"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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"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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"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."

Roger Ebert, American Critic

Hollywood, Teen, Comedy, Right

"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

Hollywood, Play

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

Skitch Henderson, American Musician

Hollywood, Television

"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."

Brion James, American Actor

Hollywood, Play, Stars

"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

Hollywood, Talking, Thinking

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

Jon Voight, American Actor

Hollywood, Washington

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

Martin Milner, American Actor

Hollywood,

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

Jean-Marie Messier, French Businessman

Hollywood,

"In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly."

Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh Actress

Hollywood, World

"Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story."

Chris Farley, American Comedian

Hollywood,

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"I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good."

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"I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period."

Work

"I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?"

People

"I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema."

People

"Being a secretary was considered a very good job in those days."

Being

"It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences, different reasons for being the way they are."

Life

"I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies."

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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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly."

"Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story."

Explore more quotes by Brenda Blethyn

"I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good."

"I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period."

"I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?"

"I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema."

"Being a secretary was considered a very good job in those days."

"It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences, different reasons for being the way they are."

"The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well."

"I love silence."

"Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition."

"I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies."