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"The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios."
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"Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch."
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"Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks."
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"I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood."
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"In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings."
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"I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks."
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"Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons."
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"The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we've lost something, and we don't know how to get it back."
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"I consider myself a student of Hollywood."
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"How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?"
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"You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well."
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"Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit."
Talent
"Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set."
Behavior
"Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish."
Life
"Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not."
People
"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
"Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful."
Beauty
"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."
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