Hollywood Quotes - Page 30

• Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.

  Josh Henderson

  World, Fast Paced

  "Ex-'Desperate Housewives' Star Josh Henderson Uses the Internet to Try to Save His Character" by Andrea Canning, abcnews.go.com. May 2, 2007.

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• I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn't much of a reality.

  Josh Henderson

  Baseball, Growing Up, Reality

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• In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.

  Ethan Hawke

  Self, Perfection, Neurosis

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• I've dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see something happen.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Cartoon, Film, Made

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• The idea of making pictures abroad is exciting when you're in Hollywood and have never worked in foreign countries. You think you'll get to see the sights and have all the fun that goes with traveling. Actually, you spend so much time on the job that you don't do much else.

  Jeffrey Hunter

  Country, Jobs, Fun

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• I've always wanted to be like the Hollywood Golden Age actors.

  Julianne Hough

  Age, Actors, Golden

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.

  Marcia Gay Harden

  Character, Age, Roles

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• One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.

  Rebecca Hall

  Black And White, Personality, Golden

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

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• I feel like a lot of people think of Hollywood as being fake, but it's only perceived that way because it takes 10 people to make someone look the way that they do. In reality, they're there because they are doing what they're passionate about.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Reality, Thinking, People

  "Vanessa Hudgens Interview BEASTLY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 28, 2011.

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• I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood.

  Brion James

  Stars, Mean, Play

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• Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row in the early 30's and, although I was still in my 20's, I demanded and received approval of cast, story and director. I don't know how I got away with it, but I did!

  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

  Directors, Stories, Four

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• My father and Mary Pickford were the reigning stars of not just Hollywood but of the world. Well, to bear my father's name was hard enough, but to work in pictures to boot was pretty foolhardy. In fact, my father was totally against it. He thought I should be off getting a good education and go into some safe profession.

  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

  Stars, Father, Names

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• It's nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film as long as it is the right thing to do.

  Neil Jordan

  Nice, Long, Film

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• I'm not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job.

  Norah Jones

  Jobs, Trying, Conquer

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• Sam Jackson is like the Jeezy of Hollywood: He's for his people.

  Young Jeezy

  People, Sam Jackson

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• When I started in the late nineties, it was all about young Hollywood. There were jobs for all of us if you were 18 to 21, were slightly good looking, or could be funny.

  Chris Klein

  Jobs, Looking Good, Young

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• I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business.

  Fran Kranz

  Becoming One, People, Age

  "Interview with Fran Kranz, Star, CBS’s Welcome to the Captain". Interview with Alex Remington, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2008.

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• Once you've been booked, people in Hollywood say, 'Oh he must be good.' All the while you're the same actor.

  Joel McHale

  People, Actors, Be Good

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

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• When I grew up, I lived in the ghettos of Hollywood; it was the most disgusting place to be. I was known as the crazy little kid. I did impressions. Then I realized that's not what I want to do. I don't want to be a comedian to please other people.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Crazy, Kids, Ghetto

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• Hollywood, how can it hurt you when it looks so good?

  Madonna Ciccone

  Hurt, Looks, Unanswered Questions

  "Song: "Hollywood" ("American Life")". July 14, 2003.

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• There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage.

  Richard Jenkins

  Sound, Stage, Walking

  "Interview: Richard Jenkins on First Lead Role in 'The Visitor,' 'Six Feet Under,' Coen Brothers". Interview with Patrick McDonald, www.hollywoodchicago.com. June 24, 2008.

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• Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is.

  Alex Kingston

  Shadow, Fame, Invisible

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• What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.

  Emir Kusturica

  Art, Poison, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox.

  Gene Kelly

  Strong, Twenties, Pounds

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• I am so stereotyped into being this Hollywood girl.

  Kim Kardashian

  Girl

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