Hollywood Quotes

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."

"Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents."

"You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer."

"I have been asked if I ever get the DTs; I don't know; it's hard to tell where Hollywood ends and the DTs begin."

"There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin."

"Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney."

"The pendulum in Hollywood is coming back to story-telling."

"[LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Riding the success of his star turn in] The 40-Year-Old Virgin, ... Dan in Real Life."

"I worked over the last year and a half with a Hollywood screenwriter named Mark Shepherd. He developed a screenplay out of the story. It's incredible; I hope that it can be made into a movie soon. Our agency is shopping it around Hollywood. I think it's going to be an incredibly powerful film. It starts with one part, and then we have plans for a sequel as well."

"Adam-12, the series in which I appear, is shot on various locations around North Hollywood."

"I 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."

"The last thing I want to turn into is a fat Hollywood jerk. I was brought up without much money and I was happy. I don't think that I will strive for money or success and end up greedy or big-headed. That only leads to unhappiness. I can still be dow"

"If I were pitching it in Hollywood, ... I'd say it's 'The Out-of-Towners' with a brain transplant."

"The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism."

"That was the message that was heard loud and clear by Hollywood. Why not get everyone if you can? There's great value in having a picture that can appeal to everyone."

"It seems the farther away we are from Hollywood, the better the ratings."

"All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn't understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting."

"Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be."

"We spent about a year negotiating with Hollywood. Wound up negotiating real seriously with three studios -- a big one, a medium one and a small one. Every one of them came down to the same thing, control,"

"Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism."