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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."

"But we did the Pink Panther not in Hollywood, in Italy."

"I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals."

"I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me."

"The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do."

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

"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."
Explore more quotes by Allan Sherman

"Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol."

"You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes."

"Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck."

"Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else."

"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."

"When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents."

"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!"

"They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee."
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