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Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
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Norma Jeane - Marilyn Monroe
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The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
Author:
Norma Jeane - Marilyn Monroe
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In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.
Author:
Norma Jeane - Marilyn Monroe
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It'd be like what would happen if Hollywood took over porno: 'If we keep their clothes on and they didn't have sex, we'd be able to sell it to a lot more people'.
Author:
Rob Zombie
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At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.
Author:
Philip Zimbardo
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In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly.
Author:
Catherine Zeta-Jones
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I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas. I never would have imagined that one day I would follow one of those clouds and find myself in Hollywood.
Author:
Renee Zellweger
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You know, it's not the people in Hollywood who go to see movies that will make a movie successful; it's the people all around the country; it's word-of-mouth.
Author:
Pia Zadora
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There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.
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Fay Wray
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My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.
Author:
James Woods
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Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It's not going to do me any good.
Author:
James Woods
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Working in Hollywood can be tumultuous, with incredible highs and lows and you need to be grounded.
Author:
Douglas Wood
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Unfortunately, all the cliches we see about Hollywood are true.
Author:
Douglas Wood
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I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star.
Author:
Anna Wong
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In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.
Author:
Shelley Winters
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Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
Author:
Walter Winchell
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Author:
Walter Winchell
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
Author:
Owen Wilson
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Author:
Edmund Wilson
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If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas.
Author:
Ricky Williams
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The question now is does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don't think he'll raise it out of the New York people, I don't think he's going to raise it out the Hollywood people, so where's the money going to come from for Barack Obama?
Author:
Juan Williams
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Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
Author:
Billy Wilder
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You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything.
Author:
Bradley Whitford
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Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
Author:
Orson Welles
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I find Hollywood really toxic.
Author:
Rachel Weisz
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
Author:
Rachel Weisz
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National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.
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Peter Weir
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I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted.
Author:
Andrew Webber
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I think I have always tried to do the smaller films. I like to jump around and there is something really nice for acting in a smaller film. But I think now, Hollywood's movies certainly involve a younger generation for the most part and so... I love going back and forth.
Author:
Sigourney Weaver
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It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
Author:
Naomi Watts
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I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.
Author:
Denzel Washington
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I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.
Author:
Andy Warhol
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I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.
Author:
Rachel Ward
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As a cop, I dealt with every kind of bum and criminal. They all have more integrity than some Hollywood people.
Author:
Joseph Wambaugh
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What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.
Author:
Joseph Wambaugh
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Well, I was getting a lot of money then, and I wasn't getting any Hollywood films, so I just did those. I'd always do a play in between. Whenever I ran low on funds, I'd always rush off to do a movie somewhere.
Author:
Eli Wallach
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I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood.
Author:
Alexander Walker
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If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?
Author:
Jon Voight
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In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.
Author:
Conrad Veidt
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Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.
Author:
Conrad Veidt
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My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.
Author:
Robert Vaughn
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
Author:
Gabrielle Union
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Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.
Author:
Liv Ullmann
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Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.
Author:
Kenneth Tynan
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It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
Author:
Lana Turner
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I never took to Hollywood.
Author:
Kathleen Turner
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Hollywood has lost an enormous amount of quality.
Author:
Claire Trevor
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Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.
Author:
Mel Torme
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All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn't understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting.
Author:
Marisa Tomei
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If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.
Author:
Meg Tilly
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I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set.
Author:
Keith Thibodeaux
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Because someone stole Gregory Peck's star on Hollywood Blvd., I have hired a Brink's guard to protect my star!
Author:
Rip Taylor
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I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow.
Author:
Channing Tatum
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I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.
Author:
Quentin Tarantino
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I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
Author:
Quentin Tarantino
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In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests.
Author:
Max Sydow
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Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.
Author:
Gloria Swanson
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In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.
Author:
Erich Stroheim
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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
Author:
Barbra Streisand
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At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know.
Author:
Peter Stone
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When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room and gave them popcorn. It was called 'Project Hollywood 2004' and it worked. I moved to L.A. in January of 2004.
Author:
Emma Stone
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Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.
Author:
Jerry Stiller
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I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.
Author:
David Stiers
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It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting.
Author:
David Stiers
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As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.
Author:
Patrick Stewart
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I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.
Author:
Patrick Stewart
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I tell you, I'm really not what you'd call into your basic kink, even though we do live in Hollywood, which is a little bit like living in a box of granola.
Author:
McLean Stevenson
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My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.
Author:
Leigh Steinberg
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The whole idea of doing the Hollywood thing never even occurred to me. When you grow up on the East coast, Hollywood seems like this fantasy land and you don't think that people can actually make a living there.
Author:
David Steinberg
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It was a few days later I came out to Hollywood for a screen test, and so did a lot of other people. So, I really didn't think I would get it. I was definitely the one that was least likely to get it, because everyone else was an already established star.
Author:
Mary Steenburgen
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I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.
Author:
Mickey Spillane
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I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.
Author:
Steven Spielberg
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I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood.
Author:
Penelope Spheeris
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There are thousands of directors in Hollywood.
Author:
Penelope Spheeris
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To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.
Author:
Nicholas Sparks
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It's so crazy in Hollywood.
Author:
David Spade
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Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department.
Author:
Ann Sothern
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In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.
Author:
Will Smith
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The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
Author:
Patti Smith
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How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?
Author:
Leonard Slatkin
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This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.
Author:
Christian Slater
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I didn't come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don't want to be considered a cool actor - I want to be a great actor.
Author:
Tom Sizemore
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A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.
Author:
Douglas Sirk
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Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.
Author:
Pauly Shore
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In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.
Author:
Allan Sherman
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I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.
Author:
Sidney Sheldon
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Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.
Author:
Ally Sheedy
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Hollywood is just like high school. The popular people only like the other popular people. And the thing is, some people aren't nice - or they're nice, but only to your face, not elsewhere.
Author:
Amanda Seyfried
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Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.
Author:
Yahoo Serious
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We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.
Author:
Yahoo Serious
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Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.
Author:
Yahoo Serious
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You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood.
Author:
Tom Selleck
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I've learned by hanging out in Hollywood, where I disagree politically with most people, that most people's hearts are in the right place, and the only thing we have to argue about is the way to solve the problems.
Author:
Tom Selleck
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Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.
Author:
Kyra Sedgwick
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Hollywood movies are run on fear and they don't want to make bold choices. They, generally, speaking want to keep things status quo. That's not really interesting for me.
Author:
Kyra Sedgwick
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The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do.
Author:
Josh Schwartz
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Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood.
Author:
Budd Schulberg
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Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.
Author:
John Schlesinger
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We should never forget that Hollywood was built by Europeans, and the old Jewish boys from Eastern Europe.
Author:
Maximilian Schell
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Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger.
Author:
Greta Scacchi
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I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.
Author:
Peter Sarsgaard
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You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.
Author:
Adam Sandler
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So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.
Author:
Eriq Salle
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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.
Author:
Mark Rydell
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My husband is someone who's in the real world. It's a big help that I don't have both feet in Hollywood.
Author:
Jeri Ryan
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West Hollywood is predominantly gay, so every man that came into the grocery store was shopping for his boyfriend.
Author:
Jeri Ryan
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Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.
Author:
Mark Ruffalo
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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Author:
Rita Rudner
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If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.
Author:
George Romero
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Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.
Author:
Cesar Romero
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Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse.
Author:
Cesar Romero
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If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine's Day. I said no.
Author:
Cesar Romero
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In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
Author:
Will Rogers
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In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.
Author:
Will Rogers
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People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
Author:
Wayne Rogers
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The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we've lost something, and we don't know how to get it back.
Author:
Roy Rogers
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Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.
Author:
Patricia Richardson
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
Author:
Natasha Richardson
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I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.
Author:
Lee Remick
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You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense.
Author:
John Reilly
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If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!
Author:
Helen Reddy
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Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.
Author:
John Ratzenberger
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So many people aren't ready for Hollywood - professionally or practically.
Author:
John Ratzenberger
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As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films.
Author:
Johnny Ramone
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As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.
Author:
Harold Ramis
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In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.
Author:
Anthony Quinn
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I don't want to be the Hollywood girl... I'm Southern and old-fashioned.
Author:
Jaime Pressly
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You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.
Author:
Priscilla Presley
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Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.
Author:
Elvis Presley
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I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.
Author:
Elvis Presley
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But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.
Author:
Sydney Pollack
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Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls.
Author:
Julia Phillips
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Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.
Author:
Ryan Phillippe
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Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles.
Author:
William Petersen
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I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.
Author:
Tyler Perry
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I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood.
Author:
Robin Penn
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Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.
Author:
Robin Penn
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Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.
Author:
Alexander Payne
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This summer, I'll be bringing out a mystery that involves a young lawyer and a court scene the likes of which I don't think you've ever seen. Hollywood said this is James Patterson meets John Grisham.
Author:
James Patterson
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Training Day was such a Hollywood movie; I didn't like it.
Author:
Jason Patric
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Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch.
Author:
Jason Patric
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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.
Author:
Trey Parker
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A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves.
Author:
Jennifer O'Neill
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I would rather have gotten married than have a Hollywood contract.
Author:
Jennifer O'Neill
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I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens.
Author:
Tatum O'Neal
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As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic.
Author:
Maureen O'Hara
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After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.
Author:
Maureen O'Hara
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Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.
Author:
Richard O'Brien
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After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but also have some actors that had no attitude.
Author:
Phillip Noyce
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I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star.
Author:
Kim Novak
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I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here.
Author:
Kim Novak
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Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that.
Author:
Lyn Nofziger
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I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.
Author:
Robert Niro
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I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.
Author:
Jack Nicholson
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Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews.
Author:
Pola Negri
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People ask me if I ever feel outside the Hollywood loop, and I never do, because both of us do a lot of theatre, so it's great for New York and it's also half-way between Europe and the west coast, so it's the best of both worlds.
Author:
Liam Neeson
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Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses.
Author:
Kevin Nealon
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I don't even take myself seriously, so how could I possibly take Hollywood seriously?
Author:
Brittany Murphy
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I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.
Author:
Brittany Murphy
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Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood.
Author:
Vic Morrow
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I consider myself a student of Hollywood.
Author:
Rob Morrow
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It's a good time to be making movies, despite the cynicism people have about Hollywood.
Author:
Rob Morrow
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I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.
Author:
Ennio Morricone
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On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.
Author:
Rick Moranis
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Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again.
Author:
Ricardo Montalban
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Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
Author:
Marilyn Monroe
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There are so many things I'd like to change in the industry. Everything from the reliance of style over substance to their reluctance to hire me for big budget blockbusters, but the thing I would love most would be if they understood people don't have to be Hollywood beautiful to be sexy or interesting.
Author:
Colin Mochrie
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Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.
Author:
Wilson Mizner
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I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.
Author:
Wilson Mizner
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I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.
Author:
Radha Mitchell
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I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
Author:
Radha Mitchell
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Hollywood, it has treated me so nicely, I am ready to faint! As soon as I see Hollywood, I love it.
Author:
Carmen Miranda
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In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, 'Did he leave a will?' but 'Did he leave a diary?'
Author:
Liza Minnelli
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Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to.
Author:
Liza Minnelli
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Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star.
Author:
Liza Minelli
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It seems the farther away we are from Hollywood, the better the ratings.
Author:
Martin Milner
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Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.
Author:
Dennis Miller
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I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one.
Author:
Jean-Marie Messier
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Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.
Author:
Michael Medved
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The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood's box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place.
Author:
Michael Medved
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This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.
Author:
Michael Medved
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In Hollywood you can't even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they're always showing people smoking. I don't get it.
Author:
Gerald McRaney
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Once you've been booked, people in Hollywood say, 'Oh he must be good.' All the while you're the same actor.
Author:
Joel McHale
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To this day, I don't know what shapes a Hollywood career.
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Dorothy McGuire
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So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts.
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Ewan McGregor
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The attempt is that we want to get a couple of minutes under our belt, depending on how good the tests are and take that into Hollywood. The fallback is we're going to DVD anyways. We've got that covered.
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Todd McFarlane
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My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.
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Hattie McDaniel
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We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.
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Hattie McDaniel
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What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.
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Hattie McDaniel
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I'm sure those rumors are spread, but it's just ah - we're really good friend. We've been since day one in Hollywood. In class, we've been together in school. We've gotten really close, but I don't know about the more than friends stuff.
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Scotty McCreery
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Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer.
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Kent McCord
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True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.
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Kent McCord
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I live in Italy part time, and they're obsessed with what's happening in LA too. They make fun of Americans, but the world wants to know what's going on in Hollywood.
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Debi Mazar
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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W. Maugham
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Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle.
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Victor Mature
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I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.
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Marlee Matlin
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Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth.
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Marlee Matlin
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What the Bleep Do We Know was not written with a deaf person in mind, but when they met me, it clicked with them to have me in it. But that happens with a lot of actors in Hollywood, not just with me.
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Marlee Matlin
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I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks.
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Jerry Mathers
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Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.
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Mary Mastrantonio
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In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.
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Groucho Marx
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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Olivier Martinez
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There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.
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Dean Martin
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I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.
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Eddie Marsan
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But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.
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Patrick Marber
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I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.
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Patrick Marber
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Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.
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Nick Mancuso
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I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.
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David Mamet
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I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.
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Leonard Maltin
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I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.
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Leonard Maltin
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Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.
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Leonard Maltin
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I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.
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Dorothy Malone
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Hollywood is kind of a bad world.
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Mia Maestro
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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Patrick Macnee
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I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things like that.
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Gavin MacLeod
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Hollywood is not good when it comes to age.
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Kyle MacLachlan
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Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?
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Matthew MacFadyen
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It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and it will expand into more than one production house.
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Ann Macbeth
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Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.
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Lorna Luft
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I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.
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Lorna Luft
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In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.
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Ernst Lubitsch
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Most Americans in both red and blue states reject and resent the message being sent by Hollywood and some in the media that values are subjective, to be defined by the individual and not by God.
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Trent Lott
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In Hollywood, she's revered, she gets nominated for Oscars, but I've never heard anyone in the public or among my friends say, 'Oh, I love Winona Ryder.'
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Jennifer Lopez
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I think what destroys Hollywood marriages is our work schedule, not so much infidelity.
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Eva Longoria
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Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.
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Richard Linklater
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Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.
Author:
Richard Linklater
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I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.
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Richard Linklater
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English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.
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Bai Ling
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Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
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Oscar Levant
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
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Oscar Levant
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If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.
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Jay Leno
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Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity.
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Mike Leigh
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I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.
Author:
Diane Lane
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Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946.
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Burt Lancaster
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I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.
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Hedy Lamarr
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The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
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Hedy Lamarr
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Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.
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Hedy Lamarr
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That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions.
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Bert Lahr
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I'll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working.
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Ashton Kutcher
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Media companies, under the guise of piracy, are asking congress to give them more control over fair use. Hollywood wants to control innovation.
Author:
Joe Krauss
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So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.
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Shirley Knight
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You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's much better if you've got four or five.
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Nigel Kneale
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Everybody told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place they said I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was that no one would quite know what to do with me.
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Persis Khambatta
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I'll be a flop in movies. Besides, I don't like 'em, and I never did believe there was a place called Hollywood. Somebody made it up!
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Patsy Kelly
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Hollywood is a world all its own.
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Moira Kelly
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An audience is going to be able to find a little bit of Dorothy in themselves and relate to this woman.: roles like Dorothy Day are so rare in Hollywood.
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Moira Kelly
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There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.
Author:
Elia Kazan
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I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
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Elia Kazan
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It's nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film as long as it is the right thing to do.
Author:
Neil Jordan
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.
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Erica Jong
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Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.
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Erica Jong
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The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.
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James Jones
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I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.
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James Jones
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I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.
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Angelina Jolie
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I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.
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J. Johnson
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I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
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Holly Johnson
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I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.
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Etta James
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I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood.
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Brion James
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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Victoria Jackson
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The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
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Victoria Jackson
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You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.
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Michael Jackson
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This is the place to see the stars - Hollywood Bowl.
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Mahalia Jackson
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Do you know how many plastic surgeries are done to the actors and actresses in Hollywood?
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Joseph Jackson
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Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.
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John Huston
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One says also, it is one of the most faithful men in Hollywood, and makes again more interesting it equal.
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Michelle Hunziker
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I wasn't an actor. They they take the externals. Here I was, a kid thrown into Hollywood with a brand-new name, starring in motion pictures.
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Tab Hunter
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Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.
Author:
Tab Hunter
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When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood.
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Jeffrey Hunter
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I think what Hollywood has done for so long, is make movies for themselves.
Author:
David Hunt
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Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.
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Bonnie Hunt
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It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.
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Charlie Hunnam
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At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!
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John Hughes
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I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.
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Lena Horne
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They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood.
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Bob Hope
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Law students have taken over Hollywood. To them it's all about making money. They know people want to see what they've seen before. Also, remakes are places to showcase the new stars of tomorrow.
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Tobe Hooper
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It's actually great to shoot far away from Hollywood because we don't have the distractions of the parties and premieres and all that. And, of course, you can save money - there are no good shoe stores.
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Katie Holmes
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I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing.
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Judy Holliday
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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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David Hockney
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I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest.
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Laura Hillenbrand
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It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out.
Author:
Laura Hillenbrand
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Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.
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Walter Hill
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I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated.
Author:
Barbara Hershey
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The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
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Katharine Hepburn
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I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.
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Natasha Henstridge
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Where is this Hollywood scene, where is it? I'd like to find it one day... If I want to go out and have a good time, I go to New York.
Author:
Natasha Henstridge
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And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.
Author:
Skitch Henderson
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I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.
Author:
Skitch Henderson
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I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.
Author:
Skitch Henderson
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It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.
Author:
Martin Henderson
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I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
Author:
Ben Hecht
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Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.
Author:
Ben Hecht
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People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
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Ben Hecht
