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Sammy Davis, Jr.

"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."

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"Hollywood wants press, any kind of press."

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

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

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"Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism."

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"What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait."

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

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

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"There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does."

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"Hollywood is a world all its own."

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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."
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"Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?"
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"Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt."
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"Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity."
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"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."
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"I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it."
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"Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us."
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