Hollywood Quotes

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  Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Money

  Quoted in Marilyn Monroe in Her OwnWords (1990)

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  I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

  Andy Warhol

  Beautiful, Artist, Commercial Art

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  If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.

  George A. Romero

  Writing, Bucks, Statistics

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• Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.

  Bonnie Hunt

  Care, Company

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.

  David Mamet

  Sinkholes, Monasteries, Aesthetic

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

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• Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams

  John Huston

  Dream, Cages, Hollywood Stars

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  The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Funny, Cute, Movie

  1954 In the Journal American, 22 Feb.

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• In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Success, Marriage

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

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• Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.

  Erica Jong

  Funny, God, California

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Marlon Brando

  Movie, Film History, Hollywood Films

  "Fictional character: Don Vito Corleone". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. March 14, 1972.

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• It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

  Lana Turner

  Movie, Forgiveness, Forgiving

  Lana Turner (1982). “Lana--the lady, the legend, the truth”, Dutton Adult

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  Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality

  Grace Kelly

  Reality, Devil, Holier Than Thou

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

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• You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.

  Michael Jackson

  Vacation, People, Way

  "Michael Jackson-Turned White From Disease-Vitiligo! Tragic!". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, ireport.cnn.com. February 10, 1993.

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• I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Thinking, Competition, Majority

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• In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.

  Allan Sherman

  Funny, California, World

  Allan Sherman (1965). “A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman”

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• In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

  Gabrielle

  Kind, Failing, Expected

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• I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets.

  Judd Apatow

  Thinking, Trying, Retreat

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• I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.

  Jerry Falwell

  Thinking, Two, Actors

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• A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

  Douglas Sirk

  Directors, Wanted, My Time

  "The Essentials: Douglas Sirk", www.indiewire.com. April 26, 2013.

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• I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.

  Ned Beatty

  Want, God Bless, Strikes

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• If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.

  Jimmy Cliff

  People, Fantastic, Plastic

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

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• Broke is a Hollywood term!

  David Geffen

  Broke, Term

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• Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.

  Gregory Harrison

  Musical, Festivals, Firsts

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• When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood.

  Jeffrey Hunter

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• I'll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Actors, Being The Best, Hardest

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

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