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Hollywood Quotes


"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."


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


"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."


"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."


"And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood."


"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."


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


"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."


"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."


"I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks."


"It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out."


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


"Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world."


"Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department."


"In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies."


"I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard."


"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."


"Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle."


"You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood."



"Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story."


"I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest."


"I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios."
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