Ian Hart Quotes

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

Hollywood is the most superficial thing you could possibly be a part of and if I weren't attractive I wouldn't be working at all.

I don't know what it's like to be an actor, where if your show gets canceled, really you're just a bum.

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

And that might have led to other shows but you know what LA is like. I was in my early 30s and it wasn't going to get easier. You know, that's when you start to wonder if you might have to get lots of plastic surgery.

You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.

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

Do you know how many plastic surgeries are done to the actors and actresses in Hollywood?

There's a certain thought process about actors that they are in Hollywood and they sit around pools and get suntans and just get offered jobs.

I moved to Los Angeles when I was 17. I had just booked 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakwell.' I thought, 'Well, I'm just going to move to L.A. and become famous. 'Squeakwell' is going to launch me to that point.' Well, I didn't end up working for, like, three years afterward. That's kind of the name of the game.

Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.

I was not a child star. I was more like a young auditioner.

When I'm in Los Angeles, sometimes I hesitate saying that I'm an actor because people are like, 'Of course you are.' And I'm like 'No,' not, 'Of course I am.' In L.A., being an actor is like a pastime: everybody there is like, 'I was on this reality show; I'm an actor.' It becomes a word that is loosely thrown around.

I think everyone has different challenges as a young actress in Hollywood.

When I first came to L.A., I was plotting out my career choices as if I actually had a choice. Unless you're Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, impossibly good-looking, or look like a freak, you have to be malleable and open to everything that comes your way because that's what makes it possible to pay your mortgage and eat.

There are many good-looking actors.

Hollywood is driven by beautiful faces. Always has been.

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

Oh, nobody would ever want to know me in Hollywood. I'm far too puffin-faced for that, too weird-looking. No, I think I'll probably stick to telly, if telly'll have me, though I wouldn't mind doing radio plays as well.

Practically everyone in Hollywood has a neighbor who's been famous, wants to be famous, is famous, has been married to someone famous, worked with someone famous, slept with someone famous, been blackmailed by someone famous.

Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.

It's very difficult today for girls to become supermodels. There is a lot more competition, a lot of countries in the East have opened up so there are many more models than there were in the Nineties. Now they have to compete with famous actresses but also with, say, reality stars to be on the magazine covers.

I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.

I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.

In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined.