Larry Gatlin Quotes

To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.

If you can find it in you to love how stupid the entertainment industry is, you can have a great career.

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

I'm 27 years old. I'm going to go into Hollywood really arrogant. I'll be breaking a lot of rules. It's going to be hot.

It's a chain of accidents. When you step into Hollywood, you wind yourself into thousands of chains of accidents. If all of the thousands happen to come out exactly right-and the chance of that figures out to be one in eight million-then you'll be a star.

The first thing to look out for after your first big success are drugs and screenplays.

If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first.

I don't give a damn about Hollywood.

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

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

I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.

I don't think I ever understood Hollywood.

I loved everything about show business, meeting the stars, the whole ambience. I was living every young kid's dream. I was told a pop singer's life was three years, but I was still making money seven years later.

I never took to Hollywood.

Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.

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

Hollywood is a place of great irony at all times.

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

Hollywood is a world all its own.

I'm in love with everything about show business. The only thing that ever came easy to me in life has been acting.

Hollywood is a very inspiring place.

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.

I don't think about Hollywood at all.

I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.