works. I just needed to know how a Hollywood screenplay looked on the page, which was something I was totally unfamiliar with.” KnowsWritingBookKnow HowGoneCoupleNeededPagesHollywoodScriptsScreenplaysBookstoresUnfamiliar Author:Diablo Cody
“I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.” NeededHollywoodBirthdayContractsSparks18th Birthday Author:Gene Tierney