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"And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days."
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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."
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"Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism."
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"Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath."
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"I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios."
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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 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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"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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"I don't think I ever understood Hollywood."
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"I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy."
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"Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him."
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"I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that."
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"So in those days, they were scooping up any young person who could sing and look decent, ah, at the same time."
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"And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived."
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"I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening."
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"It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies."
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"And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days."
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"I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies."
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"So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies."
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"The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up."
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"My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there."
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