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Hollywood Quotes


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


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


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


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


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


"I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter."


"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."


"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."


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


"Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath."


"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."


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


"I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening."


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


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


"I don't even take myself seriously, so how could I possibly take Hollywood seriously?"


"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."


"I tell you, I'm really not what you'd call into your basic kink, even though we do live in Hollywood, which is a little bit like living in a box of granola."


"Working in Hollywood can be tumultuous, with incredible highs and lows and you need to be grounded."


"I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it."


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


"Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood."


"Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche."


"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."


"I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd."


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


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


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


"Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left."


"The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles."


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