Etta James Quotes
I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.
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That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.
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The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.
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In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
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Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physically, I'm not Latino. I not only am, but there's another 50,000 people who look exactly like me.
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You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
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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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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
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I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
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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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I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care.
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In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played.
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I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because they came in and started directing things like 'Harry Potter.'
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I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's in. So you just think that it's Hollywood stuff or whatever.
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I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am an actor, too.
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Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.
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I wanted to take on my full name, which was sort of a crazy thing to do considering that we're in Hollywood.
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In Hollywood, we have some of the richest unemployed people in the world. They have sun tans. Some of them have chauffeurs in Rolls-Royces waiting outside. They have their golf clubs ready in the car. There is no law that says you cannot play golf while being unemployed.
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Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained orgy farm, its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can find.
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I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.
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The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise By waiting up instead of getting up.
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While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself.
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Why would anybody be a Satanist, anyway? I don’t get it. You can’t believe in Satan without believing in God, and then you’re just picking the wrong side in a big mythic battle thing.
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I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.
