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Hollywood Quotes
"The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff."
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"Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood."
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"Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks."
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"In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly."
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"The criteria, for me, is movie star. It's Hollywood. Not Somalia."
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"I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market."
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"In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids."
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"I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me."
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"Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton."
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"Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool."
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"I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me."
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"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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"Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch."
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"Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel."
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"Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room."
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"There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does."
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"And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press."
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"So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts."
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"Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place."
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"Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood."
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"In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom."
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"You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well."
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"This is the place to see the stars - Hollywood Bowl."
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"When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room and gave them popcorn. It was called 'Project Hollywood 2004' and it worked. I moved to L.A. in January of 2004."
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"There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard."
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"Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood."
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"I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood."
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"Because someone stole Gregory Peck's star on Hollywood Blvd., I have hired a Brink's guard to protect my star!"
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"I would rather have gotten married than have a Hollywood contract."
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"Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation."
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"How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?"
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"In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it."
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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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"Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946."
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