Hollywood Quotes - Page 28

• Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.

  Joyce DeWitt

  Opposites, Desire, Theatre

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• Hollywood is a very interesting place to deal with. And having been a theatre person, I was quite surprised by the slipperiness of some people in Holly-weird. There was a part of me that just said, 'If this is the way the game is played, I'm not sure I want to play it.

  Joyce DeWitt

  Games, Play, People

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• I mean, sitcoms shouldn't be doing 'Saturday Night Live.' You can't just do bit after bit after bit. You have to string it together with tight writing and performances. Hollywood seems to have forgotten how to do this.

  Joyce DeWitt

  Writing, Mean, Night

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• Winning is everything in Hollywood.

  Olympia Dukakis

  Winning, Winning Is Everything

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People in Hollywood don't have that much sex, or at least I don't.

  Rosario Dawson

  Sex, People

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• The Chinese say that having two homes is the way to madness. I'm not mad, but I definitely wish Hollywood would move to Trafalgar Square. But the life of an actor is a life of movement, isn't it?

  Alice Eve

  Moving, Home, Squares

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• Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Stories, Levels, Harsh

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 29, 2010.

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• And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Voice, Giving, Waiting

  "The Hollywood hitman". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2000.

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• When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.

  Jenna Fischer

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  "'Office' Gossip with Jenna Fischer". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.redbookmag.com. February 23, 2011.

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• It's really hard to meet good women in Hollywood.

  Lyndsy Fonseca

  Good Woman, Hard

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think everybody else in Hollywood, including network execs, has the opportunity to ask for a raise or a change in scenery in a much shorter time frame than actors. But I do think the networks have to protect themselves.

  Jorja Fox

  Opportunity, Thinking, Actors

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• But it's a strange thing when people judge you because you're not doing some big Hollywood film. Are you suggesting I should be in The Dukes of Hazzard? I mean, hello?

  Joseph Fiennes

  Mean, Hollywood Films, Judging

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I jog up to the Hollywood sign every weekend. It's fun and what a view!

  Ariana Grande

  Fun, Weekend, Views

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• I had a friend in high school who badly wanted to make movies and would recruit me as an actor. It was always so much fun. I decided, I'm going to go to Hollywood and make movies, which is a thought I'd never had before.

  Evan Glodell

  Fun, School, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't crave Hollywood.

  Iain Glen

  Crave

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they're very adept at listening to somebody's name and repeating it, cleverly in the first couple of sentences so the name sticks to begin with.

  Ioan Gruffudd

  Couple, Names, America

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• I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe.

  Jennifer Garner

  Mean, Thinking, Islands

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• I bought a little hideaway up north, so I'll ship my motorcycle up there. It's much less dangerous than West Hollywood.

  Johnny Galecki

  Up North, Motorcycle, Littles

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• I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hollywood.

  David James Elliott

  Men, Cranes

  "David James Elliott Plunges into Sci Fi's Knights of Bloodsteel". Interview with Erin Fox, www.tvguide.com. April 17, 2009.

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• Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.

  Sam Elliott

  Vets, Vietnam, Eras

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• I don't think the idea of working in Hollywood really exists anymore. I think you work in films, and where the film is shot is where it's shot. The studio system doesn't really exist.

  Rupert Friend

  Thinking, Ideas, Film

  "Rupert Friend on Renny Harlin’s GEORGIA". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. December 4, 2009.

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• So many creeps in Hollywood.

  Roger Hodgson

  Reality, Creeps

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• Superman and Robinhood are still alive in Hollywood.

  Don Williams

  Alive, Stills

  Song: I Believe In You

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• Go to work and be a Hollywood stud, drive your four wheel drive right into the mud.

  John Mellencamp

  Art, Media, Four

  Song: Hand To Hold On To

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• I heard some famous people had an anniversary, five long years together, it was Hollywood history. Now my grandma and grandpa never made no printed page, but they took the love of 57 years right to the grave.

  Clay Walker

  Art, Grandma, Media

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