“True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.” ShowsHollywoodMythFadesShow BusinessTrue FriendTrue Friendship Author:Kent McCord
“My first ten years in Hollywood were really tough. I'd be coaching friends who came to me for acting advice, and then they'd make it before I did. I'd still be helping them while they were on movie sets and I had four lines on a TV show.” YearsFirstsStillsHelpingShowsLinesActingFourAdviceTvsTenToughHollywoodCoachingTv ShowsMovie Sets Author:Michael Pena
“National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.” ShowsFeelingsFilmMovingIndustryRight NowHollywoodCinemaAustraliaCyclesMisleadFilm Industry Author:Peter Weir
“I don't get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I've pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It's only now that I'm starting to read some Hollywood film scripts, and I've read some really great ones.” DoneShowsFilmMy OwnHollywoodStartingScriptsWork OutAustraliaReally GreatGreat OnesHollywood Films Author:Jason Gann
“There are no real guidelines or maps in Australia as to how to write a show, whereas in Hollywood it's where the TV industry is created and there's a lot of work that goes into development.” WritingRealShowsTvsDevelopmentIndustryHollywoodAustraliaMapsGuidelines Author:Jason Gann
“I've never been to Hollywood. I can count the number of times I've been to Los Angeles on my hands. I've never made a movie there and I've never been there for working reasons. The only reason to go there is for silly awards shows.” MadeI CanReasonShowsHandsNumbersHollywoodSillyLos AngelesAwardsAward Shows Author:Stephen Daldry
“I love the old Hollywood glam look: platinum blonde hair, the perfect red lip. It's very Marilyn Monroe and shows a pure feminine beauty.” LooksShowsPerfectHairPureRedHollywoodLipsFeminineBlondeRed LipsFeminine BeautyPlatinumGlamBlonde HairOld Hollywood Author:Christina Aguilera
“My upbringing was very un-Hollywood. I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch. I was never really smitten by the business in those days, never a fan type - just a basic kid watching TV. It wasn't like I was an insider. I was never really brought into the show business side of my father's life. I guess that's been a blessing and a downfall. But it's made my own work the initiation.” MadeShowsKidsFatherSidesBornMy OwnFansNew YorkTvsGrewTypeBlessingGrew UpHollywoodShow BusinessUpbringingDownfallInitiationInsidersWatching TvSmitten Author:Stephanie Zimbalist
“Don't thank your parents. If you were raised in a nurturing environment, you wouldn't be in show business. Don't say, 'Wow, this is heavy.' Of course it's heavy. It contains the shattered dreams of four other people.” PeopleIfsShowsDreamFilmCoursesParentEnvironmentFourHollywoodRaisedHeavyWowShow BusinessNurturingShatteredShattered Dreams Author:Conan O'Brien
“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 it's important to control your opportunities, because in the entertainment world, it's not up to you. I'm not sitting here under this naïve belief that someone in Hollywood is going, "Gaffigan! What kind of a show can I build around him?" So you have to find things that can showcase your point of view.” ThinkingWorldKindImportantShowsOpportunityBeliefViewsSittingHollywoodEntertainmentPoint Of ViewUp To YouShowcase Author:Jim Gaffigan
“We're bombarded with liberal propaganda 24/7, from the early morning shows, Hollywood movies, documentaries and sitcoms, all major newspapers, fashion magazines, the sports pages, public schools, college professors and administrators, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Unless liberals specifically seek out Ann Coulter books and columns, which I highly recommend, or tune into Fox News or conservative talk radio, they have no idea what conservatives are thinking.” ThinkingBookIdeasShowsSchoolSportsMorningFashionCollegeMajorsNewsPagesHollywoodConservativeRadioNewspapersMagazinesNo IdeaPropagandaTunesProfessorsFoxesDocumentariesPublic SchoolColumnsSitcomEarly MorningFox NewsAdministratorsHollywood MoviesTalk RadioBombardedFashion MagazinesEtceteraCollege Professors Author:Ann Coulter
“Show business can be an addiction. ... An audience would laugh at me one night, and I would chase that high for another three months.” ShowsNightThreeAudienceLaughingMonthsHollywoodAddictionShow BusinessOne NightThree Months Author:Joan Rivers
“I was absorbing a sorry truth of show business - rejection is the norm and acceptance the oddity. I was learning to cut the tops off my highs and stay with the lows where the rejections and letdowns would be shallow.” ShowsWould BeCuttingAcceptanceLowsHollywoodSorryRejectionShallowNormShow BusinessAbsorbingOdditiesLetdowns Author:Joan Rivers
“I'm also influenced by all the places I've traveled since then: I've been to Hollywood and great fashion shows and seen the world. I have a different perspective, and I mix that up.” WorldDifferentShowsFashionPerspectiveHollywoodTraveledDifferent PerspectiveFashion ShowGreat Fashion Author:Jennifer Lopez
“When you audition for shows in Hollywood, you go in, you do your scene, maybe you get an adjustment. It's sort of easy, and a lot of times it just feels sort of rote and simple. Whereas when you go to New York and you audition for plays, you walk out sweaty and intimidated and nervous and doubting yourself as an actor.” FeelsPlayShowsActorsEasySimpleWalksDoubtNew YorkSceneHollywoodNervousAuditionsAdjustmentIntimidatedDoubting Yourself Author:Ben Feldman
“That kind of friendship doesn't just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft-focus Hollywood haze. For it to last this long, and at such close quarters, some serious work had gone into it. Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as effortlessness.” KindLongEndsShowsLastsBeautifulMovingAsksMorningGoneFocusSeriousHollywoodIceDancerLive ByQuartersBalletRainbowBallet DancerHazeSkaterJumpersSerious Work Author:Tana French
“We need this city to actually live up to its name-The City of Angels. We need to spread our wings. We need to show that we are more than red carpets, we are more than Hollywood, that we are a city ourselves of open arms. We are a city of generosity and compassion.” NeedsShowsNamesCitiesCompassionArmsAngelRedHollywoodWingsSpreadGenerosityCarpetRed CarpetOpen ArmsCity Of Angels Author:Maria Shriver
“I've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own show.” WantSaidShowsBigsFilmActorsNamesMetsHollywoodHboHollywood Films Author:Chris Lilley
“Asking Hollywood to begin to show some restraint and balance in its antireligious fury is not the same as suggesting that the industry must transform itself into an agency for advancing the Word of God.” ShowsChristianReligiousIndustryBalanceHollywoodAskingAgencyWord Of GodRestraintFuryAdvancingSuggesting Book:Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values Source: Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values
“If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do; try to be shocking and dirty. They aren't really. It isn't enough to shock. It's easy to shock. Real surprise is what I'm after. Those early movies, we had drugs, which you weren't supposed to show. You weren't supposed to shoot up. We would make fun of hippies. I think that we were punk before there was punk.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingLooksRealEnoughShowsFunEasyMillionsComedyDrugHollywoodDollarsSurpriseDirtyShockPunkShockingHippieMillion Dollars Author:John Waters
“A hit show takes Hollywood magic indeed, but it also takes a lot of math and science, plus the study of polls and trends to make and sell a TV show.” ShowsStudyMagicTvsHollywoodSellsMathPlusTrendsTv ShowsPollsMath And Science Author:Kristoffer Polaha
“When I first came to America, I went into William Morris Endeavor for a meeting and I was like, "Yeah, I'm from Australia and I do comedy." I think that one of the reasons they signed me is because I wasn't like any other girl. Maybe girls don't get encouraged. The ones who get encouraged to move to Hollywood are the prettiest ones in their hometown of Iowa, or something. Whereas for me, where I come from in the western suburbs of Sydney, no one ever thought professional actors would come from there. Even my own family was like, "No one would want you on a show."” ThinkingWantFirstsReasonShowsAmericaMovingGirlActorsMy OwnComedyHollywoodYeahMeetingsWesternAustraliaEndeavorSuburbsHometownSydneyIowaOther GirlPrettiestMorris Author:Rebel Wilson
“People get famous now for I-don't-know-what. People have reality shows because they're a Hollywood socialite, and these things become very successful and they generate a shitload of money for the company. And it's multiplying, to where you're literally looking into your next door neighbor's bathroom with reckless abandon. It is like watching a fire. You can't take your eyes off of it.” PeopleKnowsShowsRealityEyeNextCompanySuccessfulFireDoorsHollywoodNeighborAbandonBathroomRecklessReality ShowsMultiplyingNext Door NeighborsSocialitesReckless Abandon Author:Johnny Depp
“There's a lot of idiots in Hollywood, a lot of people with no imagination, so as an actor you have to constantly re-show them what you can do.” PeopleShowsActorsCan DoImaginationHollywoodIdiot Author:Stephen Dorff
“[Show] business is tough. You never know who or what's real. It's tough when you get in this business, if you have no grounded foundation other than Hollywood, because this business isn't real. We're getting paid to do what we love, but it isn't real.” IfsKnowsRealShowsToughHollywoodPaidFoundationGroundedShow Business Author:Columbus Short
“I'm just really excited to promote the movie [I know The Chair ] and the show in a different way, and not just the typical Hollywood way, which I don't think I'll ever fit into.” ThinkingKnowsWayDifferentShowsFitHollywoodExcitedDifferent WaysChairsTypical Author:Shane Dawson
“Every job in Hollywood is a risk. You don't know, when you sign a contract, if something is going to pop, you don't know whether this or that network is going to support your show. You just show up and do the best work you can do, gravitate towards the best material, you know, and try to make the right choices. And the rest of it is a roll of the dice.” IfsKnowsTryingShowsJobsChoicesCan DoSupportRiskMaterialsHollywoodPopsContractsDo The BestBest WorkDiceRight ChoicesMake The Right Choice Author:Donnie Wahlberg
“Well I would say that, you know, I agree in part with that it [The Starter Wife] is fantasy and it is a romp in that, you know, the comedy stems from shining a light on the sort of more extreme aspects of the Hollywood culture. So, you know, anytime you turn up the gas, so to speak, on the stove and make things more extreme it becomes funny. But I do think that, you know, the other half of the show is absolutely relatable and that's been an important goal of ours.” ThinkingKnowsWellsImportantShowsLightTurnsCultureSpeakGoalHalfFantasyComedyAspectHollywoodAgreeShiningExtremesGasStemRelatableOther HalfStoves Author:Debra Messing
“There's going to be no more digital enhancements or digital additions to anything based on any film I direct. I'm not going to do any corrections digitally to even wires that show... If 1941 comes on Blu-ray I'm not going to go back and take the wires out because the Blu-ray will bring the wires out that are guiding the airplane down Hollywood Blvd. At this point right now I think letting movies exist in the era, with all the flaws and all of the flourishes, is a wonderful way to mark time and mark history.” IfsThinkingWayShowsFilmWonderfulRight NowDirectHollywoodMarkErasDigitalFlawsRaysAirplaneWireCorrectionsEnhancement Author:Steven Spielberg
“I think that if Hollywood has a problem, it constantly underestimates the intelligence and integrity of fans. You can be passionate about a show, but I don't think that people are obsessed to the point where it's so manic that they lose themselves and they lose a sense of their center of morality.” PeopleIfsThinkingShowsProblemLosesFansMoralityIntegrityHollywoodPassionateObsessedUnderestimateManic Author:Matthew Davis
“I had a really tough time for a few years. My show was gone. My phone wasn't ringing. There wasn't one job offer. And at that point, I thought I knew for sure that I wouldn't work in Hollywood again.” YearsShowsJobsGoneOffersToughHollywoodPhonesTough Times Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.” ArtUseShowsNamesTakenArt IsHollywoodParkingElevatorsParking LotBad Word Author:Dennis Hopper
“Joe Lieberman was threatening censorship. What I'm arguing is that if the creative people in Hollywood themselves have a responsibility, have a moral responsibility in terms of smoking, not to show smoking in movies.” PeopleIfsShowsTermResponsibilityMoralCreativeHollywoodArguingSmokingCensorshipThreateningCreative PeopleMoral Responsibility Author:Joe Eszterhas
“It is tough, every time. The ensemble is great. I would always ask Andrew, "Is this how Hollywood is? Is this how every TV show and movie is?" And he was like, "No, dude. This is not. Do not get used to this. Be thankful that this is how your first gig is."” FirstsShowsUsedAsksTvsToughHollywoodTv ShowsBeing ThankfulGigsAndrewEnsemble Author:Steven Yeun
“I was living under a desk in West Hollywood. It was a closet that I shared with another comic. I was shocked when they called me to come in to try out for the show. The chances of me getting on a TV show and winning it is like one-in-a-million. I had only been doing comedy for six years at that point, so I was basically considered an open mic-er or maybe a feature act once in awhile.” TryingYearsShowsWinningChanceMillionsComedyTvsSixHollywoodWestComicFeaturesDesksTv ShowsClosetsShockedMicsOne In A MillionWest Hollywood Author:Dat Phan
“When I first got into this biz called show, I decided I was going to change my name, make it more Hollywood. And you know how you do that? You take your middle name and the first street that you ever lived on. So when I first started, I actually went by Sue Rural Route 2.” KnowsFirstsShowsNamesKnow HowStreetsMiddleDecidedHollywoodRoutes Author:Bonnie McFarlane
“All these kids in Hollywood, the people born and raised out here, their parents are all in show business, and that's why I think we're good. That's why we're on top of the game now because we were born in it.” PeopleThinkingShowsKidsGamesParentBornHollywoodRaisedShow BusinessBorn And Raised Author:Pauly Shore
“When people think about this religion, they'll say "voodoo" this and "voodoo" that in the way the Hollywood movies show it: the sticking of pins in dolls. It's very different than Vodou - which is a religion that comes to Haiti from our ancestors in Africa. I want to differentiate it from the stereotypical, sensationalized view that we see of the religion.” PeopleThinkingWayWantDifferentShowsViewsHollywoodAncestorPinsDollsHaitiDifferentiateHollywood MoviesVoodoo Author:Edwidge Danticat
“Comedy Central was a great network, but 'Chappelle's Show' took it to a completely different level. Other shows got bigger because so many viewers were watching the 'Chappelle' reruns. For BET, the 'Real Husbands of Hollywood' has that same potential.” DifferentRealShowsLevelsComedyHusbandHollywoodBiggerViewersDifferent LevelsReruns Author:Kevin Hart
“In Hollywood they say there's no business like show business. In the hood they say there's no business like ho' business.” ShowsHollywoodShow BusinessHood Author:Curtis Jackson
“There are so many shoot-'em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.” ThinkingYearsMadeShowsActionLinesTvsHollywoodFinalsEmsTv ShowsPopulist Author:Adam McKay
“I had told my agents that I never wanted to do an hour-long TV show. I said, "I'm not that stupid." Because it's the worst lifestyle in Hollywood.” LongSaidShowsWantedHoursWorstStupidTvsHollywoodLifestyleAgentsTv Shows Author:Geena Davis
“Once you figure out what your own thing is it's all about trying to develop shows, programs that can, I guess, enhance what you already have and what you can add to Hollywood.” TryingShowsFiguresProgramHollywoodAdd Author:Ice Cube
“The blacklist against people in the entertainment industry that show up for [Donald] Trump is worse than that blacklist you heard of in Hollywood back in the forties and fifties.” PeopleShowsHeardIndustryTrumpHollywoodEntertainmentFortyEntertainment Industry Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me as a kid. I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win.” ShowsKidsCultureWinningParentWatchesHollywoodEntertainmentPopsListsAwardsOscarsPop CultureCaptivatedAward Shows Author:Billy Eichner
“It's easier to list Hollywood and TV people who don't have a radio show now, take less time to do that than to list those who do.” PeopleShowsTvsEasierHollywoodRadioLists Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There is no question in my mind that Zionists, these Jewish radicals that they dominate Hollywood, nobody argues about the show you in the Los Angeles Times article by Joel Stein bragging about it.” MindShowsHollywoodArguingRadicalLos AngelesArticlesBraggingZionist Author:David Duke
“There's been an amazing backlash for the last decade in America: political correctness. In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been. But traditional Hollywood has been much more frightened than it ever was in the '70s about presenting things that could be perceived as politically incorrect.” ThinkingWayHas BeensRealShowsLastsAmericaPoliticalMediaInternetHollywoodAffairRadioDecadesViolentTraditionalFrightenedPolitical CorrectnessPresentingCorrectnessSchizophreniaExplicitBacklashPublic AffairsTalk Radio Author:Ivan Reitman
“I have done a lot of work in Hollywood myself. I worked in television for roughly 10 years, from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s. And I was on staff at a couple of shows. I did some feature films, including originals and adaptations.” YearsDoneShowsFilmTelevisionCoupleHollywoodOriginalsIncludingFeaturesStaff80sAdaptation Author:George R. R. Martin