Kitty Carlisle Quotes

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

If you really want to understand Hollywood, you have to live in it.

Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.

Hollywood has been an enormous part of my life, as I know it has been for countless fans all over the world.

You throw a rock in Hollywood and you're going to hit someone in the film industry.

The movie industry is full of crazy people who think that they are god.

I don't own Hollywood.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

I don't give a damn about Hollywood.

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

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

Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.

I don't think I ever understood Hollywood.

The movie industry used to be completely accessible. We all knew people in it, and nobody made a big fuss.

My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.

I didn't grow up knowing actors' names, and my parents weren't theater people.

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.

Mystery makes movie stars! If you see someone on the cover of the weeklies all the time, why would you want to pay to see them in a movie?

I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago.

I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care.

Hollywood is a world all its own.

You know, Hollywood is a very interesting town - always has been, always will be.

Hollywood is a very inspiring place.

I knew since third grade I wanted to be Jim Carrey. His freedom, his goofiness, his crazy, loud, sudden energy. I told my family I was going to be a pediatrician, but in the back of my mind, I was like, 'Nope, I'm going to be the biggest movie star ever.'