Daryn Kagan Quotes

Entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me.

I don't want to be in Hollywood or anything like that.

You've got to swank in Hollywood.

We not from Hollywood, so I'm not playing Hollywood's game.

I never pictured myself as an entertainer or a superstar or a model or anything like that.

Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

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

You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.

People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.

Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'

The showbiz world has to be manipulated to make it more interesting because most people's lives are boring.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

Hollywood's a very weird place. I think there's less of everything except for attitude.

I don't necessarily need Hollywood.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

I am an outsider looking in, absolutely. You're not going to see me at the Academy Awards 'Vanity Fair' party any time soon. I'm not somebody who, no matter where I go, there are paparazzi or any of that nonsense. But I have a little window into that world, and I can enter it and dance around. I want to be the audience's ticket into the party.

At first, when you go to premieres and award shows, you're thinking, 'How the hell am I here? All these people I've never met are here, and it's so cool!' And then, as time goes on, it's a little bit like, 'Ah... it's more like work.'

Hollywood is the kind of town that likes to make everything larger than life: movie premieres, aging actress' lips, and murders. Actors come from all over the world to find their sliver of fame on the street of L.A. Many stars rise, but many more fall.

Being on the red carpet is both fun and a little nerve wracking, but more fun.

A little showbiz never hurt anyone.

Nothing surprises me when it comes to people in the entertainment business.

I'm not somebody who no matter where I go there are paparazzi or any of that nonsense. But I have a little window into that world and I can enter it and dance around. I want to be the audience's ticket into the party.

Every time I walk down one of those red carpets, you think I'd be used to it after all these years, but it's like it's happening for the first time.

Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.