Home / Topics / Hollywood Quotes

Hollywood Quotes

Browse 2771 quotes about Hollywood.

Hollywood Quotes

“Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a little provincial and insular.”

Littles Sometimes America Hollywood Towns West Coast Small Town West Coast

Author:Howard Stringer

“I do think that failure begets success sometimes, but it's often looked upon in Hollywood as not a good thing.”

Thinking Sometimes Hollywood Good Things Begets

Author:John Kapelos

“In a sometimes unreasonable business, Jack Valenti was a giant voice of reason. He was the greatest ambassador Hollywood has ever known and I will value his wisdom and friendship for all time.”

Sometimes Reason Values Voice Known Hollywood All Time Giants Unreasonable Ambassadors Voice Of Reason Wisdom And Friendship

Author:Jack Valenti

“The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice -- a sometimes ambiguous choice, but choice nonetheless. Combined with a visionary approach to experience that melded Hollywood and Americans' taste for comfort and self-deception, Las Vegas grew into the last American frontier city, as foreign at times as Prague but as quintessential as Peoria. In Las Vegas, you can choose your fantasy; in the rest of America, you don't always get to pick.”

“The movies have been so rank the last couple of years that when I see people lining up to buy tickets I sometimes think that the movies aren't drawing an audience - they're inheriting an audience. People just want to go to a movie. They're stung repeatedly, yet their desire for a good movie - for any movie - is so strong that all over the country they keep lining up.”

People Thinking Want Years Has Beens Country Sometimes Lasts Film Desire Strong Audience Couple Hollywood Drawing Tickets Good Movie Lining Up

Book:Raising Kane and Other Essays

Source: Raising Kane and Other Essays

“I felt as if I was the brunt of some massive joke at my expense: Can you believe this loser can be connected to Marlon Brando and Katharine Hepburn? But through the years I have learned to tolerate and sometimes embrace the idea. People have asked me if I consider it an honour. Well, all it indicates is that I've been in a lot of movies with a lot of people. And besides that there are plenty of other actors that would work.”

People Ifs Years Believe Wells Ideas Sometimes Film Actors Felt Jokes Hollywood Embrace Connected Plenty Massive Expenses Honour Loser Tolerate I Have Learned Through The Years Hepburn Brando

Author:Kevin Bacon

“Sometimes when you get old, you get a star on Hollywood Boulevard.”

Sometimes Stars Hollywood Old You Boulevard

Author:Jane Wiedlin

“And so you try your best. Sometimes you go in with one thing, with one desire and come out with something else. In the case of 'The Aviator' it was to create a Hollywood spectacle, but by about the second or third week of shooting you just want to literally survive it. Because don't forget, I also go through the editing process too, and when the film is released I have to talk about it. So, I take all of that very seriously.”

Want Trying Sometimes Film Desire Process Forget Cases One Thing Week Hollywood Thirds Shooting Editing Aviator Try Your Best

Author:Martin Scorsese

“Sometimes I'll have a brief window of mini-fame thanks to 'Access Hollywood.' But it only lasts a couple of days, and then no one recognizes me anymore.”

Sometimes Lasts Couple Fame Window Hollywood Access Thanks

Author:Jim Cummings

“My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it's a vacation destination for me. I say, 'Because I sometimes have perfect days there.'”

Sometimes Asks Perfect Hollywood Ask Me Destination Vacation Pals Perfect Days

Author:Ben Stein

“Sometimes, when you briefly glance in Hollywood, there's a tendency to play it in a very "Yes, she's exhausted, and yes, she's working, and yes, she's taking care of her kids full time, and yes, she's a mom, but she's also in a great mood all the time."”

Sometimes Play Care Kids Mom Hollywood Mood Tendencies Exhausted Glances Great Mood

Author:Patricia Arquette

“You learn that Hollywood has its own rules, sometimes. And it's tricky, and sometimes you can't see what's coming around the corner.”

Sometimes Hollywood Corners Tricky Around The Corner

Author:Ice Cube

“I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.”

Sometimes Home Wish Stuff Bits Careers Scene Hollywood Toronto

Author:Rachel McAdams

“'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck.”

Knows Sometimes Stars Creative Kings Hollywood Musical Circles Lions Squares Swings Crash Broadway Deck Remakes Loops Circle Of Life Times Square Broadway Musical Hairspray Lion King

Author:James Wolcott

“I love my city and I feel like the majority of the people that are in the city are people from other cities. So I think that L.A. sometimes might get a bad rap because it's known to be so Hollywood-oriented and then underneath that you have crime. But that's really the case in pretty much any major city that you go to.”

People Thinking Feels Sometimes Might Cities Known Cases Crime Majors Hollywood Majority Rap

Author:Regina King