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"You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood."
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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."

"The criteria, for me, is movie star. It's Hollywood. Not Somalia."

"I tell you, I'm really not what you'd call into your basic kink, even though we do live in Hollywood, which is a little bit like living in a box of granola."

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

"I would rather have gotten married than have a Hollywood contract."

"In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly."

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

"I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals."

"I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me."
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"Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox."
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