Relationships in Hollywood
Actors' quotes about relationships and social life
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This section collects actors and directors' quotes about relationship and friendship. How hard is it to build and preserve social relations in Hollywood? The main themes of this section are honesty, hypocrisy, friendship, hostility and bonding. On set, it is important to make friends, but sometimes is right in front of the cameras that actors start disliking each other. Here, celebrities share their experiences through their best quotes on social relations.
“Above and beyond having the social life, to have a core group of people that you work with and spend time with and learn how to work with is a nice thing.”
“Be loyal to those who are loyal to you. And respect everyone, even your enemies and competition.”
“You just have to find the people that you love, and surround yourself with them.”
“I have a fairly pragmatic view on all those bullies that came before, because everybody makes you who you are now.”
“You can learn more from a person just from their observations and how they see the world. More so than just talking.”
“For the most part, it's about keeping the same people around you - people who really care about your well-being - they keep you focused.”
“Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.”
“I always think you can tell a lot about a person by how they talk to their cab driver.”
“It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.”
“Certainly most movie executives were making love to the starlets. But then, so were most of us actors.”
- Also found in Career in Cinema
“The monster was the best friend I ever had.”
“I'll miss Hollywood. Of the twenty friends I thought I had, I'll miss the six I really had.”
- Also found in About Colleagues
“My heart is broken. I’ve lost the best pal anyone ever had.”
“He is one of the few people in the world I would instinctively think of if I needed help of any sort.”
“A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.”
“I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.”
“In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.”
“They're some of the best people around and some of the worst people around, just like in any business... they just gesticulate a little bit more.”
“If I'm not working, I really have nothing to do with it - I'm not hanging out and mixing with film people.”
“There's one wonderful thing about this business. You're privileged to meet some great people. There's a bond of sincere commiseration. The stuffed shirts form a fence behind which the others can get and tell naughty stories.”
“The woman who talks baby talk. She's gotta go.”
“Some of my best friends are actors.”
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