Lesley Manville Quotes

When you go to awards shows these days, you can walk through a room and they give you everything for free: sunglasses, guitars, stuff for the wife.

We don't get the Tony gift basket anymore. You used to get incredible swag - there was like $5,000 worth of stuff. I remember getting an MP3 player, gift certificates to restaurants, a three-year gym membership.

Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.

As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?

People love things about Hollywood. People love to see the inside of what's going on.

Have I ever been to a party with a ton of famous people in it? Yes, several times, so I guess that's a Hollywood lifestyle.

The allegedly 'classy' magazines often seem to be in an endless, undeclared competition to see who can climb furthest up the fundament of Gwyneth Paltrow or Jennifer Lopez.

Celebrity watching and speculation is almost like a sport.

The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

Let me tell you, the life of a C list celebrity is pretty sweet. If I want to go to an Applebee's, all I have to do is, literally, walk in the door. They seat me as soon as the other people ahead of me are seated.

While being the husband of uberstylist Rachel Zoe lets me waltz confidently into fashion shows with Rachel by my side, the VIP treatment usually stops there.

As a movie star, you get good tables at restaurants.

As for Hollywood children, their social life can get a little overboard, just like their parents can. Living in town, you attend so many functions.

I don't do movie junket-y things, because I don't really do movies that much.

... when I finish reading People, I always feel that I have just spent four days in Los Angeles. Women's Wear Daily at least makes me feel dirty; People makes me feel that I haven't read or learned or seen anything at all.

Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

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

Fame is probably the most unadorable thing about acting.

I'm not a movie guy. I don't know all this stuff that comes with celebrity. I don't know who the actors will be and stuff like that. But anybody who wants to talk about the issues - that's great.

Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.

I don't think there is anything good about fame. 'Tables in restaurants.' People say that but, then again, why don't you just call the day before? Or go eat somewhere else?

I don't like ostentatious galas and stuff like that, but if you get to the Oscars, you'd better get used to it and you'd better enjoy it.

Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.