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Hollywood Quotes


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


"In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests."


"There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard."


"Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch."


"I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals."


"The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios."


"In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture."


"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."


"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."


"It seems the farther away we are from Hollywood, the better the ratings."


"Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation."


"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."


"Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad."


"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."


"I would rather have gotten married than have a Hollywood contract."


"An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer."


"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."


"My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out."


"The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we've lost something, and we don't know how to get it back."


"Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting."


"In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet."


"I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows."


"I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one."


"Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire."


"I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer."


"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."


"Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood."


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


"Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946."


"The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do."


"Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse."


"But we did the Pink Panther not in Hollywood, in Italy."


"Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood."


"If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?"


"Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood."
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