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.
Etta James
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I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.
Octavia Spencer
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That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.
Warren Beatty
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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.
Dan Jenkins
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In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
Gabrielle Union
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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.
Carlos Ponce
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You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
Hank Williams
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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.
Nazanin Boniadi
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
Walt Whitman
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I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
Radha Mitchell
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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.
Patrick Marber
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I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care.
Adam Carolla
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In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played.
Madeline Kahn
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That's the beautiful part about acting - you get to play somebody other than yourself. So, I'm open to people who can't sing, people who can, people that sing a little bit, or people that sing a lot.
Brandy
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Be Somebody who makes Everybody feel like a Somebody.
Brad Montague
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A lot of my songs, they're like puzzle pieces, and there's just one way to put them together. You could, if you needed to, get the scissors out and cut up things to make them work. But I don't want to do that.
Ryan Adams
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I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
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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.
Etta James
