Hollywood Quotes - Page 11

• It's so nice after 10 years as a blond actress in Hollywood to have people let you do smart things.

  Emily Procter

  Nice, Smart, Years

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

  Skitch Henderson

  Easter, Television, Coast

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• There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.

  Matt Stone

  Smugness, Aggravating

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

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• I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood.

  Paz Vega

  Spain, Pieces, West

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• The flood will lift the ghosts from the Hollywood lawn cemetery and they will disappear like ether in the now dead air. All the names will be erased from the billboards and the theatres and the piers and the magazines and the monuments. You live by myths of immortality, and your myths are not safe.

  Robert Montgomery

  Air, Names, Theatre

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• I arrived in Hollywood and lived much of my life in America, but the fans did not really know me.

  Persis Khambatta

  America, Fans, Know Me

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• Alan Ladd was a marvelous person in his simplicity. In so many ways we were kindred spirits. We both were professionally conceived through Hollywood's search for box office and the types to insure the box office. And we were both little people. Alan wasn't as short as most people believe. It was true that in certain films Alan would climb a small platform or the girl worked in a slit trench. We had no such problems together.

  Veronica Lake

  Girl, Believe, Office

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

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• At the end. First start off and do your youth thing In Hollywood and then go to New York later. But it wound up being later, later than I thought it was going to be.

  Delta Burke

  New York, Firsts, Youth

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• Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that.

  Lyn Nofziger

  War, People, Political

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• Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Thinking, Errors, Expression

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• Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA.

  Jack Valenti

  Spring, Dna

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

  Skitch Henderson

  House, Demise, Orchestra

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• We are increasingly offered a diet [by Hollywood] in which sensation, not story, is king.

  Beeban Kidron

  Kings, Stories, Diets

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• You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.

  Priscilla Presley

  Mother, Father, Dating

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• The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal.

  Kieran Culkin

  Divorce, Blame, Problem

  "The Young And `The Mighty' / Youthful stars Culkin and Henson are veterans of showbiz". Interview with Ruthe Stein, www.sfgate.com. October 11, 1998.

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• I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.

  Leonard Maltin

  Thinking, People, Sentimental

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• Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.

  Yahoo Serious

  Real, Office, Devil

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins.

  Mike Leigh

  Eye, Choices, Steel

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

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• A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific.

  Nick Mancuso

  Jobs, Independent, Night

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A cigarette in the hands of a Hollywood star onscreen is a gun aimed at a 12- or 14-year-old.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Stars, Gun, Hands

  "Hollywood's Responsibility for Smoking Deaths" by Joe Eszterhas, www.nytimes.com. August 9, 2002.

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• Everybody told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place they said I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was that no one would quite know what to do with me.

  Persis Khambatta

  Careers, Bigs, Said

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• I think I've developed into an actress because I've worked darn hard at it and I've learned a great deal from a lot of gifted people. And if I have nothing else to show for my life, apart from a scrapbook full of cuttings, I have the knowledge that my early days in Hollywood weren't in vain.

  Veronica Lake

  Cutting, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I see no hope for a revival among God's people today. They are so enamored and so cluttered up with Hollywood and newspapers and magazines and parties and bowling alleys and camping trips and everything else. How in the world are they going to get still long enough to see anything from God?

  Lester Roloff

  Party, Long, People

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• I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you.

  Andre Benjamin

  Father, Kids, Cowboy

  "Rapped up in tweed" by Simon Mills, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2008.

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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

  Names, Thirty, Starlets

  "Colombo's Hollywood: wit and wisdom of the moviemakers". Book by John Robert Colombo, p. 150, 1979.

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