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"I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films."
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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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"I find Hollywood really toxic."
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"In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world."
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"The criteria, for me, is movie star. It's Hollywood. Not Somalia."
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"Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood."
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"You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything."
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"I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star."
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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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"If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?"
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"Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood."
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"What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?"
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"When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble."
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"I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people."
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"That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love."
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"Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job."
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"It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one."
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"Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes."
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"It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say."
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"I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other."
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"It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents."
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