Hollywood Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• The farm was a great place to grow up, but I preferred the Hollywood Hills. My aunt looked like Lucille Ball and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was intelligent enough to understand I would never be like her.

  Sandra Lerner

  Beautiful, Growing Up, Aunt

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• I'm the barbarian of Hollywood.

  John Milius

  Barbarians

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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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• If you've got a huge Hollywood star in your film, they're getting $32 million, and everyone else gets their bus fare.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Stars, Film, Bus

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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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• The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

  Ben Hecht

  Honor, Dubious, Cuffs

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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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• 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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• I mean, the Lakers are pretty damn Hollywood.

  Jerry Buss

  Mean, Lakers, Damn

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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 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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• Don't say yes until I've finished talking. - Attributed to many Hollywood executives Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

  Kin Hubbard

  Work, Destiny, Talking

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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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• I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America.

  Renny Harlin

  America, Decided

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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