Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes

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 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.

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

Hollywood, what a place it is! It is so far away from the rest of the world, so narrow. No one thinks of anything but motion pictures or talks of anything else.

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

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

I don't think I ever understood Hollywood.

I've got no anti-America or anti-Hollywood kick, it's just that I never wanted to go and kick my heels around L.A. for six months hoping something would happen.

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.

I'm from Los Angeles, and growing up here, I've always been enamored by Hollywood and the industry. It's just something I grew up with, and I loved it.

Hollywood is a peculiar beast - people in Hollywood are nuts.

The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.

Hollywood is my day job.

Hollywood is a world all its own.

And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.

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

I think every cute girl is told to move to L.A. someday. So I do like the drive over from my house to the studio.

Hollywood is always about Hollywood.

I've never really considered packing my suitcase and heading to Hollywood.

Hollywood is a pretty edgy place.

I always thought, like everyone, that Hollywood was a superhero factory.

I watched movies, obviously, just like anybody else, but there was nothing to make me think, 'I'm going to go to L.A. and become a movie star,' or anything like that.

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.

Maybe I will end up in the movies.