Payal Rohatgi Quotes

To be successful in Bollywood, one needs a certain body type.

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

To pursue a career in Hollywood you have to have a personality bypass. Look at the top 20 stars in the world - there's probably only two actors among them. Hollywood's not about you as an actor. It's about your currency, what you 'bring to the table'. And I've never been one to jump through hoops for anyone.

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

You have to be a star to be in this business.

Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.

Hollywood is driven by beautiful faces. Always has been.

Films make stars and stars never make films.

I'm kind of irritated by the Hollywood scene.

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.

My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.

Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.

Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'

Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.

If you look round Hollywood there's no end of white smiles and six packs. Long lines of beautiful people lining up to be incredible on film.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!

I'm not particularly good at 'celebrity'; I don't think it was something I was born to do. I think I can get by as an actor, but I've never been one for the red carpet and don't put a lot of stock in celebrities that are famous for being famous.

Hollywood is kind of a bad world.

Hollywood is the kind of town that likes to make everything larger than life: movie premieres, aging actress' lips, and murders. Actors come from all over the world to find their sliver of fame on the street of L.A. Many stars rise, but many more fall.

There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.