Celebrity Gatherings Quotes

I have a lot of celebrity friends. But they're all Hollywood friends. You can't call them if you fall over and break your leg, but if you're having a BBQ and wanna chitchat, you hang out with them, or you go to their house.

It was a different social structure. I'd go to [David] Bailey's for dinner at 10:30. There were always girls there and a house full of . . . I don't know, anybody. Cecil Beaton, Diana Cooper . . . And there I am sitting down with these creatures of the 20th century, and it was normal to us.

There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.

I am so excited. I love IIFA. I think it's great to meet all the people from your fraternity in one place, that too out of the country.

I don't like ostentatious galas and stuff like that, but if you get to the Oscars, you'd better get used to it and you'd better enjoy it.

It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.

The Emmys is great, but the Golden Globes, you have the stars of television and the stars of movies in one place.

The black comedians meeting? Oh yeah, we hold one every year at Eddie Murphy's house.

What's not to look forward to? It's like all the actors in all of the films. It's difficult to get Martin Freeman and I in a room together. Imagine what it's like to get myself, Chris Hemsworth, Robert Downey Jr., Elizabeth Olsen... these extraordinary actors who all have careers outside the Marvel Universe.

At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents.

We have North Shore, Hawaii and Lost all there, so they have softball tournaments between the casts. It's hilarious.

[I] go to the Golden Globes, the Grammys, all the awards shows. Just stuff you would never get to do as a regular person were things that were really exciting for me.

I certainly immerse myself in as many crazy Hollywood events as I can because you never know where you can pick up material.