David Jason Quotes

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

I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there.

Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.

I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago.

I'm not the Hollywood type. I'm not going to pack up my bags and let me move to Hollywood and stuff like that.

For actors in Hollywood, it's very straightforward. We're well-paid animals in a zoo.

To even be a working entertainer in Hollywood is such a rare privilege.

I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business.

The whole idea of doing the Hollywood thing never even occurred to me. When you grow up on the East coast, Hollywood seems like this fantasy land and you don't think that people can actually make a living there.

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.

In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined.

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

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

I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit.

Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood.

I wasn't one of those kids who was chasing the dream and wanted to get to Hollywood because one day I was gonna get my chance and be a big star. I never felt like that.

I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals.

Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.

Hollywood's full of transients. Everybody comes from somewhere else.

Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.

I probably wouldn't be acting if I didn't grow up in Hollywood.

My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.

Three years is a lifetime in Hollywood. If your career starts slipping in L.A., you can really feel it. All of a sudden, the people that you were beating for a part start beating you.