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Hollywood Quotes


"How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?"


"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."



"Because someone stole Gregory Peck's star on Hollywood Blvd., I have hired a Brink's guard to protect my star!"


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


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


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


"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."


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


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


"In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly."


"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."


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


"In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings."



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


"The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening."


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


"Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool."


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


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


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


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


"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."



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


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


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


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


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



"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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