Troian Bellisario Quotes

Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.

I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again.

I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.

Los Angeles is a one-horse town. It's entirely driven by the entertainment business and that's what it is.

It's changing a bit, but the thing in LA is everyone is either in the industry, or knows someone who is in the industry. So, they don't let on that they recognize you, that's what I've found out.

Australians aren't really that crazy; in L.A. you get a little crazier. From my experience at least, Aussies don't really care that much about celebrities or things like that.

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.

I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

Nowadays, kids... young actors... they go straight to L.A. before they've even done anything.

If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.

When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.

I don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all.

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

If you can find it in you to love how stupid the entertainment industry is, you can have a great career.

I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.

Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with Paris Hilton when I was three. That's what L.A. is, though - it's an industry town. You go to school with kids and you think, 'Well that's normal, they make movies.'

Hollywood is always about Hollywood.

I was obsessed with award shows and made charts and graphs and stuff when I was 7 years old. I found the entertainment business hilarious, ridiculous, and alluring - and my parents supported it, for better or worse.