Hollywood Quotes

We didn't need sex. We had Tyrone Power.

~ Barbara Cartland

I won`t buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.

~ Ewan Mcgregor

Still, I think Hardy's the most likely person in this theater to be snapped up by the studios. But he can't act! Norman protested. Sure he can't act. Neither can Nelson Eddy, and he makes a living. But Eddy can sing. All right. So Hardy can't sing either. That makes him twice as attractive.

~ Anthony Boucher

We have reached a censorship barrier in Infidelity, to our infinite disappointment. It won’t be Joan’s [Joan Crawford's] next picture and we are setting it aside awhile till we can think of a way of halfwitting halfwit Hayes and his legion of decency. Pictures needed cleaning up in 1932-33...but because they were suggestive and salacious. Of course the moralists now want to apply that to all strong themes—so the crop of the last two years is feeble and false, unless it deals with children.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Out of perverseness, I jumped on the subway and went down to a sound stage on Fourth Street to watch the shooting of Kay Doubleday's big strip scene in Mad Dog Coll, a gangster film that can still, to my embarrassment, be seen occasionally on late-night TV... Kay Doubleday was in my class at Lee Strasberg's; it was in the interest of art, I told myself, to watch her prance down a ramp, singing and stripping her heart out.

~ Brooke Hayward

If there is one Christian left who holds out hope that a God honoring, biblically accurate, mainstream Hollywood movie will emerge, I have some advice for you…stop waiting, it’s not going to happen, move on. If you want authentic Scripture, read the Scripture.

~ William Branks

No one likes to be typecast or stereotyped, especially actors. But who would know Esther Williams without a swimming pool, Bela Lugosi without a cape, or Elvis Presley without his guitar. Would we even care?

~ Susan Marg

At the conclusion of Hollywood disaster movies and epics, time moves backward, piecing together like a jigsaw the elements that had come apart. The Titanic resumes its journey; Russell Crowe is reunited with his murdered wife and son. It's not a happy ending; it's a convention created for the purposes of an impossible sense of uplift at the end of death and tragedy: the happy beginning. Technology makes Hades unnecessary.

~ Amit Chaudhuri

What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better disguise could there be than to get your image enshrined in the culture of the mass media? Anything that's described in artistic terms and shown in the movies stops being frightening and mysterious. For real horror you need the spoken word, you need an old grandpa sitting on a bench, scaring the grandkids in the evening: 'And then the Master of the house came to him and said: I won't let you go, I'll tie you up and bind you tight and you'll rot under the fallen branches!' That's the way to make people wary of anomalous phenomena! Kids sense that, you know–it's no wonder they love telling stories about the Black Han and the Coffin on Wheels. But modern literature, and especially the movies, it all just dilutes that instinctive horror. How can you feel afraid of Dracula, if he's been killed a hundred times? How can you be afraid of aliens, if our guys always squelch them? Yes, Hollywood is the great luller of human vigilance. A toast–to the death of Hollywood, for depriving us of a healthy fear of the unknown!

~ Sergei Lukyanenko

Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.

~ John Huston

In Hollywood, normally things don't work out, and dreams are crushed.

~ Jessica St. Clair

In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it.

~ Scott Caan

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

~ Patti Smith

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

~ Jamie Foxx

People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.

~ Megan Fox

Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.

~ Mickey Rourke

You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.

~ Rainn Wilson

While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

~ Roger Ebert

It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.

~ Jane Fonda

There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.

~ Fay Wray

It's amazing marrying someone who wants nothing to do with Hollywood.

~ Nicolas Cage

I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood.

~ Paz Vega

For 30 years, which I never talked about in Hollywood, I actually worked with doctors lecturing and doing some medical intuitive counseling both in a medical setting and for the community at large.

~ Diane Ladd

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.

~ Robert De Niro

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

~ Marlon Brando

I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel.

~ H. R. Giger

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

~ Gene Tierney

Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.

~ Liam Neeson

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

~ Elvis Presley

I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset Boulevard' starring Gloria Swanson.

~ Amanda Donohoe

I want to become a Hollywood film star. I genuinely would love to be in some movies.

~ James Arthur

I like stories that grow, that have unpredictable layers. As opposed to Hollywood movies that start out with a lot of shock and noise and peter out into an unconvincing cliche.

~ Peter Falk

I was never that into the movies. Never. Even as a youngster. I became interested in movie music only because of the studio orchestras in Hollywood.

~ John Williams

I think they built Hollywood on the West Coast because they were always dreaming of a New World. When they arrived here, the only way to keep dreaming was to make movies. Film was the fourth dimension.

~ Denis Villeneuve

I came to the plain fields of Ohio with pictures painted by Hollywood movies and the works of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. None of them had much to say, if at all, about Dayton, Ohio.

~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

~ Stan Brakhage

Cult movies are basically movies Hollywood missed the first time - that they should have gotten - and then the fans got it and made it successful.

~ Troy Duffy

It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.

~ Camille Paglia

Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.

~ Dennis Miller