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Hollywood Quotes
"Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood."
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"The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff."
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"Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton."
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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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"Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood."
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"The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios."
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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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"Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel."
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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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"Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room."
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"Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left."
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"And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood."
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"In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids."
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"I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one."
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"I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years."
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"Working in Hollywood can be tumultuous, with incredible highs and lows and you need to be grounded."
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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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"As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around."
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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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"Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood."
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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 don't even take myself seriously, so how could I possibly take Hollywood seriously?"
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"Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place."
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"How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?"
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"My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out."
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"I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals."
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"I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most."
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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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"I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood."
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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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"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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"Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood."
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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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"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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"In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet."
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