“No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.” WantedColdMountainHollywoodPatientStudiosAppetiteAmbitiousMovie MakingCold Mountain Author:Anthony Minghella
“I always wanted to do a Hollywood story. The thing about actors, though, is that they go through a streak of roles. The question is, what's in between?” StoriesWantedActorsRolesHollywoodStreaks Author:Tom Folsom
“The only reason I wanted to get one [a star on Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame] was because Simon Cowell didn't have one.” ReasonWantedStarsWalksFameHollywoodBoulevard Author:Ryan Seacrest
“In the first week of the showings of the The Matrix Revolutions, The Godfather and The Godfather Part II played on cable television. I started watching, and I was held; I wanted to go through the process again. Can anyone credit that 30 years from now there will be an audience for the three parts of The Matrix, anywhere? Even if Keanu Reeves is our president by then?” IfsYearsFirstsWantedFilmThreeProcessPresidentAudienceWeekTelevisionRevolutionHollywoodCreditCables Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with great artists from all over the world.” WorldWantAbleWantedArtistCompanyHollywoodProductionsGreat Artist Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“By the time I was 11, I wanted to be a comedian. So all those years later, I've managed to achieve my dream as a kid, and it wasn't easy. I'm on the [Hollywood] Walk of Fame and I'm one of the 25 most influential Hispanics in America, according to Time Magazine. I think my duty is to go back and tell kids, 'Whatever color you are, wherever you come from, anything and everything is possible.' And I'm living proof.” ThinkingYearsDreamKidsWantedAmericaEasyWalksAchieveColorDutyFameHollywoodProofMagazinesComedianInfluentialAnything And EverythingLiving ProofTime Magazine Author:George Lopez
“I was told that if I wanted to be a leading man in Hollywood, I couldnt possibly be thought of as gay.” IfsMenWantedGayHollywood Author:Sean Maher
“Hollywood is so governed by the ego, and I never wanted to fall into that trap.” WantedFallEgoHollywoodTrapsElise Author:Kimberly Elise
“Like in [the 1950s] if you wanted to ruin someone´s career in Hollywood you claimed he was a Communist. Nowadays, you want to ruin someone´s career in Hollywood, you claim they are Republican.” IfsWantWantedPoliticalPartyCareersRepublicanHollywoodClaimsRuinsCommunistPolitical Parties Author:Jay Leno
“I didn't want to do the obvious role that you see in Hollywood most of the time, which is the heartbroken girl who's waiting to be rescued by the guy, blah, blah, blah. I wanted to do something different.” WantHeartDifferentWantedGuyGirlWaitingRolesHollywoodObviousHeartbrokenBlah Author:Gal Gadot
“Because of 'The Birds' and 'Marnie' I was, as the expression goes, hot in Hollywood and producers and directors wanted to hire me.” WantedExpressionDirectorsBirdHollywoodHotProducers Author:Tippi Hedren
“The turning point in my career was Jaws. It was a turning point because I was a director-for-hire before Jaws and because it was such a big hit I could do any movie I wanted and Hollywood just wrote me a cheque.” BigsWantedCareersDirectorsHollywoodTurning PointsCheques Author:Steven Spielberg
“I think I just wanted to work when I finally came to Hollywood. That's what it was. I wanted to get a job, and then I wanted to get the second one.” ThinkingWantedJobsHollywood Author:Kevin Costner
“In Hollywood I got work but not the right work until Pushing Daisies. Every girl in LA wanted the part of Chuck. I was terrified - I didn't know if I could be funny.” IfsKnowsWantedGirlHollywoodIf I CouldPushingTerrifiedChuckDaisiesEvery Girl Author:Anna Friel
“At the time I came along, Hollywoods idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!” IdeasWantedLastsSexBoysHorrorHollywoodPursuitTeenagerGrossInvolvingNudity Author:John Hughes
“I think my mother became the muse because she had everything when she was in Hollywood: she had the marriage, the success, the money, all the films she wanted to do and yet even her, she had a longing and wanted to work with a film that had meaning, something more profound. And I think that was very touching to father.” ThinkingWantedFilmMotherFatherHollywoodLongingProfoundTouchingMuseMeaning Something Author:Isabella Rossellini
“I went to Hollywood to test for Martha Ivers and I thought I was going to play the part that Van Heflin played.But they wanted me to play the part of Barbara Stanwyck's husband, so I played that. Then when I finished the movie, I went back to Broadway and did another flop.” PlayWantedHusbandTestsHollywoodFinishedBroadwayVansBarbara Author:Kirk Douglas
“The Hollywood culture is so invasive, and I definitely wanted to be near it eventually.” WantedCultureHollywood Author:Carmen Ejogo
“I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing.” DoneWantedNextBornHollywoodDollarsYesterdayBest ThingsAnxiousColumbiaBargainingTime Away Author:Judy Holliday
“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
“I've always wanted to do a movie, and I really feel the urge to do it.I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.” FeelsWantedIndustryHollywoodUrgesMovie Industry Author:Ariel Pink
“I just wanted to do hair in the movies and in Hollywood, and made it work.” MadeWantedHairHollywoodMade It Author:Howard Berger
“I always wanted to make motion pictures, ever since I was a wee boy, and I was 32, and time was marching on. I met a guy who said, 'Come out to Hollywood for 10 days, and I'll get you a deal.' So I figured, 'OK, 10 days.' On the 10th day, he got me a development deal with Disney, not for a lot of money, but it allowed me to make the move.” SaidWantedMovingGuyDealsBoysDevelopmentMetsHollywoodLots Of MoneyMotion PicturesMarching On Author:Craig Ferguson
“How we approached this was I wanted this to be personal in a way. It's not a big, epic Hollywood score but really personal and intimate, and we thought guitar would be the perfect instrument for him because he's young and he has an undying spirit and all that stuff and we went on that feeling totally.” WayFeelingsBigsWould BeWantedYoungSpiritStuffPerfectHollywoodInstrumentsGuitarIntimateScoreEpic Author:A. R. Rahman
“I've witnessed racism all my life. And of course there's racism and discrimination in Hollywood. You go for a part and they say, 'Oh, we really liked her, she's amazing, but we wanted to go with something more traditional'. As if I'm not a traditional American!” IfsWantedCoursesRacismHollywoodDiscriminationTraditional Author:Zoe Saldana
“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
“Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility.” WantedCertainComedyStyleTypeHollywoodComicLoudSensibilityJamGhettoBrash Author:Larry Wilmore
“There was a period that black film had no chance of making it in Hollywood. So, people just made the made the statements that they wanted to make. Whether it was a science fiction film or whatever, b/c they were just making movie for themselves. Then there was a period where people were creating projects as their Hollywood audition 'pieces'. I feel that today we are moving back to the era where we all have our own voices.” PeopleFeelsMadeTodayWantedFilmMovingBlackVoiceChanceFictionPiecesPeriodsProjectsCreatingHollywoodScience FictionStatementsErasAuditionsMoving Back Author:Reginald Hudlin
“I was never ambitious. I just wanted to have quiet, calm, listen to public radio and say, hello, how are you? Sit down, rest. But I had an early partner named Fred Freeman, a wonderful writer who I met at Northwestern. And I thought we were doing very well with "Jack Paar," and he said, no, we got to go to Hollywood. We got to write sitcom. It's the coming thing.” WritingWellsSaidWantedWonderfulMetsQuietHollywoodCalmRadioPartnersAmbitiousHelloSitcomFreemanNorthwesternPublic Radio Author:Garry Marshall
“The Hollywood stuff in the book tended to come later. I think it was because I was worried about leading with that stuff. I wanted to try to make sure that the other stories in the book were as interesting. I wanted to spend more time on them and craft them. The thing is, with writing, it's form or content.” ThinkingWritingTryingBookStoriesWantedFormStuffInterestingHollywoodCraftsWorriedMore Time Author:Mara Wilson
“Lampoon ran out of steam in the early '80s, and wasn't able to reinvent itself because it ran out of talent. People who wanted to do this kind of stuff could suddenly make $100,000 in Hollywood right out of college.” PeopleKindAbleWantedStuffTalentCollegeHollywoodRan80sSteam Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“I've always said that to make movies, to make images and sound, is possible by one way or another. And it has not to be ruled by the Pharaohs of Egypt, the Pharaohs from Hollywood or wherever. I have tried very hard to make even a small budget picture here. It always fails. Over a dozen times. And now I know why. It was only because I wanted to be in control of the money. To spend it the way I wanted.” KnowsWaySaidHardWantedSoundFailingHollywoodOne WayBudgetsDozenEgyptPharaohs Author:Jean-Luc Godard
“I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the director needed to have lived the culture of black Americans.” YearsWantedFilmCultureBlackWhiteNeededDirectorsYears AgoHollywoodFenceAugustWilson Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“I think every filmmaker in Europe would be lying if they didn't say one day they just wanted to make a movie here in Hollywood or at least try it. It's very different from European filmmaking, because here it's like a real industry. It's very much about money and making money, which I think is fine, because it's very expensive to make movies.” IfsThinkingTryingDifferentRealWould BeWantedLyingFineIndustryOne DayEuropeHollywoodMaking MoneyFilmmakerExpensiveFilmmaking Author:Baran Odar
“From a young age, [James Baldwin] was watching all those different films. He's watching John Wayne killing off the Indians. He came to the point that the Indians were him. You had to educate yourself because the movies were not educating you. The movies were giving you a reflection of you that was not the truth. That's the trick. The movie was also giving a reflection of what the country is. Basically, a country that wanted itself to be innocent. That's the ambivalence of Hollywood.” GivingDifferentCountryAgeWantedFilmYoungReflectionHollywoodKillingTricksInnocentEducateYoung AgeWayneAmbivalence Author:Raoul Peck
“I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! And I was crazy for the Hollywood of the 1950s: Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones. They were my idea of glamour - and Sylvie Vartan, the French singer.” IdeasAgeWantedCrazyFashionDesignHollywoodTheaterSingersGlamourJennifer Author:Christian Louboutin
“After my 1985 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, I was wooed by producers in Hollywood, who told me they wanted to turn my act into a sitcom.” ShowsWantedTurnsHollywoodAppearanceProducersTonightSitcom Author:Roseanne Barr
“I wanted people to see that I really am a real person. I'm not just some guy who was on a TV show, some guy engulfed in the Hollywood life. I'm just a normal guy when it comes down to it.” PeoplePersonsRealShowsWantedGuyTvsNormalHollywoodTv ShowsReal PersonScottyHollywood Life Author:Scotty McCreery
“I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.” ThinkingWantedActorsAmountHollywoodTimingBlairUnderrated Author:Tyler Perry
“When I first got out to Hollywood, they were pushing me for sitcoms, and I didn't really have an interest in them. I wanted to do films and slowly worked that way. And then it became, I guess, this curse of the leading man.” MenWayFirstsWantedFilmInterestHollywoodCursePushingSitcom Author:Brad Pitt
“To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.” BookWantedFilmLiteratureHonestHollywoodBlessedStudiosAdapted Author:Nicholas Sparks
“I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.” PeopleWorldNeedsFeelsWantedDifficultLaughingCryHollywoodSmileFeel GoodMovieDifficult TimesHollywood MoviesSmile More Author:Steven Spielberg
“I believe the poor fierce-eyed child had figured out that with a mere fifty dollars in her purse she might somehow reach Broadway or Hollywood - or the foul kitchen of a diner (Help Wanted) in a dismal ex-prairie state, with the wind blowing, and the stars blinking, and the cars, and the bars, and the barmen, and everything soiled, torn, dead.” BelieveChildrenStatesHelpingMightWantedI BelieveStarsPoorCarWindHollywoodDollarsMereBarsKitchenFiftyFierceTornBroadwayExesFoulPursesPrairieDinersWind BlowingBarmen Book:The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated
“The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing. I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.” PeopleWantNeedsSaidI CanWholeRunningWantedJobsFilmBrainWatchesTrumpHollywoodPressureActressesBe GoodLondonPoundsSeagullSure ThingAppendix Author:Carey Mulligan
“Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.” IfsWayStoriesWantedProjectsHollywoodSurpriseScriptsCommitSurprise Me Author:Sherilyn Fenn
“Hollywood used to be run by artists and people who loved artists... people who wanted to make movies for all the right reasons. For the love. The Art. To tell stories. Yes to make money as well, but it was about both. Now I feel, it's mostly about bottom line and making money.” PeopleFeelsWellsArtReasonStoriesRunningWantedUsedArtistLinesHollywoodBottomUsed To BeMaking MoneyBottom Line Author:Matthew Lillard
“The actors I was most impressed with and who were influencing my taste were all movie actors, so I always wanted to do movies but I didnt want to go to Hollywood and become a waiter in the meantime. The chances are really slim that an actor will be discovered in Hollywood. ... Ive never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.” WantWantedJobsActorsChanceInfluenceTasteHollywoodCompromiseImpressedChances AreWaiterSlimMovie Actors Author:Gary Sinise