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"I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood."
Skitch Henderson
"I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood."
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"All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely."
Edmund Wilson
"All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely."
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"In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests."
Max von Sydow
"In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests."
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"There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard."
James Caan
"There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard."
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"Broke is a Hollywood term!"
David Geffen
"Broke is a Hollywood term!"
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"Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch."
Jason Patric
"Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch."
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"I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals."
Julie Harris
"I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals."
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"The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios."
Gene Tierney
"The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios."
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"Hollywood wants press, any kind of press."
Christopher Atkins
"Hollywood wants press, any kind of press."
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"In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture."
Erich von Stroheim
"In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture."
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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."
Patrick Stewart
"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 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."
Channing Tatum
"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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"Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures."
Drew Carey
"Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures."
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"It seems the farther away we are from Hollywood, the better the ratings."
Martin Milner
"It seems the farther away we are from Hollywood, the better the ratings."
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"Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation."
Walter Winchell
"Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation."
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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."
Laura Dern
"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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"I find Hollywood really toxic."
Rachel Weisz
"I find Hollywood really toxic."
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"I've seen it too many times in Hollywood. Talking about a relationship in public can jinx it. And if you have your picture taken together, you might as well start packing your bags."
Gina Gershon
"I've seen it too many times in Hollywood. Talking about a relationship in public can jinx it. And if you have your picture taken together, you might as well start packing your bags."
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"Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad."
Morgan Brittany
"Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad."
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"There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress."
Eva Gabor
"There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress."
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"In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world."
Allan Sherman
"In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world."
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"And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days."
Kitty Carlisle
"And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days."
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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."
Richard Linklater
"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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"I would rather have gotten married than have a Hollywood contract."
Jennifer O'Neill
"I would rather have gotten married than have a Hollywood contract."
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"An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer."
Fred Allen
"An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer."
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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."
Gerard Butler
"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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"My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out."
Leigh Steinberg
"My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out."
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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."
Roy Rogers
"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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"Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting."
Lorna Luft
"Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting."
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"In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet."
Will Smith
"In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet."
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"I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows."
Peter Falk
"I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows."
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"I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one."
Jean-Marie Messier
"I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one."
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"Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire."
Yahoo Serious
"Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire."
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"I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer."
Jamie Farr
"I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer."
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"I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit."
Tony Goldwyn
"I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit."
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"Hollywood is kind of a bad world."
Mia Maestro
"Hollywood is kind of a bad world."
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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."
Larry Wachowski
"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 didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood."
Billy Wilder
"Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood."
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"I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it."
Christopher Atkins
"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."
Burt Lancaster
"Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946."
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"The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do."
Josh Schwartz
"The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do."
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"If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy."
Roger Ebert
"If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy."
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"Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It's not going to do me any good."
James Woods
"Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It's not going to do me any good."
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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."
Cesar Romero
"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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"But we did the Pink Panther not in Hollywood, in Italy."
Claudia Cardinale
"But we did the Pink Panther not in Hollywood, in Italy."
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"Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood."
Richard O'Brien
"Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood."
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"If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?"
Jon Voight
"If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?"
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"Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood."
Budd Schulberg
"Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood."
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"Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything."
Bruce Davison
"Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything."
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"Hollywood is a world all its own."
Moira Kelly
"Hollywood is a world all its own."
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