"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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"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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"I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star."

Anna May Wong, Chinese Actress

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Bette Davis, American Actress

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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."

Glenn Danzig, American Musician

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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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"Hollywood is kind of a bad world."

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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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"I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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"Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood."

David Hockney, English Artist

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"In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died."

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"I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't."

Character

"Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies."

Movies

"Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting."

Career

"My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job."

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"I've never considered myself a leading man, don't look like one, don't want to be one."

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"I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice."

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"I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star."

"Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism."

"I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter."

"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."

"I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star."

"I find Hollywood really toxic."

"Hollywood is kind of a bad world."

"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."

"I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal."

"Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood."

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"In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died."

"I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't."

"Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies."

"Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting."

"My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job."

"I could talk about Blade Runner forever."

"Work begets work."

"My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night."

"I've never considered myself a leading man, don't look like one, don't want to be one."

"I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice."