Hollywood Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

  Michael Medved

  Spiritual, Challenges, Dimensions

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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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• What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even minimal originality.

  Kenneth Turan

  Wise, Romance, Derivatives

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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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• Some people in Hollywood think of me as a model for dramatic midlife transitions: suburban housewife to Emmy-winning actress. But I never plotted out a master plan for following my dreams.

  Kathryn Joosten

  Dream, Winning, Thinking

  "Kathryn Joosten obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2012.

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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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• Hollywood is yesterday, forever catching up tomorrow with what's happening today.

  Vito Russo

  Yesterday, Forever, Today

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• Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading dead zone of exhaustion, inertia, and brilliant decay.

  Arthur Kroker

  Space, Black, Decay

  Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker, David Cook (1989). “Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene”

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• Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.

  Alex Cox

  Careers, Negative, Universal

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• Well, it's a lot less dangerous - working with snakes and mountaibn lions and dangerous animals - than working in Hollywood [laughs]. Hollwood will kill you.

  Bernie Krause

  Animal, Snakes, Laughing

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• There is this idea in Hollywood, and I've seen it work for people, where the unspoken rule is 'Do two for them and one for yourself.' And that's kind of considered a fact. I've never really found that to be true for me. I've gotten more opportunities out of working on things I believed in than I ever did on things that weren't special to me.

  Ryan Gosling

  Opportunity, Ideas, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

  Gavin Bryars

  Technology, Europe, Cds

  Klassiknet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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• I was truly thrilled when Alex-Zsolt played for my tribute concert titled, 'A Tribute to Richard M. Sherman.'  This special concert event was held at Disney's Historic El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, CA.   Alex was great and he played my songs very musically and in supercalifragilisticexpialidocious style!

  Richard M. Sherman

  Song, Style, Theatre

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• At times I think I actually hate Hollywood. I have many acquaintances there, but few friends.

  Grace Kelly

  Hate, Thinking, Few Friends

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

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• I was minding my own business, really, and then all of a sudden, Hollywood approached me.

  Kelly Brook

  Minding My Own Business, My Own, Own Business

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• Johnny Rivers...returned to L.A. to accept a lucrative offer from Elmer Valentine to open at his lavish new nightclub based upon the popular European discotheque concept. Johnny Rivers at the Whisky A Go-Go turned Hollywood upside down. His first Imperial album, "Johnny Rivers At The Whisky A Go-Go," (produced by Lou Adler) was high in the charts for 45 weeks in 1964.

  Glenn A. Baker

  Valentine, Rivers, Albums

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• He wanted us to play whatever we played in the most characteristic and appropriate style. Even it was the theme from 'The Godfather,' you needed to play that then the way that a Hollywood producer would expect it to be played. Whether it was that or the posthorn solo from Mahler's Symphony No. 3, he would expect that to be played in the way that Leonard Bernstein wanted to hear it. In retrospect, I think it was a sensational way to teach this particular group of students. By the time you graduated you could absolutely read anything with any trumpet.

  Manny Laureano

  Thinking, Play, Symphony

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• It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

  Jerry Della Femina

  Winning, Dying, Oscars

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• I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

  Patrick Stewart

  Good Luck, Roles, Television

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• My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspirational, Boston, Citizens

  "R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015)" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. February 27, 2015.

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