Virginia Madsen Quotes
Dune was really my first Hollywood job. It was such a small part, but I opened the movie. I was about 19 years old and I had to make this speech, and I didn't understand most of the words because they were, you know, words from Dune.
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That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.
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It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.
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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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I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.
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I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.
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I've been working hard: lots of therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, yoga too.
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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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Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
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In 2011, I was in Hollywood peddling 'Sicario' to constant and resounding 'no's. Texas was suffering the worst drought on record. Wildfires spread across West Texas, burning some 4 million acres and 3,000 homes. While the urban centers in Texas were experiencing an economic boom, West Texas was collapsing under the weight of drought and fires.
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I'm not a party guy, and I'm not a Hollywood guy, either.
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Tears at times have the weight of speech.
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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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Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.
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A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
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Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.
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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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It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before.
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I just look at myself and think about what I can do to help the team. That's what everyone should be doing.
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Twitter makes me feel like I have friends all over.
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Dune was really my first Hollywood job. It was such a small part, but I opened the movie. I was about 19 years old and I had to make this speech, and I didn't understand most of the words because they were, you know, words from Dune.
