Hollywood Quotes - Page 24

• The problem with Hollywood is that nobody works. They have meals. They go to Pilates. But it's not enough. So they do drugs. If everybody had a pile of rocks in their backyard and spent every day moving them from one side of the yard to the other, it would be a much happier place.

  Ryan Gosling

  Moving, Rocks, Drug

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• Everyone has a warped vision of Hollywood and what success in Hollywood is like.

  Zach Braff

  Vision

  "I've won the indie film lottery" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2004.

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• We are Hollywood. We're entertainment, and that's what the World Wrestling Federation is all about.

  Vince McMahon

  Wrestling, World, Entertainment

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• The Japanese couldn't have been all bad during World War II. Look at all the movies Hollywood was able to make on account of them. The Indians weren't the only bad guys. Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire.

  Pat Morita

  War, History, Guy

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• Astonishing times. Who would have imagined that the Crazy Gang would yield a Hollywood film star (Vinny Jones), a British television ever-present (John Fashanu) and now a televised African dance champion?

  Giles Smith

  Soccer, Football, Stars

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• Hollywood wants to own everything. I don't want to own anything. I don't want people just to make content, I want to empower and teach them to create content they own that they can exploit in any medium.

  Robert Rodriguez

  People, Empowering, Want

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• You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

  Gabrielle

  Losing, Helping, Fear Of Failure

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• Bill Maher is anything but an impartial host. He sucks up to Hollywood liberals because A) he needs to get them back on the show, B) he usually agrees with them, and C) they tend to be wildly ignorant.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Ignorant, Needs, Politics

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• Hollywood's martyr-mythology leaves out the fact that the famed Hollywood Ten, for example, were in fact members of the Communist Party, which advocated the violent overthrow of the U.S. government in violation of the Smith Act and which took orders directly from Moscow.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Party, Government, Order

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• Hollywood's schizophrenia over guns is matched only by their attitude toward taxes. Ever wonder why they film in Vancouver so often? It ain't for the beaches, I can tell you.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Beach, Attitude, Gun

  Greg Gutfeld (2014). “Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You”, p.178, Crown Forum

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• Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.

  Ian Ziering

  Rejection, Let It Go, Goes On

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• You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or lamenting vindictive excesses in sentencing. Hollywood, supposedly a frothing cauldron of liberalism, has always been conservative on crime.

  Tom Shales

  Book, Law, Excess

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• What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is, while the creative community admittedly leans left, Hollywood has become a corporate town.

  Steven Levitan

  Creative, Community, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It rekindles the great Hollywood romances.

  Richard Corliss

  Romance

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• Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.

  Amy Heckerling

  Dream, Factories, Older Women

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. March 20, 2008.

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• At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia...

  Philip Zimbardo

  School, Mafia, Tables

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of winter here.

  Diablo Cody

  Winter, Television, Harbinger

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• I sort of look at some peers of mine and I think, 'No, you've got it all wrong!' I just want to tell them all to have babies and be happy and not get sucked into that Hollywood thing.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Baby, Thinking, Peers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well, I wasnt just kind of standing in a queue at McDonalds and someone sat down and said, Youre the director of a $100 million Hollywood movie. Ive been working in commercials for ten years.

  Rupert Sanders

  Mcdonalds, Years, Directors

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• The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I never did see a meager Hollywood caper called Youngblood Hawke, vaguely based on my 800-page novel. So it was that I opted for television, with its much broader time limits, for The Winds of War.

  Herman Wouk

  War, Wind, Mutiny

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• Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right.

  Mike Royko

  Political, Duty

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• Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

  Mike Royko

  Likes, Boast, Conscience

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• Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

  Mike Royko

  Strong, Powerful, Impact

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• I never took to Hollywood.

  Kathleen Turner

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• Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

  David Mamet

  Eagles, Ideas, Mitzvah

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