A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
William Makepeace ThackerayYou know, when you don’t go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly ‚in the know,‘ start whispering that you’re gay. If I were gay, I wouldn’t be ashamed to admit it, but I’m not.
Adam SandlerI will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I’m not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy.
Clint EastwoodHollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.
Kevin HartI came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.
Kevin HartI was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
Neil ArmstrongIt’s nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren’t the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with.
Jim CarreyIt cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational – and I’m speaking the written science fiction, not ‚Star Trek.‘ Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they’re clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.
Terry PratchettI have a big box of autographs. I took photographs of me and Marlene Dietrich, me and Ida Lupino. I took pictures of Myrna Loy and Joel McCrea in front of the studios. I loved Hollywood. I have 500 autographs and 500 photographs I took.
Ray BradburyI think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.
Denzel WashingtonIn Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hairdo.
Marilyn MonroeAnimation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
Walt DisneyI started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.
Walt DisneyMeryl Streep is exactly as awesome as you would imagine Meryl Streep to be.
Michelle ObamaHollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.
Dr. SeussI want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star – I am an actor, too.
Jackie ChanNo, I can’t do rap music!
Dolly PartonI’m not Russell Crowe. I’m not going to do a period piece.
Kevin HartAnimation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon’s unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
Walt DisneyWhat’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerMickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
Walt DisneyI’m not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don’t like L.A., but I’m just a Northern California guy.
Clint EastwoodI say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.
Dolly PartonMichelle Pfeiffer hasn’t been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn’t like what a woman her age is offered. That’s a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn’t work the other way around.
Denzel WashingtonIn Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.
Will RogersYou want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.
Keanu ReevesI will not play just an evil part. In fact, I got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part that Faye Dunaway played in ‚Supergirl.‘ I was kind of insulted. I was impressed with the money, but I said, ‚Why are you asking me to play an evil witch? Do I come across as an evil witch to you?‘
Dolly PartonIf a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.
Marilyn MonroeWhen you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.
Kevin HartI don’t think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that’s what counts.
Angelina JolieI’d done a lot of research in Hollywood and in academia. I love research and so I wanted to kind of ground the book in history, in things that I read that were universal and timeless and then kind of let my own experiences sort of filter through all of this history.
Robert GreeneI leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.
Taylor SwiftThe dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples‘ attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.
Brian EnoI never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.
Dwayne JohnsonIn the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me ‚Jackie Who?‘.
Jackie ChanI 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 MonroeI think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there’s always a question of taste.
Keanu ReevesI went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.
Jackie ChanI’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.
Dwayne JohnsonThe most propagandistic element of ‚Frozen‘ was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending.
Jordan PetersonI really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.
Jackie ChanIn Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time.
Dwayne JohnsonLater on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.
Elvis PresleyI seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.
Angelina JoliePlagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.
Clint EastwoodAn actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
Marilyn MonroeI don’t know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can’t stand to be invited someplace that isn’t full of other important people. They don’t mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.
Marilyn MonroeFunk, I don’t think I have anything to do with funk. I’ve never considered myself funky.
David BowieI had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.
Clint EastwoodIt was 1996 and I was at a crossroads in my career. I had been working in Hollywood as a writer and was very unhappy. I had pitched an idea for a book some six months earlier, and the book packager, Joost Elffers, wanted me to write up a treatment for it.
Robert GreeneWhen I was a kid, I loved Elvis, and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. But I had no connection to Hollywood – and being a movie star was such a far-fetched idea, growing up in Hawaii.
Dwayne JohnsonI don’t want to make niche-oriented music.
Lady GagaThat our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.
Abraham LincolnI think the whole stigma of ‚black movies‘ is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like ’12 Years A Slave,‘ to ‚The Butler,‘ to ‚The Best Man,‘ to ‚Ride Along,‘ to even ‚Think Like a Man‘ from last year – these movies are just good movies.
Kevin HartWe have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
Walt DisneyThere is good and mediocre writing within every genre.
Margaret AtwoodHollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
Marilyn MonroeAnimation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
Walt DisneySo there’s nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who’s cool hates – and then making it cool.
Lady Gaga