Hollywood Quotes - Page 35

• Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.

  Richard Linklater

  World, Way, Talent

  ""You can't hold back the human spirit"". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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• I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.

  Richard Linklater

  Guy, Toes

  Interview with Michael Koresky, Jeff Reichert, reverseshot.org. July 2, 2004.

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• If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.

  Anita Loos

  Ifs

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• I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.

  Eddie Bracken

  Awful, Trouble

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• I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

  Gavin Bryars

  Technology, Europe, Cds

  Klassiknet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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• I was truly thrilled when Alex-Zsolt played for my tribute concert titled, 'A Tribute to Richard M. Sherman.'  This special concert event was held at Disney's Historic El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, CA.   Alex was great and he played my songs very musically and in supercalifragilisticexpialidocious style!

  Richard M. Sherman

  Song, Style, Theatre

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• At times I think I actually hate Hollywood. I have many acquaintances there, but few friends.

  Grace Kelly

  Hate, Thinking, Few Friends

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

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• I was minding my own business, really, and then all of a sudden, Hollywood approached me.

  Kelly Brook

  Minding My Own Business, My Own, Own Business

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• Johnny Rivers...returned to L.A. to accept a lucrative offer from Elmer Valentine to open at his lavish new nightclub based upon the popular European discotheque concept. Johnny Rivers at the Whisky A Go-Go turned Hollywood upside down. His first Imperial album, "Johnny Rivers At The Whisky A Go-Go," (produced by Lou Adler) was high in the charts for 45 weeks in 1964.

  Glenn A. Baker

  Valentine, Rivers, Albums

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• He wanted us to play whatever we played in the most characteristic and appropriate style. Even it was the theme from 'The Godfather,' you needed to play that then the way that a Hollywood producer would expect it to be played. Whether it was that or the posthorn solo from Mahler's Symphony No. 3, he would expect that to be played in the way that Leonard Bernstein wanted to hear it. In retrospect, I think it was a sensational way to teach this particular group of students. By the time you graduated you could absolutely read anything with any trumpet.

  Manny Laureano

  Thinking, Play, Symphony

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• To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.

  George Orwell

  Freedom, Gun, Hollywood Films

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.218, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

  Jerry Della Femina

  Winning, Dying, Oscars

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• My mom blames California for me being a lesbian. Everything was fine until you moved out there. That's right, Mom, we have mandatory lesbianism in West Hollywood. The Gay Patrol busted me, and I was given seven business days to add a significant amount of flannel to my wardrobe.

  Coley Sohn

  Mom, Gay, California

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• Will there be titty? Sure. Boom! I'm a producer. Where you been all our life, boy? We been lookin for you in Hollywood.

  Bill Hicks

  Boys, Producers, Our Lives

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• Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs.

  Gregory Harrison

  Song, Trying, Honest

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• I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

  Patrick Stewart

  Good Luck, Roles, Television

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• I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move there. It's very much an industry town and that doesn't really interest me.

  Juliette Binoche

  Moving, Journey, Towns

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• My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspirational, Boston, Citizens

  "R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015)" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. February 27, 2015.

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• Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer.

  Kent McCord

  Children, Real, Home

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• Tonight we celebrate Hollywood's best and whitest, sorry... brightest.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Sorry, Tonight, Oscars

  "Oscars 2015: Best & Worst Political Moments" by Allan MacDonell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 22, 2015.

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• It's actually great to shoot far away from Hollywood because we don't have the distractions of the parties and premieres and all that. And, of course, you can save money - there are no good shoe stores.

  Katie Holmes

  Party, Shoes, Madness

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• It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.

  William Wyler

  Morning, Fog, Six

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

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• Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.

  Jane Fonda

  Giving, Doe, Fields

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

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• The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.

  Seth Godin

  Life, Work, Lunch

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• I've always loved the pomp and circumstance of dressing up; the pagenatry and all of the glamour of Hollywood.

  Halle Berry

  Fashion, Dressing Up, Glamour

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