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.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Old
  • Now
  • Hollywood

• It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Religious
  • Speech
  • Charming

• The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Believe
  • Place
  • Ocean

• In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Kind
  • Hollywood
  • Fail

• 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.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Confidence
  • Better
  • Thanks

• I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Up
  • Hollywood
  • Got

• I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Trying
  • Balance
  • Hollywood

• Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Work
  • Hollywood
  • Italy

• I've been working hard: lots of therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, yoga too.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Yoga
  • Speech
  • Working Hard

• I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Me
  • Film
  • Special

• Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • You
  • Hollywood
  • Observation

• Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Speech

• Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Enough
  • Hollywood
  • Pictures

• 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?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Why
  • Me
  • Forever

• 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.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Suffering
  • Texas
  • Hollywood

• I'm not a party guy, and I'm not a Hollywood guy, either.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Guy
  • Party
  • Hollywood

• Tears at times have the weight of speech.

  

  Ovid
  • Tears
  • Speech
  • Weight

• You know why they think I'm reclusive? I don't do the Hollywood stuff. I've never been on the circuit.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Why
  • Think
  • Know

• We all exist in similar systems that mirror and reproduce the same American culture for the most part. What Oscar Wilde said about the lucky author who has a non-literary day job no longer holds, if it ever did. Artists seek validation as much as they seek money. The creation and invention of culture and canon is where most of the trouble lies.

  

  Fady Joudah
  • Money
  • Job
  • American

• I've always wanted to do a movie, and I really feel the urge to do it.I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Business
  • Movie
  • Hollywood

• At the beginning of the troubles of Saint Domingo, I felt that I was destined to great things. When I received this divine intimation, I was four and fifty years of age; I could neither read nor write.

  

  Toussaint Louverture
  • Age
  • Beginning
  • Divine

• There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Brain
  • Child
  • Face

• The winner asks, "May I help?" The loser asks, "Do you expect me to do that?"

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Positive
  • Attitude
  • Helping

• 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.

  

  Virginia Madsen
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