Jean Seberg Quotes
I was disillusioned by Hollywood at the time, but now I've come to accept that's just the way things are: it's called show business, not show art.
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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
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In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
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I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.
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I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.
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Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
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A lot of the things that loved ones say to each other, friends would never accept.
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The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.
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If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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You know why they think I'm reclusive? I don't do the Hollywood stuff. I've never been on the circuit.
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First of all, I'm Middle Eastern; I'm Iranian, so to be playing a leading role in a big Hollywood movie, I think, is possibly one of the first times.
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Hollywood's not knocking on our door. They're banging down the door with a sledgehammer.
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The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.
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Whenever there's negotiations, there's things that you absolutely love, and there's things that you accept.
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I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.
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I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.
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The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.
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It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.
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I'm not that type of musician where I can sit down at the piano and work out a song; I actually really enjoy that process of sitting with somebody and having nothing and then suddenly something starts appearing. You struggle with it, and then suddenly a song starts to appear. Then, you've got to try and muscle it - there's that word again - into something and you do. You tussle with it and play with it and roll around with it and suddenly, magically, something appears.
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I was disillusioned by Hollywood at the time, but now I've come to accept that's just the way things are: it's called show business, not show art.
