Katharine Isabelle Quotes

My own aunt was Merle Oberon, so movie stardom was not a faraway mystery to me as a child: it was part of the family business.

My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.

My dad worked for different companies that made whiskey for a long time, so we were definitely whiskey drinkers. Growing up, my friends would get toy cars, and I would get swag from whisky companies.

I never did love Hollywood, I just loved the work.

Thank you, Hollywood, for allowing me to be part of your group.

Hollywood itself is a little intimidating and exciting. There's definitely a way to go about approaching it.

I'm not in Hollywood because I'm good at math.

My parents are in the business - they're actors - so I kind of grew up on a film set, which was a funny place to grow up.

A lot of my friend's mothers and parents worked at Paramount Studios, so I would always go. I met the Fonz when I was really young, like four or five years old. I was always around people in entertainment all the time throughout my whole life.

My whole family are in the entertainment industry. It is always something I was used to; I was quite lucky growing up. To all my friends, it was quite exciting, but to me it was quite normal.

Hollywood is not easy.

I loved that people loved my dad. He never said no to an autograph but didn't make fame a "thing" or act any differently. And it was beautiful to have that support from his fan base when I started to study acting.

I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business.

I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.

Coming from a filmy background, I have seen everything growing up, but even at that point of time, it never really fascinated me. I did not like going to my dad's shoots. We were taught not to get carried away with it from a very young age.

I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room.

I have been working professionally in the entertainment industry since I was six.

I don't own Hollywood.

I don't want to be a part of any Bollywood movie.

I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.

The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.

I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.

Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.

I'm world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made.

Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.