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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."
"Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath."
"I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios."
"And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood."
"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."
"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."
"I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow."
"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."
"I don't even take myself seriously, so how could I possibly take Hollywood seriously?"
Explore more quotes by Allan Sherman
"I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich."
"Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else."
"Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol."
"When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents."
"Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highest triple word score in the world would not have expressed how much I liked the game Natalie and I played every afternoon."
"I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper."
"Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage."
"It's a play where something went wrong, 'Cause it's five hours, twelve minutes long. If you sit there, my friend, From beginning 'til end, Then your bladder better be strong!"
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