Hollywood Quotes - Page 13

• Broadway is such a diverse community. Everybody knows how I believe, and everyone believes, and it's not a big deal. But in Hollywood, if you talk about politics - especially if you're a Republican - or spirituality, it's just not something people want to hear about.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Believe, People, Community

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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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• I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens.

  Tatum O'Neal

  Sex, Party, Drug

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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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• I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.

  Ken Burns

  Drama, Past, Interesting

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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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• Unfortunately, I think I'm going to be typecast in Hollywood as the kid who can cry. I don't like putting audiences through those emotional ups and downs. I don't want people to think Dana Hill is so depressing all she does is cry. But the parts are so good, I can't turn them down.

  Dana Hill

  Depressing, Kids, Emotional

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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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• Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.

  Wilson Mizner

  Time, Made, Caught

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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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• 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

  Publishing House, Agents, Proposal

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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

  Stars, Names, Personality

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• I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look.

  Delta Burke

  New York, Drama, Book

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• Media companies, under the guise of piracy, are asking congress to give them more control over fair use. Hollywood wants to control innovation.

  Joe Kraus

  Media, Giving, Innovation

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• There's a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you're an actor you're somehow not a member of the crew. You're somehow more special. I hate that.

  Rider Strong

  Hate, Real, Special

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• She lies about her age and weight and is slightly older than Rocket. But they've been a couple for eight years, longer than most in Hollywood.

  Kate Jackson

  Funny, Dog, Couple

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• Ive been told that if I lose weight Id have more work, but I refuse to submit myself to Hollywood standards. To the rest of the world I am slim and I like the way I am.

  Liv Tyler

  World, Weight, Slim

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• I would love to act. I probably won't make it to Hollywood at 42 years of age, but I'd love to act.

  Richard Hammond

  Years, Age

  "Richard Hammond: I'm having a mid-life crisis in reverse". www.mirror.co.uk. December 22, 2011.

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• Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.

  R. W. Apple

  War, Glowing, Training

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• Silence is the sure sign that youre on your way out in Hollywood.

  Budd Schulberg

  Silence, Way, Silence Is

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• Acting was just outside of the realm of possibility for me. I grew up in L.A. and around Hollywood but I literally never, honestly, considered it.

  Cody Horn

  Acting, Possibility, Grew Up

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• Eventually I got asked to be in a Michael J. Fox sitcom called High School U.S.A. I didn’t think it was funny and said no. They doubled the money, and that kind of offended me. I realized, oh, that’s right, my opinion means nothing in Hollywood. I’d seen other people compromise, and I felt that once you gave up on what you wanted to do, you couldn’t go back. It was selling out. So I decided to go back to Minneapolis.

  Joel Hodgson

  School, Mean, Thinking

  "'Mystery Science Theater 3000': the Definitive Oral History of a Tv Masterpiece". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. April 22, 14.

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• For a long time I was embarrassed to say I was a 'B' movie actor, ... But now that I see what Hollywood's putting out, I realized 'B' actually means 'better.'

  Bruce Campbell

  Mean, Long, Actors

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