Hollywood Quotes - Page 15

• Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

  Jack Nicholson

  Kind, Film, Certain

  "Jack Nicholson: The Ultimate Viewing Guide". Interview with Adam Smith, www.empireonline.com. July 22, 2014.

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• I make my pictures for what Hollywood spends on lipstick.

  Maya Deren

  Lipstick

  "Arcade Fire's Reflektions of Maya Deren" by Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. September 11, 2013.

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• For me, it’s not about breaking big in Hollywood, but having interesting experiences.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Interesting, Bigs

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• If you go to Hollywood, you've already sold out.

  Bruce Campbell

  Sold Out, Ifs

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

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• WHAT is America but beauty queens, millionaires, stupid records and Hollywood?

  Adolf Hitler

  Queens, Stupid, America

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• If it isn’t for the writing, we’ve got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let them know it.

  Irving Thalberg

  Writing, Knowing, People

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• Hollywood is much more than America. Hollywood belongs to all of the planet.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  America, Planets

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• I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.

  J. J. Johnson

  Hollywood Films, Community, Lucky

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• Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA.

  Jack Valenti

  Spring, Dna

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• There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.

  Matt Stone

  Smugness, Aggravating

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

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• You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.

  Priscilla Presley

  Mother, Father, Dating

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• I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.

  Leonard Maltin

  Thinking, People, Sentimental

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• Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.

  Yahoo Serious

  Real, Office, Devil

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hollywood has treated me well.

  Paz Vega

  Wells, Treated

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• The farm was a great place to grow up, but I preferred the Hollywood Hills. My aunt looked like Lucille Ball and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was intelligent enough to understand I would never be like her.

  Sandra Lerner

  Beautiful, Growing Up, Aunt

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• A cigarette in the hands of a Hollywood star onscreen is a gun aimed at a 12- or 14-year-old.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Stars, Gun, Hands

  "Hollywood's Responsibility for Smoking Deaths" by Joe Eszterhas, www.nytimes.com. August 9, 2002.

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• Everybody told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place they said I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was that no one would quite know what to do with me.

  Persis Khambatta

  Careers, Bigs, Said

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• There's no doubt I was a bit of a misfit in the Hollywood of the forties. The race for glamour left me far behind. I didn't really want to keep up. I wanted my stardom without the usual trimmings. Because of this, I was branded a rebel at the very least. But I don't regret that for a minute. My appetite was my own and I simply wouldn't have it any other way.

  Veronica Lake

  Regret, Race, Doubt

  Veronica Lake, Donald M. Bain (1971). “Veronica”

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• Alan Ladd was a marvelous person in his simplicity. In so many ways we were kindred spirits. We both were professionally conceived through Hollywood's search for box office and the types to insure the box office. And we were both little people. Alan wasn't as short as most people believe. It was true that in certain films Alan would climb a small platform or the girl worked in a slit trench. We had no such problems together.

  Veronica Lake

  Girl, Believe, Office

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

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• I see no hope for a revival among God's people today. They are so enamored and so cluttered up with Hollywood and newspapers and magazines and parties and bowling alleys and camping trips and everything else. How in the world are they going to get still long enough to see anything from God?

  Lester Roloff

  Party, Long, People

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• I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you.

  Andre Benjamin

  Father, Kids, Cowboy

  "Rapped up in tweed" by Simon Mills, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2008.

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• It's so nice after 10 years as a blond actress in Hollywood to have people let you do smart things.

  Emily Procter

  Nice, Smart, Years

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• If you've got a huge Hollywood star in your film, they're getting $32 million, and everyone else gets their bus fare.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Stars, Film, Bus

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• In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.

  Ben Hecht

  Names, Thirty, Starlets

  "Colombo's Hollywood: wit and wisdom of the moviemakers". Book by John Robert Colombo, p. 150, 1979.

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• It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.

  Peter Bart

  Years, Tv Shows, Corporations

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