John Dunne Quotes

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

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.

I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move there. It's very much an industry town and that doesn't really interest me.

When I was 23, I went to work for Jack Nicholson reading scripts. Later, I was married to a production designer named Richard Sylbert. So I lived in Los Angeles for ten years.

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

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

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 have a theory that most people in Hollywood are from Texas.

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

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

My own aunt was Merle Oberon, so movie stardom was not a faraway mystery to me as a child: it was part of the family business.

I left Canada to come to Hollywood to make movies.

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.

You throw a rock in Hollywood and you're going to hit someone in the film industry.

I don't know what they call Hollywood anymore. The whole meaning of the town has changed.

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.

So, I completely and utterly support David and Gillian's decision to go to Los Angeles, but I think that Vancouver is the perfect location for the show.

Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.

I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.

I began my career in Los Angeles and started working fairly quickly.

In L.A. everyone is in the entertainment industry, so you're forced to think about work.

I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

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

Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.

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