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"Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation."

"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."
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"Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines."


"By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested."


"It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics."


"If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing."


"Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics."


"I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day."
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