Hollywood Elitism Quotes

Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.

There's this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn't do TV.

Truly what the Emmys are about are the machine behind them, and Oscars are the same way, where if you have a big enough machine behind you, you get nominated, because truly how many of the best performances actually win... not many.

There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.

I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

Working-class actors have no identity. Our identity is playing every single poor person on 'Game Of Thrones.'

A lot of the times when I've auditioned for parts in America, the answer is, 'Sorry, we need a bigger name.'

It’s very simple: If you try to win elections by talking to the elites of this country, you’re going to get your ass kicked — there are not enough Beyonces, Oprahs or Hollywood elites to elect anyone. Trump is not the disease. He is the symptom. The disease is political, cultural, and economic elites who keep telling the public what they should think, feel and believe.

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.

Hollywood liberals could not be reached for comment on the cost of the inauguration because they were being fitted for gowns and jewelry worth millions of dollars in anticipation of Oscar night.

I think that reality is divorced from former vice president Joe Biden who hob knobs with these Hollywood dictators.

I'm listening to the audience. Too many people in Hollywood make what they want to see and not what we want to see. I'm about us. Not about me.