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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 don't think about Hollywood at all."
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"In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies."
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"The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do."
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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 had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years."
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"Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation."
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"I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer."
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"I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow."
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"I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy."
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"Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse."
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"I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that."
Love
"If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did."
Money
"A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen."
Friendship
"I've made a lot of people a lot of money, and I've made a lot of people really happy. I've entertained millions and millions of people."
Money
"Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama."
Comedy
"When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long."
Food
"You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings."
Friendship
"For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life."
Life
"The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles."
Hollywood
"Underneath all the skin, we're all the same."
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