Carrie Coon Quotes

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

I didn't grow up as child actor.

I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.

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.

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

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 don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.

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

I think Hollywood is interesting. As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.

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

I didn't want to chase movies. It's too hard. You've got to work at it - opening nights, photo shoots, publicity people, managers. I never wanted to do that. I'm too lazy.

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!

The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.

But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor.

I never went to any of the Hollywood child parties.

I'd always dreamt of acting but, in Adelaide, we don't have exposure to the opportunities that make stardom a possibility.

Nowadays, kids... young actors... they go straight to L.A. before they've even done anything.

If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.

So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.

I don't think about Hollywood at all.

People tell me that Hollywood loves new faces, but I don't know. They're probably just being nice.

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.