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

"I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood."

"I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me."

"I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it."

"Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks."

"There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does."
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"Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside."


"The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it."


"Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?"


"Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart."


"Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us."
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