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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."

"All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely."

"Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department."

"I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood."

"I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it."

"Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project."
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"People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized."

"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."

"Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle."

"In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel."

"The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both."

"I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt."

"I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer."
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