The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend. — Katharine Hepburn
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars. — Fred A. Allen
Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality — Grace Kelly
Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained orgy farm, its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can find. — Veronica Lake
You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors. — Owen Wilson
Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments. — Will Rogers
There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen. — Bette Davis
Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world. — Lionel Barrymore
Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs. — Fred A. Allen
Hollywood is controlled by homosexual Jewish men who expect favors in return for sexual activity. — John Travolta
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. — W. Somerset Maugham
The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true. — Hedy Lamarr
Hollywood is in control of politics and has imported their action-filled movie scripts into the real world. — Kim Dotcom
I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star. — Richard Pryor
Short Hollywood Stars Quotes
That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood. — Warren Beatty
Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle. — Shirley Temple
Stardom is like making love in a hammock - a happy experience but one of uncertain duration. — David Niven
I'm a curiosity in Hollywood. I'm a big freak, because I'm myself! — Clara Bow
I'm not really a fan of, like, rock stars, movie stars, people like that. I like politics. — Alex Jones
In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet. — Will Smith
At times I think I actually hate Hollywood. I have many acquaintances there, but few friends. — Grace Kelly
Surely the stars are images of love. — Philip James Bailey
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. — Rita Rudner
We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle. — Marilyn Monroe
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
Old Hollywood Stars Quotes
I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star. — Anna May Wong
Sometimes when you get old, you get a star on Hollywood Boulevard. — Jane Wiedlin
To be honest, I miss the old Hollywood way of having some mystique about the star. — Nicole Scherzinger
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - Ill devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is Sunset Boulevard starring Gloria Swanson. — Amanda Donohoe
My favourite actors are all dead or dying. I just love Jimmy Stewart, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn - I was named after her - and Cary Grant. I just love old black and white movies and the stars in them. It must have been a great time to be in Hollywood. — Sayings
A cigarette in the hands of a Hollywood star onscreen is a gun aimed at a 12- or 14-year-old. — Joe Eszterhas
When it rains, look for rainbows. When it's dark, look for stars.
A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard. — Aaron Eckhart
Watching Stars Quotes
You are the stars and the world is watching you. By your presence, you send a message to every village, every city, every nation. A message of hope. A message of victory. — Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. — Marcus Aurelius
Perhaps these ancient observatories like Stonehenge perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars move. We are too busy watching evening television to care what's going on in the sky. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars. — Neil Gaiman
I remember being a teenager and watching 40-year-old Michael Jordan compete in his final All-Star game. — Kawhi Leonard
Just as the water reflects the stars and the moon, the body reflects the mind and soul.
In the godforsaken, obscene quicksand of life, there is a deafening alleluia rising from the souls of those who weep, and of those who weep with those who weep. If you watch, you will see The hand of God putting the stars back in their skies one by one. — Ann Weems
Watch the sunrise at least once a year, put a lot of marshmallows in your hot chocolate, lie on your back and look at the stars, never buy a coffee table you can't put your feet on, never pass up a chance to jump on a trampoline, don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasure of life. I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in moonlit sky or soaking in the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning. — Robin Sharma
How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die. — Thomas Cole
Hollywood Quotes
There is no question in my mind that Zionists, these Jewish radicals that they dominate Hollywood, nobody argues about the show you in the Los Angeles Times article by Joel Stein bragging about it. — David Duke
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. — Clark Gable
Too many so-called leaders of the movement have been made into celebrities and their revolutionary fervor destroyed by mass media. They become Hollywood objects and lose identification with the real issues. The task is to transform society; only the people can do that — Huey Newton
I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character. — Gene Wilder
Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking. — Robert Duvall
Don't forget I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her. — Julia Roberts
Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.
I think Hollywood, I think America in general, they love redemption stories. — Logan Paul
If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart. — George A. Romero
Hollywood Life Quotes
Come on, guys, I am a computer nerd. I love Hollywood and movies. My whole life is like a movie. — Kim Dotcom
Great men are not born great, they grow great . . . — Mario Puzo
This is a terrible place to spend your life in. Nobody in Hollywood is normal. Absolutely nobody. And they have such a vicious attitude toward one another. They say much worse things about each other than outsiders say about them, and nobody has any real friends. — Gary Cooper
When it rains look for rainbows, when it's dark look for stars.
The idea of being able to go into Studio 54 alone is what thrilled me the most: again, a man’s life in a woman’s body. — Diane Von Furstenberg
Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it's a wonderful business but it's make-believe, you must remember that. That's one of the most important things to remember and the distinction in your own life, otherwise people get lost in their own fame, and it makes them unhappy. — Dolph Lundgren
I thought it was a cool parallel. Being replaced by the young thing. I know that definitely happens in Hollywood. It's harder to find good roles, and suddenly there's new girls. I'm at that age I've been warned my whole life about. — Winona Ryder
Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.
I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is. — Francesca Annis
I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy. — Jennifer Connelly
My life is a series of Hollywood orgies and Kabbalah center brunches with the cast of Friends. At least that's what my handlers tell me. I'm actually too valuable to live my own life and spend most of my days in a vegetable crisper to remain fake news anchor fresh. — Jon Stewart
Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment. — Joan Crawford
Hollywood Actresses Quotes
I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses. — Anthony Michael Hall
Suddenly you're the mom, or you go from ... You're not an ingénue, you don't want to play an ingénue, but it's like that line in The First Wives Club [1996]: "There are only three ages for women in Hollywood: babe, district attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy." — Winona Ryder
This is hilarious. First, people say how so many actresses in Hollywood look anorexic, and now they are criticizing me for looking normal. Body images are too often adopted by young girls and women - thanks to what they are constantly being shown as being attractive. — Jennifer Lawrence
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department. — Ann Sothern
Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request. — Bette Davis
Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin. — Madonna Ciccone
Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars.
In Hollywood, I'm obese. I'm considered a fat actress. I eat like a caveman. I'll be the only actress that doesn't have anorexia rumors! I'm never going to starve myself for a part. I'm invincible. I don't want little girls to be like "Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I'm going to skip dinner!" — Jennifer Lawrence
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
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
When you come from an environment that's military, and they don't stress that topic of aesthetics or beauty pageants and makeup, there are a lot of things you just don't have that city girls have. Or the country girl who goes to movies and dreams of going to Hollywood as an actress. — Pam Grier
Hollywood Movies Quotes
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
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
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse. — Marlon Brando
I prefer to do movies, just for the simple fact that in TV, there’s not much of a guarantee. They can pull the plug on you. — Vivica Fox
They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom! — Mel Gibson
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense. — Ethan Coen
Films are getting expensive by the day. They are making more money by the day. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
I am a big movie buff. So, I make sure I watch two-three movies a week, not many because I don’t want to get addicted. — Smriti Mandhana
Providing 'freemium' cloud storage to society is not a crime. What will Hollywood do when smartphones and tablets can wirelessly transfer a movie file within milliseconds? — Kim Dotcom
Hollywood Films Quotes
I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries. — Leonard Maltin
I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated. — Barbara Hershey
The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems. — Stan Brakhage
Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do. — Anthony Anderson
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. — Mario Puzo
The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film. — Rainer W. Fassbinder
The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah. — David Mamet
Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry? — John Ford
Hollywood Glamour Quotes
I look to the women who epitomize old Hollywood glamour, like Rita Hayworth. She had a way of making sophisticated clothes look sexy without ever seeming sleazy or cheap. — Jennifer Lopez
[On Hollywood:] I had gone there expecting to see parties that reflected the stock-in-trade of the movies - glamour. Instead, I found the same attitude toward parties that European peasants had for baths. It was something to be done methodically every Saturday night. — Elsa Maxwell
Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people who make movies have such glamour associated with them. But the truth is, it's not like that. It's very different. It's hard work. — John Carpenter
I love regal looks on the Oscars red carpet. I just love old-Hollywood glamour. I love hair pulled back off the face, beautiful makeup...long sleeves are really elegant. The Oscars are not a place to be too flirty or fun or sexy. — Giuliana Rancic
Hollywood style means classic glamour. My reference is the 1940s through the 1960s. — Kelly Wearstler
Glamour's my thing. The glamour is what got me into this business in the first place. I lived in a fantasy world in order to survive. Now that I'm here, I plan to work it. That means playing the part--long, tight dresses, slick! Unless you rise to the occasion, Hollywood doesn't really exist. — Theresa Randle
I think Hollywood is more of a state of mind then a place. There are certainly iconic locations in L.A. but as far as the glitz and glamour of old Hollywood and the studio system, that's all but faded away. — Nicholas Ozeki
This is true Hollywood glamour! I am taking personal jewels from a screen legend and creating a one-of-a-kind pair of shoes,which will be worn by a movie star of today. — Stuart Weitzman
I am strong-willed, which can be annoying sometimes. And from that I think people assume I have confidence and Hollywood glamour and all that stuff, when actually, in my personal life, sometimes I'm just a goofball. — Sayings
I'm a big fan of glamour. It's something I don't think there's enough of in Hollywood anymore. I enjoy putting on a sexy dress and heels. I want to work it. — Ali Larter
Movie Star Quotes
In my experience, there's no such thing as luck. — George Lucas
I liked how 'Star Wars' felt both old and new. — Akira Toriyama
Get real. You are not the star of the movie. Most of what happens around you isn’t about you at all. There are infinite numbers of other movies. In those, if you feature at all, you’re just a supporting actor. It would really help your happiness if you started to look at your life that way. — Mo Gawdat
Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles. — Faye Dunaway
Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it. — Lukas Foss
You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars. — Wilt Chamberlain
Stop being a supporting player in the movie that is your life. Become the movie star. This is a hero's journey you have embarked upon. It's high time you start acting like it. — Rich Roll
Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid. — Harrison Ford
The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force. — David Prowse
I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years. — David Ogden Stiers
Megaupload is not responsible for the piracy problem. It's the old business model of Hollywood that is responsible for it, and they want to keep that model alive at any cost. — Kim Dotcom
Always be a first-rate version of yourself. — Audrey Hepburn
When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room and gave them popcorn. It was called 'Project Hollywood 2004' and it worked. I moved to L.A. in January of 2004. — Emma Stone
I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. — Mario Puzo
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
There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it. — Ben Stiller
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully. — Julie Burchill
I love watching old movies anyway - I grew up with my mom watching old movies and being immersed in the history of old Hollywood. — Lily Collins
When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change. — Robert Rodriguez
The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard. — Jean Baudrillard
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
I think Hispanic women are beautiful with their curves. I'm not sure who feels that way in Hollywood. I was never told to lose 50 pounds. If they think that they just don't bother with you. You just don't get the role and you never know why. That's still better than physically harming yourself and becoming unhealthy just to star in a movie. — America Ferrera
Reverse-engineer Hollywood is how I think of it. All the social-media stars are going in the back door, and everyone's trying to get in the front - there's a line outside. And then everyone's trying to sneak around back, but then there's security, you know? — Jake Paul
Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can be a Broadway star here one night, and something happens, and out--nobody knows you on the street. They forget you ever lived. It happens in Hollywood, too. — Buster Keaton
Fame doesn't matter. Money doesn't matter. Those things are forever fleeting. I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so that when I'm long gone my great-great-grandchildren can walk up to it and say, "That's my ancestor." That will be my legacy. — Tracy Morgan
It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage. — Doris Day
In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. — Annette Funicello
Ah, stardom! They put your name on a star in the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard and you walk down and find a pile of dog manure on it. That tells the whole story, baby. — Lee Marvin
I feel the need... the need for speed. — Tom Cruise
In the 1940s, cigarettes would be shown in classy situations, endorsed by celebrities - real A-list Hollywood stars in America - the ads would make claims about tobacco quality or manufacturing science and, bizarrely, some brands had what almost amounted to health claims. — Peter York
The action star's life is very short. Back in Asia, I can do whatever I want to do. I'm the producer, I'm the director, I can do so many things, but in Hollywood any time I present a script they say: "No, no, no, Rush Hour 3, Rush Hour 4." — Jackie Chan
Being from New York, there's three things you know about Hollywood. You know about the Hollywood sign, Sunset Strip and Hollywood Boulevard with the stars. — Puff Daddy
A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves. — Jennifer O'Neill
Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things. — Orson Welles
The only reason I wanted to get one [a star on Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame] was because Simon Cowell didn't have one. — Ryan Seacrest
This really blew my mind, the fact that me, an over fed, long haired, leaping gnome, should be the star of a Hollywood movie. — Eric Burdon
Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles. — William Petersen
My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres. — Carol Burnett
I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films. — Laura Dern
I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star. — Arlene Dahl
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
Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. — Liza Minnelli
Broadway producers are happy to have a big Hollywood name they can post on the marquee, but most of them assume that television and film stars really can't handle stage work. Too often, they're right. — Rue McClanahan
I don't want to be a Hollywood star. I just want to do my job and enjoy it. My aim is to find my true identity and to remain true to myself. — Eva Green
It's lovely that the Hollywood stars are crossing over to Broadway.... There used to be such a dividing line in the country between Hollywood and the theatre and that's just melting away. It's just wonderful right now! — Julie Andrews
The whole city gives you the impression of impermanence. You have the feeling that one day someone is going to yell, "Cut! Strike it!" and then the stagehands will scurry out and remove the mountains, the movie-star homes, the Hollywood Bowl--everything. — Allan Sherman
I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star. — Kim Novak
New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money. — Aleksandar Hemon
Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to. — Liza Minnelli
I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced. — Quentin Tarantino
Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle. — Victor Mature
I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so that when I'm long gone my great-great-grandchildren can walk up to it and say, "That's my ancestor." That will be my legacy. — Tracy Morgan
I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest. — Marilyn Monroe
I'm in Hollywood right now, surrounded by nothing but the sons and grandsons of movie stars. — Gore Vidal
The ultimate idea of rags-to-riches success in America is the Hollywood movie star. — Marin Ireland
Hollywood is a place where some people lie on the beach and look up at the stars, whereas other people lie on the stars and look down at the beach. — Noel Coward
A lavish colored evocation of Hollywood now gone, as shown through an afternoon in the milieu of the 1920's film star. — Kenneth Anger
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