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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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"Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism."
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"The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening."
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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."
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"In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel."
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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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"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."
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"Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting."
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"In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings."
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"If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy."
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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've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most."
Hollywood
"I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little."
Success
"Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here."
Film
"It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance."
Luck
"I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors."
Being
"The truth will only be told over a career."
Truth
"Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point."
Film
"I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing."
Film
"I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy."
Politics
"Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone."
People
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