Sean Combs Quotes

Now I love LA, but there are a lot of weird aspects to Hollywood.

I still giggle when someone asks for my address and I say, 'Hollywood, Los Angeles.'

I'm from Los Angeles, and growing up here, I've always been enamored by Hollywood and the industry. It's just something I grew up with, and I loved it.

Tinseltown is eerily silent when The Oscars, The Emmys and The Grammys, The Sag Awards, and The Golden Globes aren't in full swing.

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

I work with a lot of movie stars.

You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.

I never took to Hollywood.

Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.

Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours.

I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.

Oscar night is a ridiculous night where you go to these parties and you see everyone that you've ever wanted to work with and admire.

And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.

I don't want to go to Hollywood.

The criteria, for me, is movie star. It's Hollywood. Not Somalia.

I'm not interested in stories about movie stars. I couldn't care less what Steve Martin has on his mind.

Entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me.

I have friends who are movie stars, and I think it's just as hard a job as being a working actor. But it's a different job, and it's not the one I want.

When we first went to L.A., Howard Koch, who was the head of Paramount Pictures and later President of the Oscars, threw a welcome lunch for us at his house. There were all these stars there - Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Lucille Ball, Natalie Wood, Henry Mancini.

Some people go to L.A. just to see recognizable people. There are tour buses. But in New York, everyone seems a little less into that.

If you really want to understand Hollywood, you have to live in it.

I mean, the Lakers are pretty damn Hollywood.

Practically everyone in Hollywood has a neighbor who's been famous, wants to be famous, is famous, has been married to someone famous, worked with someone famous, slept with someone famous, been blackmailed by someone famous.