“You definitely meet a lot of extremely powerful, successful, wealthy people in Hollywood who are extremely miserable.” PeoplePowerfulSuccessfulHollywoodMiserableWealthy Author:Diablo Cody
“Hopefully, you'll be able to find enough of an audience, each time, that you can keep working, rather than getting caught up in the Hollywood system, which can so quickly become about how much money something makes and how many people went to watch it. It's very alluring. It's such a powerful machine that's playing on you, the whole time.” PeopleEnoughWholeAblePowerfulWatchesAudienceHollywoodMachinesCaughtHopefullyCaught UpAlluring Author:Sharlto Copley
“Whether it is spelled Bain and being put out by the Obama campaign or Bane and being out by Hollywood, the narratives are similar: a highly intelligent villain with offshore interests and a past both are seeking to cover up who had a powerful father and is set on pillaging society.” PastFatherInterestPowerfulHollywoodIntelligentSeekingCampaignsNarrativeVillainCover UpsBaneOffshoreHighly IntelligentObama CampaignPillaging Author:Chris Lehane
“A great screenplay is the most powerful bait in Hollywood.” PowerfulHollywoodMost PowerfulScreenplaysBait Author:Sissy Spacek
“To whom one reports is a unit of measure. It measures the exact distance between the player and the center of power. It is the closest we can get to a calibrated answer to the question 'How big am I?' More than the size of an executive's office or even his title, which no one remembers anyway, the fewer people between the player and a 'yes,' the more powerful he is.” PeopleBigsRememberAnswersPowerfulPowerPlayerOfficeHollywoodDistanceSizeTitlesReportsExecutivesFewerClosestUnits Author:Lynda Obst
“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
“They're not trying to prevent Hollywood from making movies. They're asking that the most powerful image-building machinery in the world stop grinding out killer dykes and twisted homo sex fiends as if sexual orientation had anything to do with criminal behavior.” IfsWorldTryingSexPowerfulBuildingBehaviorHollywoodAskingCriminalsMost PowerfulKillersMachineryTwistedOrientationDykesCriminal Behavior Author:Roger Ebert
“There are a lot of powerful women in Hollywood who have been movie stars for a long time who are getting into their forties and fifties. I still want to see them work.” WantLongHas BeensStillsStarsPowerfulLong TimeHollywoodFortyMovie StarPowerful Women Author:Kathy Bates
“For me, I've never been too concerned of what people think of me, so now as the youngest Baldwin brother in Hollywood making movies while simultaneously being a charismatic evangelical born again Christian who's an evangelist - that's a pretty crazy combination. But early on in my walk of faith I said a very personal prayer and made a commitment to God. I said if you reveal yourself to me in a way that is more thrilling and powerful and exciting than anything I've experience thus far, then I'll go anywhere and do whatever you want. And that can be very tough.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantMadeSaidChristianBornPrayerWalksPowerfulCrazyBrotherCommitmentToughConcernedHollywoodExcitingCombinationThrillingCommitment To GodEvangelicalBorn AgainThink Of MeCharismaticDo Whatever You WantEvangelists Author:Stephen Baldwin
“The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.” WantWritingArtArtistPowerfulCriticismHollywoodCriticsReviewsInspiring Writing Author:William Faulkner
“The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of their beauty devalued like the Russian ruble or Argentine peso;to work as bellhops, as bar hostesses, as garbage collectors, as maids. The city was a cliff and they were its stampeding lemmings. At the foot of the cliff was the valley of the broken dolls.” BeautifulSufferingPowerfulCitiesFeetHugeBrokenHollywoodBarsValleysCurrencyGarbagePatheticCliffsDollsHerdsCollectorsMaidsHumiliatedHostessesLemmings Author:Salman Rushdie
“Jesus is a powerful guy in Hollywood. Not quite as powerful as Vin Diesel, but powerful.” GuyReligionJesusPowerfulHollywoodDiesel Author:Christian Finnegan
“The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.” ThinkingI CanDreamWould BeBeautifulFilmPowerfulWonderfulCriticismHollywoodUnionsBest ThingsStatus QuoHollywood Films Author:Rainer Werner Fassbinder