#hollywood

Junior writers $300; Minor poets—$500 a week; Broken novelists—$850-1000; One play dramatists—$1500; Sucks—$2000. Wits—$2500. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#love

No one likes to be typecast or stereotyped, especially actors. But who would know Esther Williams without a swimming pool, Bela Lugosi without a cape, or Elvis Presley without his guitar. Would we even care? ↗

— Susan Marg

#movies #quotes #stereotype #movies

It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind. ↗

— Naveen Andrews

#casting #color #directors #easy #films

I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it. ↗

— Christopher Atkins

#hollywood #i #made #movie #vampire

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars. ↗

— Fred Allen

#hollywood #iowa #mistake #other #people

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#each #equitable #fifty #fifty percent #getting

Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I'd say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood. ↗

— Amitabh Bachchan

#action #because #bit #comedy #dance

I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood. ↗

— Ned Beatty

#bless #god #god bless #hollywood #i

In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#hollywood #instantly #mom #osteoporosis #play

Maybe we should have known that night in Denver that things that begin with plywood Greek columns and artificial smoke typically don't end well. Maybe the Hollywood stars and the glamour blinded us a little: you thought it was the glare, some of us thought it was a halo. ↗

— Artur Davis

#begin #blinded #columns #denver #end