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Hollywood Quotes
"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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"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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"I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals."
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"I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow."
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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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"And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press."
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"In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings."
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"It seems the farther away we are from Hollywood, the better the ratings."
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"Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool."
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"Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad."
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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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"The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do."
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"An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer."
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"Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood."
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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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"Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons."
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"I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows."
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"I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer."
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"I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter."
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"Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood."
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"Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath."
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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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"Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946."
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"I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd."
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"Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting."
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"All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely."
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"The criteria, for me, is movie star. It's Hollywood. Not Somalia."
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"In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests."
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"I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it."
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"Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire."
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"In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture."
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"After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully."
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"The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening."
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"Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him."
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"Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch."
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"Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse."
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