“Actions which are conscious expressions of the turn-on, tune-in, drop-out rhythm are religious.The wise person devotes his life exclusively to the religious search - for therein is found the only ecstasy, the only meaning. Anything else is a competitive quarrel over (or Hollywood-love sharing of) studio props.” PersonsActionTurnsFoundReligiousWiseExpressionConsciousHollywoodStudiosRhythmTunesEcstasyQuarrelsTurn-onPropsWise Person Author:Timothy Leary
“In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an actor. I don't think there's a real person left in the place.” ThinkingMenPersonsRealActorsLeftHe ManHollywoodSellsVarietyCopiesPoolReal Person Author:Neil Gaiman
“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
“Occasional observers of horror movies have a nasty habit of asking why it is that there is always some poor misguided soul who opens the door to the cellar or to the attic or to the crypt when it's quite clear that no sane person would even consider it.” PersonsSoulFilmPoorClearDoorsHabitHorrorHollywoodAskingSaneNastyObserversOccasionalMisguidedCellarsAtticsAsking Why Author:Andrew Tudor
“Steve Howey is probably the funniest man in Hollywood. For real. He is just that person that can make you laugh at all times.” MenPersonsRealLaughingHollywoodAll TimeMake You Laugh Author:Shanola Hampton
“Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world.” WorldWayPersonsUnderstandingHollywoodPantheonUnderstanding The World Author:Ron Suskind
“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
“Why is Dave Chappelle going to Africa? Why does Mariah Carey make a hundred-million dollar deal and take her clothes off on TRL? A weak person can not get here and talk to you. Ain't no weak people talking to you. So what is happening in Hollywood? Nobody knows! The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive. I don't understand this person, so they're crazy. That's bullshit. These people are not crazy, they're strong people. Maybe the environment is a little sick.” PeopleKnowsLittlesPersonsDoeStrongDealsTalkingMillionsEnvironmentCrazyWorstClothesHappeningsHundredWeakHollywoodSickDollarsBullshitWorst ThingsCan NotMillion DollarsNobody KnowsDavePeople TalkingStrong PeopleWeak People Author:Dave Chappelle
“I enjoy that the most powerful person in Hollywood is indeed a Black woman in Oprah Winfrey. I'm hoping to just transcend beyond that.” PersonsEnjoyBlackPowerfulHollywoodMost PowerfulBlack WomenPowerful Person Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol
“I think the world is ready for people of color to take on more heroic and leading roles, and not always be the sidekick, the nemesis or any sort of stereotype of what a person of color can play typically in a Hollywood picture.” PeopleThinkingWorldPersonsPlayRolesColorReadyHollywoodHeroicStereotypeNemesisSidekicks Author:Jessica Alba
“I'm not going to say I'm a big girl. I'm a very small person, but I'm a healthy weight. That might be a little weird for Hollywood.” LittlesPersonsBigsMightGirlHealthyHollywoodWeightBig GirlSmall PersonHealthy Weight Author:Zooey Deschanel
“It takes a pretty strong person, a rather unusual young person, to stand up to ridicule and refuse to give in to temptation. There are so many things today in modern music, on television, and in the movies that portray a life that is nowhere near the life the Lord would have us live. Consequently, we cannot afford to turn to the radio, television, or Hollywood to take our cues about what is right and what is wrong. It is scary to realize that the more we are exposed to Hollywood's version of life, the more we gradually begin to accept it.” GivingPersonsTodayYoungTurnsStrongRealizingAcceptingLordModernTelevisionHollywoodRadioRefuseScaryVersionsTemptationUnusualExposedRidiculeStrong PersonModern Music Author:Robert L. Millet
“I have a silicone bust, and half of Hollywood - artificial person.” PersonsHalfHollywoodArtificial Author:Pamela Anderson
“I love it. It's silly to say that it is a world of false and stupid people. Sure there are witches and swindlers, but you can meet there many creative, talented and generous persons too. Hollywood is a pleasant place, when you are hip to the game and you enjoy it for what it is really.” PeopleWorldPersonsGamesEnjoyCreativeStupidHollywoodSillyHipsGenerousPleasantWitchStupid PeopleSwindlersGenerous Person Author:Matthew McConaughey
“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
“I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person. And there are other parts where you would like to think that you have nothing in common with those characters, but you probably do have more than you think.” PeopleThinkingPersonsPlayCharacterCertainCommonHollywoodWho You AreReally Beautiful Author:Carla Gugino
“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
“I like to go to England, and I'll tell you why. I like to go to a country where I am considered the best-looking person. It's as simple as that. Hollywood, kind of a crushing ego blow - 'Hey Buddy Holly, you are so old, have you not perished in a plane crash?' But not in England, good God, not there. In England, God bless that dinky island, there it's, 'Good God, look at him. He has all his teeth and his ears are in proportion to his head.' I'm Brad bloody Pitt on that island.” LooksKindPersonsCountrySimpleEgoHollywoodEarsEnglandBlowTeethHeyPlanesIslandsCrushProportionBlessBloodyCrashBuddyGod BlessBradGood GodHolliesPlane Crashes Author:Greg Proops
“I'm quite a physical person and I gesticulate a lot, which can be a problem when you're in Hollywood and they do everything in a minimalist way.” WayPersonsProblemHollywoodMinimalist Author:Gemma Arterton
“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
“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
“I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.” ShouldPersonsLongLong TimeHollywoodVoteLong Time Ago Author:Jack Nicholson
“I tell you, the paparazzi would not be sitting outside if they realized I was the most boring person in Hollywood.” IfsPersonsSittingHollywoodBoringPaparazziBoring Person Author:Victoria Beckham
“The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set.” ThinkingFirstsPersonsDifferentHouseNamesMemoriesGrowing UpGrowingHollywoodBallsLegendsFond Memories Author:Keith Thibodeaux
“I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.” PersonsHollywoodStarlets Author:Mia Wasikowska
“When I was younger, I used to vacillate between thinking love was this great and glorious mystery and thinking it was just something a bunch of Hollywood move producers made up to sell more tickets in the Depression, when Dish Night kind of played out." Eddie laughed. Now I think that all of us are born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You...Eddie, you fill me up.” ThinkingHeartKindPersonsMadeMovingUsedNightBornMysteryHollywoodSellsHolesBunchProducersGloriousLaughedDishesTicketsThinking Love Author:Stephen King
“Hollywood is like high school, there are always going to be people who hate you and people who like you. When you're a teen, [that's tough] because you're hyper-aware of what other people are gonna say and think. But neither defines who you are as a person or how successful you are unless you let them.” PeopleThinkingPersonsSchoolHateSuccessfulLike YouHigh SchoolToughHollywoodWho You AreHate YouHyper Author:Debby Ryan
“My son tells me, 'Do you realize you are the last one? The last person who was an eyewitness to the golden age?' Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply. You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks. I could show you some, but I'd have to climb ladders, and I can't climb” PeopleThinkingWellsLooksPersonsI CanShowsAgeLastsPastYoungAsksRealizingSonMarriedHollywoodGoldenAsk MeMemorableClimbsMy SonOur PastLaddersYour PastReflectingGolden AgeBogartEyewitnesses Author:Lauren Bacall
“The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.” PersonsDirectorsHollywoodArtisticMemorableSpells Author:Tom Clancy
“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
“You know, women in Hollywood, we don't get action franchises and superheroes. The rom-coms that made Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, and Reese Witherspoon stars are out of favor right now- nobody is making them. In this business, if you are an ambitious person, you don't wait for people to hand you opportunities. You have to make a way for yourself.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayPersonsMadeHandsActionOpportunityStarsWaitingRight NowHollywoodFavorsAmbitiousSuperheroJuliaAmbitious Person Author:Elizabeth Banks
“He's brilliant. At first, I thought, 'Oh, is he going to be Hollywood stud-like?' But he's a really kind, wonderful person. He said to me one day early in the making of the movie, 'You know, I was kind of worried about you'. He thought I was going to be a perfect skin, which I am certainly not. It didn't take long for Leo to crack and see who I really am, and we became very close. but, I must say, he is absolutely gorgeous.” KnowsFirstsKindPersonsLongSaidPerfectWonderfulOne DayHollywoodSkinsBrilliantWorriedCracksGorgeousStudsWonderful Person Author:Kate Winslet