Alden Ehrenreich Quotes

My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.

When I was younger, I looked to actors like they were from another planet. You couldn't believe you could be anywhere near that world. It was exciting. I kind of like that.

Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.

I always knew I was going to be successful in some way with films. I don't know why. I had no particular talent, but I always knew I was going to be sitting in a dining room with Lucille Ball and at a cocktail party with Bette Davis.

I always loved movies. I wanted to be in them! I always saw them and said, 'How do you do that?' It seemed like going to the moon. It was not a rational thought, but that's the only thing I wanted to do.

I don't work for Hollywood.

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 work with a lot of movie stars.

My impression was, 'This Hollywood thing doesn't seem too hard.'

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!

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.

Hollywood is my day job.

I never did love Hollywood, I just loved the work.

Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice.

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

Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.

For me, growing up in Indiana with cornfields and churches, I was always very intrigued by the Academy Awards - they were a big event. That was the one night of the year when all of the glittering movie stars got together, and I used to love that night because, as a child, it was a way to dream for me.

Hollywood is a pretty edgy place.

I watched movies, obviously, just like anybody else, but there was nothing to make me think, 'I'm going to go to L.A. and become a movie star,' or anything like that.

Films make stars and stars never make films.

Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

I don't own Hollywood.

When one deals with stars, he is dealing with intelligent people. If they weren't intelligent, they wouldn't have arrived at the star pinnacle.