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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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"I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening."
Brittany Murphy
"I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening."
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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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"I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star."
Kim Novak
"I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star."
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"I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter."
Glenn Danzig
"I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter."
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"I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood."
Eric Cantona
"I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood."
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"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."
Lara Flynn Boyle
"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."
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"And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood."
Skitch Henderson
"And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood."
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"I never took to Hollywood."
Kathleen Turner
"I never took to Hollywood."
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"I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood."
Eddie Bracken
"I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood."
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"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."
Sherilyn Fenn
"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."
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"I don't think about Hollywood at all."
Alex Cox
"I don't think about Hollywood at all."
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"What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait."
Hattie McDaniel
"What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait."
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"There are thousands of directors in Hollywood."
Penelope Spheeris
"There are thousands of directors in Hollywood."
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"There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both."
Roland Emmerich
"There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both."
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"After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully."
Maureen O'Hara
"After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully."
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"I don't think I ever understood Hollywood."
Gloria Grahame
"I don't think I ever understood Hollywood."
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"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."
McLean Stevenson
"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."
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"Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism."
Bette Davis
"Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism."
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"Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood."
David Hockney
"Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood."
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"Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche."
Leigh Steinberg
"Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche."
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"I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks."
Jerry Mathers
"I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks."
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"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."
Laura Hillenbrand
"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."
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"The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles."
Steve Guttenberg
"The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles."
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"I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London."
Leslie Caron
"I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London."
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"I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years."
David Ogden Stiers
"I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years."
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"My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that."
Tony Goldwyn
"My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that."
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"Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world."
Lionel Barrymore
"Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world."
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"In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel."
Ben Hecht
"In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel."
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"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."
Ann Sothern
"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."
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"Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet."
Sam Elliott
"Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet."
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"In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies."
Conrad Veidt
"In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies."
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"I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard."
Rachel Ward
"I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard."
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"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."
Brenda Blethyn
"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."
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"Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle."
Victor Mature
"Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle."
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"I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal."
Gloria Steinem
"I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal."
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"You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood."
Tom Selleck
"You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood."
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"Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story."
Chris Farley
"Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story."
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"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."
Laura Hillenbrand
"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."
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"Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs."
Gregory Harrison
"Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs."
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"I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios."
Skitch Henderson
"I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios."
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