Hollywood Quotes - Page 22

• As soon as somebody comes out for a politician, especially in Hollywood, when they all go, 'I'm voting for this guy!' – I go, 'That's not who I'm voting for!'

  Kid Rock

  Guy, Voting, Politician

  "Kid Rock Jams Out For Mitt Romney" by Amy Bingham, abcnews.go.com. February 28, 2012.

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• Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it's like those myths were exported to Hollywood, leaving Europe the room to develop a new tradition as a way of processing its traumas, particularly the two world wars.

  Mark Gatiss

  War, Home, Europe

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• It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions.

  Alana Stewart

  Gun, People, Want

  "Alana Stewart: Hollywood honchos 'hypocritical' when it comes to guns". Interview with Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. January 30, 2013.

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• I'm tired of playing little girls. I'm a woman now. I can't run around forever being the Little Miss Fix It who bursts into song. I want to get out of Hollywood and get a fresh approach.

  Deanna Durbin

  Girl, Running, Song

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• The problem with Hollywood is that nobody works. They have meals. They go to Pilates. But it's not enough. So they do drugs. If everybody had a pile of rocks in their backyard and spent every day moving them from one side of the yard to the other, it would be a much happier place.

  Ryan Gosling

  Moving, Rocks, Drug

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• Everyone has a warped vision of Hollywood and what success in Hollywood is like.

  Zach Braff

  Vision

  "I've won the indie film lottery" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2004.

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• The Japanese couldn't have been all bad during World War II. Look at all the movies Hollywood was able to make on account of them. The Indians weren't the only bad guys. Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire.

  Pat Morita

  War, History, Guy

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• Astonishing times. Who would have imagined that the Crazy Gang would yield a Hollywood film star (Vinny Jones), a British television ever-present (John Fashanu) and now a televised African dance champion?

  Giles Smith

  Soccer, Football, Stars

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• You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

  Gabrielle

  Losing, Helping, Fear Of Failure

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• Hollywood's martyr-mythology leaves out the fact that the famed Hollywood Ten, for example, were in fact members of the Communist Party, which advocated the violent overthrow of the U.S. government in violation of the Smith Act and which took orders directly from Moscow.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Party, Government, Order

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• Hollywood's schizophrenia over guns is matched only by their attitude toward taxes. Ever wonder why they film in Vancouver so often? It ain't for the beaches, I can tell you.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Beach, Attitude, Gun

  Greg Gutfeld (2014). “Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You”, p.178, Crown Forum

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• You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or lamenting vindictive excesses in sentencing. Hollywood, supposedly a frothing cauldron of liberalism, has always been conservative on crime.

  Tom Shales

  Book, Law, Excess

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• What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is, while the creative community admittedly leans left, Hollywood has become a corporate town.

  Steven Levitan

  Creative, Community, Trying

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

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• At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia...

  Philip Zimbardo

  School, Mafia, Tables

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of winter here.

  Diablo Cody

  Winter, Television, Harbinger

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• Well, I wasnt just kind of standing in a queue at McDonalds and someone sat down and said, Youre the director of a $100 million Hollywood movie. Ive been working in commercials for ten years.

  Rupert Sanders

  Mcdonalds, Years, Directors

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• The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I never did see a meager Hollywood caper called Youngblood Hawke, vaguely based on my 800-page novel. So it was that I opted for television, with its much broader time limits, for The Winds of War.

  Herman Wouk

  War, Wind, Mutiny

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• Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

  Mike Royko

  Likes, Boast, Conscience

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• Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

  Mike Royko

  Strong, Powerful, Impact

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• Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

  David Mamet

  Eagles, Ideas, Mitzvah

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• No one has a closest friend in Hollywood.

  Sheilah Graham Westbrook

  Closest Friends, Closest

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

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• L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Different, Might, Bigs

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• You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Stars, Rocks, People

  Interview with David Curcurito, www.esquire.com. April 17, 2012.

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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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