John Wayne Quotes

When I was 23, I went to work for Jack Nicholson reading scripts. Later, I was married to a production designer named Richard Sylbert. So I lived in Los Angeles for ten years.

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.

Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.

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.

I been in this game a long time.

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.

Hollywood is my day job.

Whether you win or not, the night the Oscars are over, the curtain goes down and you go back to the grind. Period.

I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.

To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can't even tell you.

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

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

I think it's always hard to find great roles, no matter what age you are. So I always say to people, 'You have to remember that Hollywood is in the business of making movies that they can sell tickets to; they're not in the business of finding great roles for actors.'

This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.

My lifetime dream has been to assemble and preserve the history of the Hollywood film industry.

There's so many stories to tell in Hollywood in the Golden Age that stems from truth.

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.

Hollywood is here to stay, and we have to keep the momentum going.

Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.

Be passionate about your [movie] material, because you're going to have to overcome a lot of "No's," and it's that passion that fuels the fight.

I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.

Hollywood is like a stock market - you're always up and down and all around. With age, you start to invest less in the outcome of that.

I'm maybe not so much an exception, maybe because I've lived so long that more is coming, more is there.