I don’t have a desire to make films that have cardboard cut-out or Hollywood stand-in replicas of humans. I need the real deal. – Lynn Shelton
I wanted to take on my full name, which was sort of a crazy thing to do considering that we’re in Hollywood. – Mahershala Ali
The Hollywood model is to develop scripts for 10 years, sell them, transfer them, attach this actor, then attach a director. This isn’t what I’m about. I’m much more of a creator and a doer. – Mike Birbiglia
I love biographies. I’m especially into stuff about Hollywood in the ’40s and ’50s. I find it fascinating and terrifying. – Katie Findlay
Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it. – Joyce DeWitt
That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else – I always stiffen. It’s an assumed familiarity. It’s phony. – Jennifer Tilly
I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer. – Jamie Farr
Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world. – Lionel Barrymore
I think I have been stereotyped as an action director in Hollywood, so all I got were the action scripts. – John Woo
Hollywood is the most superficial thing you could possibly be a part of and if I weren’t attractive I wouldn’t be working at all. – Megan Fox
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity. – Lauren Bacall