Quotes about Hollywood

Hollywood is a very volatile place where artists come in, and they essentially say they want to belong. It's incredibly vulnerable to be an actor and also get criticism at a young age when you're formulating who you are. We've seen a lot of people fall victim to that, and it's very unfortunate.

When you get to Hollywood, it takes you out of your life. It makes you feel cool when you think about all the great things to come out of this town.

I never knew until I came here to Hollywood that somebody could be really nice to you for years and really hate your guts. Happens all the time here.

This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. Then I would maybe have a chance to come to Hollywood.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has been offered a role in a sequel to 'The Terminator.' In this one he travels back in time and kills the person who suggested he run for governor.

I look to women who epitomize old Hollywood glamour, like Rita Hayworth.

'Hollywood maids' are so idiotic. They grin at everything. I told Norman Lear I didn't want to play a maid because of that 'hee-hee/grin-grin' attitude, and he said, 'Who said I wanted that?' He told me he wanted two strong women that are the black and white of the same coin. I said, 'Oh, well - in that case, I'll be right there!'

In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

Isn't Hollywood a dump — in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It

Some of the top grossing movies now are children's animated features, they're making more money than action movies. And you'd never find a Hollywood A-lister years ago doing voice-overs for those films and they do now. You know why? Because everybody's got a price.

All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.