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"I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years."
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"The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles."
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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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"Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946."
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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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"So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts."
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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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"Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew."
Actor
"Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit."
Talent
"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."
Father
"I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed."
Birthday
"I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man."
Interest
"Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese."
Career
"I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him."
Home
"I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read."
Nothing
"There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day."
Time
"I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none."
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