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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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"I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star."
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"I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me."
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"Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism."
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"I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter."
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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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"I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood."
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"I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star."
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"Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project."
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"I find Hollywood really toxic."
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"Hollywood is kind of a bad world."
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"What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it."
Difficulty
"I'm gonna be unemployed when people read this. Ha."
People
"I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image, and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals."
Word
"There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well."
Love
"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."
Corporate
"If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are."
Hearing
"I've been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I've had a couple of TV series. I've continued to work despite the predictions of some naysayers."
Work
"When it comes down to it, it's about who you know, and who's a fan. It's about whether you're the right age, whether you're hot or not, whether the studio is into you or not."
Age
"How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know?"
Business
"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."
Actor
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