"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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"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 was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it."

Sherilyn Fenn, American Actress

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"And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood."

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"I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's in. So you just think that it's Hollywood stuff or whatever."

Barry Levinson, American Director

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"If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?"

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"It seems the farther away we are from Hollywood, the better the ratings."

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"I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one."

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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."

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"I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it."

Hollywood

"I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't know what is going to happen. I'm in this and I don't understand it. This is never going to sell. Who's going to watch this thing?"

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"I loved working on Of Mice and Men. It was a wonderful group of people. John Malkovich is to me one of the best actors around right now-and a lot of fun to work with."

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"In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and unique."

Balance

"I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen."

Life

"I can sing, but my voice is untrained. I'd like to do a musical someday."

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"You say a line and you wait for them to laugh, then you say another line and you wait... It felt weird to me. But it's interesting and the energy is almost like theatre, I suppose, with all the people there."

People

"When I read the script, I was like, Hello, woman in a box. I had to explore that to the end."

End

"I don't flirt and I don't play the people that I'm meeting with."

People

"Now I know why guys like to hug girls. You guys just want to cop a feel. I can't believe that I've fallen for it all these years!"

Girls