“I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.” WayYearsActorsFoundVoiceNaturalSimpleFiveStageOrdinaryHollywoodStudiosFive YearsGesturesEliminating Author:Walter Huston
“The first time I had got an offer to come to Hollywood, I turned it down. I said, "No, I'm an actor of the stage.” FirstsSaidActorsStageOffersFirst TimeHollywood Author:Kirk Douglas
“Acting on the stage is a luxury for me. I lose money. I make movies for financial reasons and this allows me the luxury of acting on Broadway. Hollywood, unfortunately, exploits actors for their own reasons, which are usually financial. So we might as well exploit Hollywood as much as it exploits us.” WellsReasonMightActorsLosesActingStageHollywoodFinancialLuxuryBroadwayExploits Author:George C. Scott
“Broadway producers are happy to have a big Hollywood name they can post on the marquee, but most of them assume that television and film stars really can't handle stage work. Too often, they're right.” BigsFilmNamesStarsStageTelevisionHollywoodAssumingHandleProducersPostsBroadwayFilm StarsMarquee Book:My First Five Husbands..And the Ones Who Got Away Source: My First Five Husbands..And the Ones Who Got Away
“Hollywood is just so strange. It's like, everyone has a whole bunch of stuff boiling away and whichever one happens first, happens. That one, we're still in the process of, you know, trying to write the script. So, it's still very early stages at this point. Yeah.” KnowsWritingTryingFirstsStillsWholeHappensStuffProcessStageStrangeHollywoodYeahScriptsBunchBoiling Author:James Wan
“The idea for Anthem the play began over twenty years ago. I was assisting in the production of another Ayn Rand work, Ideal. I moved to New York and began working on producing the play with my partners. And as a way to raise money to cover some venture debt, we decided to stage Anthem for a limited run at the Lex Theatre in Hollywood.” WayYearsIdeasPlayRunningStageNew YorkIdealsYears AgoDecidedHollywoodTwentiesRaisesMovedProductionsDebtTheatrePartnersVentureAnthemAssisting Author:Jeff Britting
“You are my Marilyn. You are my lake full of fishes. You are my sky set, my 'Hollywood in Miniature,' my pink Cadillac, my highway, my martini, the stage for my heart to rock and roll on, the screen where my movies light up.” HeartLightSkyRocksStageMy HeartHollywoodFishesScreensLakesRock And RollHighwaysLight UpMiniaturesMartiniCadillacs Book:Weetzie Bat Source: Weetzie Bat
“French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood. Thus we go from one absurdity to another - Stalinism, existentialism. Lacan, Derrida - some of them obscene ( Stalinism), some simply infantile and ridiculous ( Lacan, Derrida). What is striking, however, is the pomposity and self-importance, at each stage.” SelfStarsOpinionStageIntellectualHollywoodImportanceRidiculousExistentialismAbsurdityObsceneSelf-importanceInfantileStalinismIntellectual LifeLacanDerridaPomposity Book:Chomsky Notebook Source: Chomsky Notebook
“It’s literally true, as Shakespeare said--all the world’s a stage. It wasn’t that way when I first got into the movies in 1924, but it is now. That’s why I find Hollywood newer and more exciting every day. Whatever you hear it’s still a place where a kid from Montana can jump on a horse, ride that-a-way, and keep right on going.” WorldWayFirstsSaidStillsKidsStageHollywoodExcitingHorseMontana Author:Gary Cooper