“The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving cars appear in countless science fiction movies. By Hollywood standards, they are so normal we don't even notice them. But in real life, they still don't exist. What if you could buy one today?” IfsStillsRealSelfTodayFictionCarElementsNormalStandardsHollywoodScience FictionDrivingReal LifeWhat IfDefining1960sKnightsRidersScience Fiction MovieDriving Cars Author:Sebastian Thrun
“The normal Hollywood approach is to have a super-charged production company and then go to the studios for distribution and marketing.” CompanyNormalApproachHollywoodMarketingProductionsStudiosDistribution Author:Robert Simonds
“The early symptoms of the disease [California Curse], which break out almost on arrival in Hollywood, are a sense of exaggerated self-importance and self-centeredness which naturally alienates all old friends. Next comes a great desire for and belief in the importance of money above all else, a loss of the normal sense of humor and proportion and finally, in extreme cases, the abandonment of all previous standards of moral value.” SelfDesireValuesNextBeliefLossMoralBreakCasesDiseaseNormalStandardsHollywoodImportanceExtremesCaliforniaCurseProportionSense Of HumorSymptomsAbandonmentOld FriendsArrivalsExaggeratedBreak OutMoral ValuesSelf-importanceSelf CenterednessCenteredness Author:Elinor Glyn
“My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character.” WorldShouldPersonsMadeCharacterMistakeAudienceLoversNormalOrdinaryShould HaveHollywoodSaneNeuroticOrdinary PersonPerfectly NormalLead Characters Author:Gene Wilder
“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 just think my family is so normal, but no one wants to accept that. I find my family to be normal because there's an understanding of what every job entails. And it is a job. It's not this fantasy that Hollywood and movies are all glitter and stardust.” ThinkingWantJobsUnderstandingAcceptingFantasyNormalMy FamilyHollywoodGlitterStardust Author:Elizabeth Olsen
“I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.” PeopleThinkingNormalHollywoodDedicated Author:Angelina Jolie
“I just make [music] for the people that always enjoyed hearing from me. I make it for people that enjoy the energy of rap music or a good rhyme. I do it for the people I see everyday, not the Hollywood ass people, the normal people.” PeopleEnergyEnjoyNormalHollywoodEverydayHearingRapAssEnjoyedRhymeRap Music Author:Mic Geronimo
“I'm wide open to getting married, but actors are not easy people to date. You end up sharing that person with this other mistress that is their career. I very much like the traditional courtship method of making a date. That's what they do in normal places, but Hollywood's not normal.” PeoplePersonsEndsActorsEasyCareersNormalMarriedHollywoodMethodWideTraditionalMistressGetting MarriedCourtship Author:Seth MacFarlane
“I wanted people to see that I really am a real person. I'm not just some guy who was on a TV show, some guy engulfed in the Hollywood life. I'm just a normal guy when it comes down to it.” PeoplePersonsRealShowsWantedGuyTvsNormalHollywoodTv ShowsReal PersonScottyHollywood Life Author:Scotty McCreery
“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
“There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare animal in a zoo.” SeemsAnimalKnownNormalHollywoodImpressionZoos Author:Irene Dunne
“This is a terrible place to spend your life in. Nobody in Hollywood is normal. Absolutely nobody. And they have such a vicious attitude toward one another. They say much worse things about each other than outsiders say about them, and nobody has any real friends.” RealAttitudeTerribleNormalHollywoodOutsidersReal FriendsVicious Author:Gary Cooper