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"In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture."
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"I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter."
"The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do."
"Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood."
"The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles."
"How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?"
"I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it."
"I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood."
"Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche."
"My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out."
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"Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right."
"As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl."
"And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self."
"I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food."
"Fay has spirituality too, but she also has that very real sex appeal that takes hold of the hearts of men."
"The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love."
"If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead."
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