John Krasinski Quotes

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

When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.

I know, for myself, I have a very distinct style, and I know what I like, and I know what I don't like. But it has been a process of learning how to cater to the different events that happen with Hollywood and how you might want to dress for red carpet and what things photograph well.

The Golden Globes are fun. The Oscars are Business.

Hollywood has nothing to do with real life.

Hollywood, how can it hurt you when it looks so good?

It's like prom night for Hollywood. I'm really proud of myself for being here.

I think Hollywood has always, you know, there's always been glamour associated to it. And especially in the last ten years there has been a growing sort of obsession with celebrity life and celebrity culture.

I don't really miss the Hollywood lifestyle.

For some actors, to let go of the glam look isn't easy.

I'm always caught up in the thrill of award season: The golden statues, the glamorous stars, and the fabulous gowns.

L.A. may be easy for the beautiful because it's the land of the beautiful.

It's a real honor to have my stories up on the big silver screen, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. It's great fun flying out to L.A. for premieres and meeting all the actors and directors.

I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug.

I always felt that Hollywood has a way of making you feel outside.

The biggest mistake I ever made was snorting cocaine. The second biggest mistake was I didn't realize that show business was two words.

The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry.

Hollywood is wonderful. Anyone who doesn't like it is either crazy or sober.

The one thing I have found about Hollywood is it's a town full of people who believe in themselves, often to a degree where they're what you would call "delusional."

It's a chain of accidents. When you step into Hollywood, you wind yourself into thousands of chains of accidents. If all of the thousands happen to come out exactly right-and the chance of that figures out to be one in eight million-then you'll be a star.

It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me as a kid. I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win.

You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a dozen men have ever been able to keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads.

The Academy Awards are passed out on Sunday. It's voted by members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Or as I call them, 50 shades of white.

Hollywood is all about making an entrance. I don't want to be a walking advertisement for anyone other than myself.

I've never been to a Hollywood party, although I imagine that it might be fun.