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"Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood."
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"I don't think about Hollywood at all."
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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."
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"The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do."
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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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"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."
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"Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation."
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"I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer."
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"And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press."
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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."
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"Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood."
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"I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes."
Difficulty
"After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried."
Years
"We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise."
Army
"My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell."
Love
"I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944."
Food
"My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends."
Family
"I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book."
Thought
"All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in."
Money
"The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience."
Experience
"The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life."
Life
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