Leonard Slatkin Quotes

I was such a New Yorker, I hardly knew what the Oscars were.

Los Angles is not my favorite city. Well, I shouldn't say that... I love to visit it, on a temporary basis. It's just such a company town! You can't go anywhere and not run into someone who wants to be in the business.

The people in Hollywood are fabulously stupid.

I'm sporting some really blonde hair because I live in Hollywood and I'm an actress.

The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy.

I've found that Hollywood's a really honest business. They don't pull any punches. They tell you exactly what you want-I want the fake breasts and the flat car and the big pool. You know, they're real up-front about it.

Every year you work in Hollywood takes a year off your soul.

When you're dealing with Hollywood people, it creates a tight, tense atmosphere through the whole thing. And I don't like to work in that kind of atmosphere. I like to make my movies in a kind of relaxed atmosphere.

Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn.

He's easily the most well-adjusted former child star in the room, please welcome... Jason Bateman.

It’s such a floating freak show. You get a bit older and you start to see what’s going on backstage in the collective psyche of this ridiculous industry. … Nothing pleases me more than when somebody who was awe-inspired to be working with me realizes I’m just another schmuck that they’re bored of hanging out with on a set. I love that moment. I like it when that persistent illusion is smashed.

The Hollywood tradition I like best is called sucking up to the stars.

Here's how you get Hollywood in Positano: You need a nail salon and a yogurt place.

So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.

If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?

Like the tectonic plate it sits upon, Hollywood is subject to seismic jolts and constant tremors. Each season erupts with a new champion, and every so often a genuine earthquake will tear down the apparently secure infrastructure.

I don't much care for Hollywood, I'd rather have a nice cup of cocoa.

So I live in Los Angeles, and it's kind of a goofy place. They have an airport named after John Wayne. That ought to explain it. It has a charming kind of superstitious innocence.

no one ever really leaves Hollywood. No one really leaves unless they are called away by God. Even then, the impulse would be to come back again and make a movie about the experience.

Some of my favorite movies are Hollywood movies. Hollywood is part of the cinematic spectrum. I nurture a healthy love-hate relationship with Hollywood.

Hollywood is a goofy place. But I like it.... If one weren't a little mad one wouldn't be there.

Los Angeles is Hollywood and Hollywood is Hollywood Blvd. It's the first thing you want to see. It's the only thing really that you know about as far as Los Angeles is concerned. And so you go and you look at Joan Crawford's hands and feet and the whole history of American filmmaking is encapsulated in that one little area on that one street. That street, to me, has always been the street of dream.

If it wasn't so pointless and ridiculous, it would be more humiliating. Also, if there [Hollywood] weren't so many people as bad as myself - equally untalented people - it would be even more humiliating.

Have you ever taken a sober look at any of the mutants who run these Hollywood-gossip sites? What a crew! None of them could ever, ever be stars, which is why they're always trying to "take the piss" from those they envy.

Stage actors look down on movie actors, movie actors look down on TV actors, and TV actors look down on... mass murderers.