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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 live on this nice three acres in Hollywood."

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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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"All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely."

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"If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy."

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"Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department."

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

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

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

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"I never took to Hollywood."

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"Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures."

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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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"If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man."
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"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."
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"The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with."
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"Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt."
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"What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent."
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"I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there."
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