Paul F. Tompkins Quotes

I don't necessarily need Hollywood.

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.

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

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

I am a child of Hollywood and dreams. To me, to be on the red carpet is the best place in the world.

You've got to swank in Hollywood.

I hate the showbiz scene.

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.

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

I'm not into the whole showbiz scene.

Entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me.

There are more movie stars in the lobby of the Aquadulce than there are in the lobby of the Beverly Hills Hotel.

I don't really miss the Hollywood lifestyle.

There are those, I think, who are attracted to the glitz of celebrity life. I am not one of them.

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

Walking down the red carpet, suddenly I felt very special and different. All the flashlights from cameras and requesting voices from the media, the scene, it was just like what I remembered seeing on TV or a movie when I was a little girl - the scene only when movie stars appeared.

The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.

I've never been interested in celebrity.

As young, hot actors living in Hollywood, you get even more attractive.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

I never took to Hollywood.

I'm not a Hollywood guy.

The life of an actor can be very enviable.