Amanda Eliasch Quotes

I would like to go to the Oscars. I'm not even talking about being nominated - although that would be lovely. Even if it was I won a competition on the back of a crisp packet to go to the Oscars I would like to go to the Oscars.

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

Now I love LA, but there are a lot of weird aspects to Hollywood.

I'm always caught up in the thrill of award season: The golden statues, the glamorous stars, and the fabulous gowns.

People love things about Hollywood. People love to see the inside of what's going on.

I always go to the Cannes Film Festival and it's just such a glamorous time.

It's nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn't happen all the time.

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.

Being from New York, there's three things you know about Hollywood. You know about the Hollywood sign, Sunset Strip and Hollywood Boulevard with the stars.

I didn't really expect to be coming to the Oscars.

Practically everyone in Hollywood has a neighbor who's been famous, wants to be famous, is famous, has been married to someone famous, worked with someone famous, slept with someone famous, been blackmailed by someone famous.

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

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

You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.

I still giggle when someone asks for my address and I say, 'Hollywood, Los Angeles.'

I don't hang out at trendy Hollywood bars.

I'm not really enamored by movie stars.

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

I am an outsider looking in, absolutely. You're not going to see me at the Academy Awards 'Vanity Fair' party any time soon. 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.

Hollywood and fashion are symbiotic partners, especially during awards season.

Everything you have ever heard about the strangeness of Hollywood is true!

The thing about living in Los Angeles and doing a lot of movies is that you get to go to a lot of premieres, and, regardless of whether or not you're a celebrity, you still get to walk down the red carpet and then have everyone sort of screaming your name. The pictures never get printed anywhere, but they are nonetheless taking your picture.

I never wanted to work with celebrities. I have no interest. I don't really care about their egos and their publicists.

The good thing about L.A. is that there's always someone more famous 100 yards away from me.

I don't think about Hollywood at all.