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"Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs."
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"Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story."
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"I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal."
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"I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard."
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"There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both."
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"Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath."
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"I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood."
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"Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle."
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"But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it."
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"Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche."
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"There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it."
Advice
"In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel."
Hollywood
"The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both."
Art
"Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle."
Money
"In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace."
Peace
"Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it."
Business
"Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock."
Time
"Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat."
Love
"I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain."
Sports
"Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety."
Mind
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