“Hollywood is a narcotic, not a stimulant. It wants to sell you something. Literature wants to tell you something.” WantLiteratureHollywoodSellsNarcoticsStimulants Author:Rex Murphy
“Those who say that Serena isn't serious about tennis; she wants to go Hollywood. That's true, about Hollywood. I would love to get a lot of acting gigs. But you wouldn't believe the stuff I've turned down because of my tournament schedule...I would do well beside (comedian) Chris Tucker.” WantBelieveWellsStuffActingSeriousHollywoodComedianTennisSchedulesGigsTournamentsTurned Down Author:Serena Williams
“Preparing for another opponent isn't very glamorous. But it's Hollywood. You want to see the fun parts. The meeting rooms are not super fun.” WantFunRoomsHollywoodMeetingsOpponentsPreparingGlamorous Author:Vince Kehres
“Hollywood industry people are very spoiled. I don't think they can adjust to the insane, no-money, super-hard working tradition of Japanese filmmaking. I don't think any American can go through that. They don't want to work more than twelve hours and they want Saturday and Sunday off.” PeopleThinkingWantHardHoursHard WorkIndustryTraditionHollywoodInsaneSundayTwelveFilmmakingSaturdayNo MoneySpoiledSaturday And Sunday Author:Ryuhei Kitamura
“I was fooling around one day and looking at Yahoo! Jobs. I typed in "photo" and, of course, what comes up is "One hour photo lab" or "Be a photographer in Disneyland" or jobs that no one really wants as a photographer. I saw, by chance, this ad that said, "Wanted: Photographer for premieres and Hollywood events" and I thought, "This can not be real. This is ridiculous. No one advertizes this!" I was really suspect about it.” WantSaidRealWantedJobsCoursesHoursChanceSawsEventsOne DayHollywoodPhotographerCome UpRidiculousSuspectsAdsBeing RealCan NotLabsDisneylandOne HourPremieresFooling Around Author:Jeff Vespa
“Glasses are for the brave. I do not need to pretend that I am sighted. People who need glasses and don't wear them are slightly less treacherous than people who don't need them and do-like every shallow Hollywood star who wants to be taken seriously.” PeopleWantNeedsStarsTakenHollywoodBraveGlassesShallowTreacherousHollywood Stars Author:Greg Proops
“I just think my family is so normal, but no one wants to accept that. I find my family to be normal because there's an understanding of what every job entails. And it is a job. It's not this fantasy that Hollywood and movies are all glitter and stardust.” ThinkingWantJobsUnderstandingAcceptingFantasyNormalMy FamilyHollywoodGlitterStardust Author:Elizabeth Olsen
“I like to break down barriers and I think that Hollywood is doing the same thing over and over. I want to do something new and say, "Let's evolve as artists!"” ThinkingWantArtistBreakHollywoodEvolveBarriersSomething NewBreaking Down Author:Gina Carano
“I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films; I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell. Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me.” WantStoriesFilmCertainGoalHollywoodUltimateUltimate Goal Author:Kim Jee-woon
“I'd rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don't know what's coming up for me, my ambition is not to be typecast. So I'm working on my English accent, as well as my American one. I don't want to be like 'Okay, I'm French, and I want to succeed in Hollywood!'” KnowsWantWellsSucceedAmbitionOkayHollywoodInternationalActressesAccentsMy Ambition Author:Eva Green
“You want to track Hollywood careers, look in the real estate section. You see a guy buy a house that costs $6 million, and you can literally start counting the days until he starts doing crappy movies.” WantLooksRealGuyHouseCareersMillionsCostHollywoodTrackEstatesSectionsCounting Author:Chris Rock
“I want to thank some very special people without whom I would not be here today. George Bush, Sarah Palin and the Pope. When I came to Hollywood in 1983, I had one dream. To sleep with Jodie Foster. That didn't work out, but this is nice, too.” PeopleWantDreamTodaySleepNiceSpecialHollywoodWork OutPopePalinSpecial People Author:Bill Maher
“It's just weird that out of nowhere God said, May the three best-looking guys in Hollywood have babies - Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and me. It was bizarre that God said, I want to make the planet more beautiful, and I got the call.” WantMaySaidBeautifulGuyThreePlanetsBabyHollywoodTomsBizarreCruiseBrad Author:Adam Sandler
“I always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings.” WantTryingTroubleHollywoodHappy Endings Author:Joe Eszterhas
“Eventually, if your career goes higher and higher, that's just how it is, but it's a little frightening. When I was younger and I thought about being an actor, I thought of the old Hollywood style of glamour, and that was so beautiful and appealing to me. Now, if you want to be an actor, it's not the same.” IfsWantLittlesBeautifulActorsCareersStyleHigherHollywoodFrighteningGlamourOld Hollywood Author:Tinsel Korey
“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
“When you know who you are, you know who you are. That's the real dangerous thing in Hollywood, because they all want to create you and mold you.” KnowsWantRealDangerousHollywoodWho You AreMoldDangerous Things Author:Paul Mooney
“There are definitely roles within this industry that are industry-related, but to be a good actor, you really have to want to act first. At the same time, my goal was never to go to Hollywood to make movies. I think if you come here with that attitude, then you've missed a few steps.” IfsThinkingWantFirstsActorsGoalAttitudeStepsRolesIndustryHollywoodRelatedGood Actors Author:Anthony Edwards
“Hollywood would much prefer the author be dead, so that they can buy the book and do what they want to do with it.” WantBookHollywood Author:Michael Lewis
“The Hollywood executives are, like, ‘We’re not racist, we just have to pretend to be racists because we’re capitalists. We want to sell our movies in China (and) they don’t like Kevin Hart.’” WantHollywoodSellsChinaRacistExecutivesCapitalistKevinHart Author:Bill Maher
“Hollywood is definitely now embracing a more natural approach to beauty. Staying "youthful-looking" is old news. The ubiquitous term "anti-aging" has become meaningless. Women today want to look like a more revitalized version of themselves. The bottom line is we all want to be natural. I am seeing an increasing number of people who want to match the products they use every day to a more natural, healthy lifestyle.” PeopleWantLooksUseTodayTermNaturalLinesNumbersSeeingProductsHealthyApproachNewsHollywoodAgingBottomLifestyleVersionsStayingMeaninglessBottom LineHealthy LifestyleOld News Author:Sophie Heyman Uliano
“I'm happy to get up in the morning. I'll tell you a little secret: I still want to work in Hollywood. However, I get really excited about getting on a plane, flying to a city, and talking to a group of people about finding the gifts they already have inside.” PeopleWantLittlesStillsSecretCitiesTalkingMorningGroupsFindingsHollywoodExcitedFlyingGet UpPlanesGet Real Author:Kim Coles
“I remember saying to my agent, "Listen, everybody's going out to Hollywood and making movies. I think I ought to go out there." And his advice to me was, "I wouldn't do that if I were you. If they want you in Hollywood, they'll send you." And sure enough, they did.” IfsThinkingWantEnoughRememberAdviceOughtHollywoodAgentsGoing Out Author:Morgan Freeman
“Suddenly you're the mom, or you go from ... You're not an ingénue, you don't want to play an ingénue, but it's like that line in The First Wives Club [1996]: "There are only three ages for women in Hollywood: babe, district attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy."” WantFirstsPlayAgeThreeLinesActingWifeMissingMomHollywoodClubsActressesDrivingCinemaAttorneyBabeDaisies Author:Winona Ryder
“I don't want to play into the perception that all women should look like fourteen year old boys. I don't want to add to that pressure for young girls. But in Hollywood, there is a constant pressure to look a certain way.” WayWantShouldYearsLooksPlayYoungCertainGirlBoysPerceptionHollywoodPressureConstantAddFourteen Author:Amber Heard
“I'm extremely proud of what I have achieved. I've travelled around the world twice, went from rolling quarters for cigarettes, balling my eyes out, wondering what I was going to do after losing three million dollars, to being very financially comfortable, to buying a Mercedes G Wagon to being able to get whatever I want and living in a beautiful apartment in West Hollywood, furnished exactly how I want it. Life is incredible.” WorldWantEyeAbleBeautifulLife IsThreeWonderMillionsProudComfortableLosingHollywoodDollarsWestIncrediblesAround The WorldBuyingQuartersCigaretteApartmentRollingMillion DollarsWagonsWest Hollywood Author:Shane Bunting
“I never desired to really go to Hollywood and make films, and purely because I want my entire control, which I'm used to having.” WantFilmUsedHollywood Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“No one wants to sell to just 12% of the population for the entire length of their careers. It creates a difficult and less-profitable environment. But Hollywood has lived with that limiting mantra, and only a few black stars have managed to break through.” WantStarsDifficultBlackCareersBreakEnvironmentHollywoodSellsPopulationLengthProfitableMantrasBreak Through Author:Russell Simmons
“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
“I think if you look at Hollywood as a whole and the type of content that they put out over the years, it's pretty homogeneous, right? They haven't done a really deep dive into a lot of stories of people of color. I don't want to say that there haven't been attempts, and there has been some great product that has come out over the years, but I think in 2016, we're in a world of struggle. It's not just about race, it's also about the LGBT community too and others.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWantYearsLooksHas BeensDoneWholeStoriesCommunityRaceStruggleHavensColorProductsTypeHollywoodLgbtReally DeepHomogeneousLgbt Community Author:Mike Jackson
“I am very, very uneasy with churches that have basically said, "Well, since that's what people want and that's what sells, then were going to do our worship services like Hollywood productions. We're going to have a lot of bells and whistles. We're going to have high entertainment value, and it is going to have a lot of gloss and glitter."” PeopleWantWellsSaidValuesChurchWorshipHollywoodSellsProductionsEntertainmentBellsGlitterUneasyGlossWorship Service Author:Parker J. Palmer
“I don't want to wait for Hollywood to decide that what I do is good.” WantWaitingHollywood Author:Russell Simmons
“You want to unify America with a sense of culture and decency and all of this that reasserts and reaffirms the concepts of American exceptionalism.But the left and who they are, you watch Hollywood, you watch the Oscars, you watch any left-wing, it's not even Democrat. It is ultra left-wing radical.” WantAmericaCultureLeftWatchesConceptsHollywoodWingsDemocratRadicalOscarsDecencyLeft WingUltrasExceptionalismAmerican Exceptionalism Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Fame doesn't matter. Money doesn't matter. Those things are forever fleeting. I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so that when I'm long gone my great-great-grandchildren can walk up to it and say, "That's my ancestor." That will be my legacy.” WantLongMatterStarsWalksGoneForeverFameHollywoodLegacyAncestorGrandchildrenFleetingGreat Grandchildren Author:Tracy Morgan
“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
“I want studios that make story-based games to start taking their stories more seriously. And that doesn't mean hiring a big shot writer from Hollywood; it means that story becomes integral to making your game. I don't see how you can achieve that without having an in-house writer that sits next to the designer, helping them make their levels, talking with the engineers about where we can tell the story more dynamically, pushing at technology.” WantMeanHelpingStoriesBigsNextGamesHouseLevelsTalkingTechnologyAchieveShotsHollywoodStudiosDesignerPushingEngineersHiringBig Shots Author:Neil Druckmann
“As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before.” WantActorsHollywood Author:Danny McBride
“Bollywood actors are so set in what they want, and the way they want it. And why shouldn't they be? But it is not the same in Hollywood, because the love of the audience is not the same.” WayWantActorsAudienceHollywoodBollywood Author:Mira Nair
“I want to be able to work on a project that will give people around the world the chance to represent their own people, their own culture, their own stories, rather than just Hollywood - really, you know, dominated Hollywood. And that's a dream of mine.” PeopleKnowsWorldWantGivingStoriesDreamAbleCultureChanceMinesProjectsHollywoodAround The World Author:Steven Seagal
“Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make that any man anywhere.” IfsMenWantHollywood Author:Sharon Stone
“I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.” WantBeautifulArtistHollywoodLos AngelesPlasticCommercial Art Author:Andy Warhol
“If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas.” IfsWantMovingActingNew YorkFootballCollegeHollywoodCaliforniaShopsTexasHawaiiSurfCollege Football Author:Ricky Williams
“There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and guns and computer graphics as much as I like allegory. It's a constant balancing game. I want audiences to be on this rollercoaster that fits the Hollywood mould, but I also want them to absorb my observations.” WayWantActionGamesAudienceDesignFitElementsComputerGunHollywoodConstantObservationGenreVehiclePopcornMouldAllegoryRollercoasterComputer Graphics Author:Neill Blomkamp
“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
“I won`t buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.” WantHollywoodGood Movie Author:Ewan McGregor
“It's amazing marrying someone who wants nothing to do with Hollywood.” WantHollywoodMarryingMarrying Someone Author:Nicolas Cage
“We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it's very rare to see the Chinese male actor in Hollywood movies, which is something I take great umbrage with. You know, my son is Asian. He may want to direct one day; he may want to be an actor like his father - and I want that to be open to him.” KnowsWantMayActorsFatherSonOne DayDirectHollywoodMalesFatsChineseMy SonAsianHollywood MoviesGongs Author:Nicolas Cage
“His scowl returned. "Why, if they're supposed to be Greek, are all of them speaking with an English accent?" She laughed. "Didn't you know that British is, like, the universal 'foreign' language in Hollywood? They use it in any movie where they want to have a foreign feel to it, regardless of where it's set” IfsKnowsWantFeelsUseLanguageHollywoodUniversalBritishSupposed To BeGreekLaughedAccentsForeign Language Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
“I want to be a positive role-model for my daughter. The last thing I want to put out there is that it's acceptable to be too thin or have an eating disorder because you're in Hollywood.” WantLastsRolesPositiveEatingModelsDaughterHollywoodMy DaughterDisorderRole ModelsAcceptableEating DisorderPositive Role Model Author:Tori Spelling