Eddie Marsan Quotes

When I did 'Dancing With the Stars,' everyone in Hollywood was saying I had too much muscle.

People love gossip. It's the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.

It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand.

By the time I came to L.A. I'd already cried on movies of the week with two of the women from 'Knots Landing'.

My point of view when I make a book or I make a movie is to see the humanistic point of view. The point of view of the daily life of normal people.

Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren't, it was all just a part of my everyday life.

Everything that happens on 'Entourage' does happen in Hollywood.

In Hollywood, people get reputations, just rumors that are passed down.

An abiding preoccupation for me is how much of our lives are invisible and unknown by other people, like the Chekhov story 'The Lady With the Little Dog.'

It is a reality show... this show is never without drama.

I like the Kardashians. I'm a fan. I watch their show.

Everything you have ever heard about the strangeness of Hollywood is true!

In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.

The thing that cracks me up is how these reality characters start out thrilled and excited just to be on television, and how they move to thinking they are as big as the Friends.

People love scandal; people love drama. They love stripping away the layers to see what's really in there, and they'll do anything - as well as make it up - to get it.

My agent said that every Monday after an episode of 'Entourage,' at the staff meeting at the agency, that's all they do is talk about the episode the night before.

When you do a reality show and host shows, it's hard to have secrets.

Isn't television glamourous?

In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.

I like that show 'Ray Donovan' - I'm obsessed with that. He's in Hollywood, he's some kind of a fixer, but he's also kind of a thug. And 'Scandal,' the D.C. one with Kerry Washington.

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.

You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.

You're beginning to hear the tale of the common man and woman rather than the traditional memoir about the generals who just finished the war or the politicians who just rendered glorious service to the country.

The only thing as murky as a conspiracy is what's happening in Hollywood.

Hollywood listens to money and to controversy.