Hollywood Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.

  Eva Gabor

  Way, Actresses

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• This Golden Globe nomination is sweet validation for the years of hard work it took to bring Coraline to life using stop-motion animation with the greatest crew of animators, artists, and technicians I've ever been privileged to work with. I share this nomination with all of them and we all share our thanks to the Hollywood Foreign Press.

  Henry Selick

  Sweet, Hard Work, Artist

  "Neil Gaiman, Others React to Golden Globe Animation Noms" by Steve Fritz, www.newsarama.com. December 15, 2009.

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• So for front-runners we have a black and a woman. It's like being made to choose between syphilis or having and old man crap on your face. I would do the country a favor and run myself but I couldn't deprive Hollywood of me for 4 years.

  Zach Braff

  Running, Country, Men

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• After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.

  Sue Grafton

  Tired, Apology, Years

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• My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.

  James Woods

  Attitude, Snow, Complaining

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• On Hollywood turning its back on him: I wasn't in the club. You see, I'm not going to be a stroker. I never have been all my life.

  Mickey Rooney

  Life, Clubs, Has Beens

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• Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Life, Zoos, Women

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

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• What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing.

  Alejandro Amenabar

  Mean, People, Exciting

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• I'm a straight lady, the best in Hollywood. There is an art to playing the straight role. You must build up your man, but never top him, never steal the laughs.

  Margaret Dumont

  Art, Men, Laughing

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• Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees.

  Weegee

  Tree, Jersey, Newark

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• I made my first film on 16mm. Then I began using 35mm.Then I began working in Hollywood. And I began to really understand how films were made by professionals. I have to say I wasn't very impressed.

  Mike Figgis

  Firsts, Film, Made

  Mike Figgis (2012). “Digital Film-Making”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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