'Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Winning is everything in Hollywood.
You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.
You've gotta play the Hollywood game, and you know you're doing good the more notoriety you're getting, and that's gold. That's what every actor wants because then you know you're at another level.
I'm not successful in Hollywood, and I probably would never be. I think Hollywood has such an interesting model for success, and it creates those successful people. I'm not in that chosen category, but what is successful for me is that, in spite of that, I've been able to work and do the things that I wrote down that I wanted to do and be.
Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.
I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood.
Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.
Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.
Everyone in Hollywood who is successful becomes less successful at some point. I'm just trying to delay that fall for as long as I can.
In Hollywood you just fail upwards.