Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.
Hollywood's full of transients. Everybody comes from somewhere else.
Simplicity - that's what I want. It's been a rare commodity for me for a number of years, but I enjoy being able to hang out with my girl, read the newspaper, and sit back and start to read a book by someone I admire, like Lawrence Krauss or Christopher Hitchens. And that's it - simplicity, where the game of Hollywood doesn't exist.
True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.
After Hollywood, you know if people are interested in you or in the fact that you've been in a movie. You know who your real friends are.
I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the '40s and '50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. That was fascinating to me growing up.
One of the major issues that's constantly batted around Hollywood and the media is my industry's responsibility toward the portrayal of violence. There's the irony of the films that glorify it and the individuals taking positions against it. It's a very confusing, confounding place.
It's not like they just open the gate to Hollywood and off you go - you earn your stripes. I worked ferociously hard even just to get an agent.
Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle.
You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.
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.
Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.
It's so nice after 10 years as a blond actress in Hollywood to have people let you do smart things.
The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
My parents were disappointed I didn't finish college, and they were really upset when I went to Hollywood to become an actor. I was a big disappointment to them.
If you go back all the way to the 1920s, filmmakers in Hollywood changed the identity of villains from German to Russian.
So many Hollywood actresses become successful and then just keep on going - they miss out on having a partner and a baby and end up lonely.
I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.
Hollywood has always been crazy. It's controlled anarchy. But how can you loathe something that has given you so much?
I still don't consider myself as going Hollywood. I did a movie because the opportunity presented itself and it was fun. When everything stops being fun, I'll go onto something else.
My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.
Everything you have ever heard about the strangeness of Hollywood is true!
And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.
The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.
It's nice when you're working in Hollywood and there's a movie you'd like to see that no one is making anymore. You make it yourself.
Hollywood, it has treated me so nicely, I am ready to faint! As soon as I see Hollywood, I love it.
I have so many good offers in my country or, let's say, in Europe. I just wait for the best offers, like I always did. And if this can be in Hollywood, why not?
Everyone has to pay their child support, and no matter if you're a Hollywood actor or anyone else, it's always a little bit more than you want to pay.
I am so stereotyped into being this Hollywood girl.
I've learned there is a void in adult stories across the land. Hollywood, whatever that is anymore, is losing their ability to tell those stories because they're not even thinking of that audience.
My focus isn't Hollywood; my focus is using Hollywood as an example. Because what happens here does happen everywhere. It's just a really concentrated and tense version here.
I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.
I've always wanted to be like the Hollywood Golden Age actors.
Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.
It seems the farther away we are from Hollywood, the better the ratings.
In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.
