Ryan Murphy Quotes

It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world.

Hollywood large is so different than real-life large.

I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again.

I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way.

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

I used to be obsessed with Johnny Depp. I never thought of him as this normal guy. I just always imagined him as someone who lives in a far-off land and doesn't even exist.

Hollywood is an image. We project these fantasies on to it, but people are just people.

It seemed too glamorous to me to be an actress like in the movies.

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

I adore being able to go to the Oscars and know every single person at the party afterwards.

My impression was, 'This Hollywood thing doesn't seem too hard.'

One of the weird things about Hollywood is we're all imposters; we're all just glammed up.

When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.

It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really.

Hollywood is an illusion. These intense workplaces, with very close relationships, a few months at a time - and then it ends.

What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.

You have to be a little unreal to be in this business.

I've been simultaneously drawn to and repelled from Hollywood for years.

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

Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice.

Maybe we should have known that night in Denver that things that begin with plywood Greek columns and artificial smoke typically don't end well. Maybe the Hollywood stars and the glamour blinded us a little: you thought it was the glare, some of us thought it was a halo.

Most entertainment careers aren't going to end in fame.

I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.

I'm an actress, and that's why I'm still here. Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding themselves.

If you believe what you are on the red carpet, then you would have to go see a doctor, and there are so many actors like that. You have to know very well this is a moment of glamour, and when I go back home, I don't have the airbrush, and I have dark circles because I don't have the make-up on.