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Hollywood Quotes
"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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"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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"I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood."
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"I don't even take myself seriously, so how could I possibly take Hollywood seriously?"
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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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"In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests."
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"Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch."
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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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"Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad."
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"Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood."
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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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"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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"And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood."
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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 was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd."
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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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"Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood."
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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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"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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"Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks."
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"I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it."
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"Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946."
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"An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer."
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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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"Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting."
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"Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath."
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"It seems the farther away we are from Hollywood, the better the ratings."
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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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"It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out."
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"Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood."
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"All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely."
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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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"Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation."
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"The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we've lost something, and we don't know how to get it back."
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