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Hollywood Quotes


"And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press."


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



"The criteria, for me, is movie star. It's Hollywood. Not Somalia."


"You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well."



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


"Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool."


"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."


"So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts."


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


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


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


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


"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."


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


"Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood."


"There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does."


"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."


"After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully."


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


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


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



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


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


"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."


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


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


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


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



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


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


"I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood."


"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."
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