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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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"Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs."
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"Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story."
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"You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood."
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"I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal."
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"I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard."
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"There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both."
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"Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath."
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"I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood."
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"Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle."
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"But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it."
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"Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived."
Friendship
"I don't have many easy songs."
Music
"Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves."
Reality
"A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made."
Baby
"Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food."
Food
"I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50."
Being
"There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time."
Time
"Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted."
Hope
"I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me."
People
"I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there."
War
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