Anne Fontaine Quotes
Hollywood is still the cradle of many myths, including the one of eternal youth. I find it odd that the very notion of desire, when applied to a woman over 40, is turned into a pathology or a mockery in a number of films. But Hollywood is not the only place to blame, by far. This is just a rendition, possibly magnified by the power of movies, of a general state of things, social, cultural and political.
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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.
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This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.
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I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.
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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 will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
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Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
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The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
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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 was obsessed with Hollywood from the time I was a kid. I always knew I wanted to live in Los Angeles.
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I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.
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I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!
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It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.
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Hollywood does tend to portray CIA officers as totally the honey trap. Looks matter as they do in any profession. But the most important thing for me when I was working was blending into my environment.
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I don't go to a lot of parties or do a lot of going out within, like, the Hollywood circle or celebrity-type circles and things like that.
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Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.
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I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
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Hollywood is still the cradle of many myths, including the one of eternal youth. I find it odd that the very notion of desire, when applied to a woman over 40, is turned into a pathology or a mockery in a number of films. But Hollywood is not the only place to blame, by far. This is just a rendition, possibly magnified by the power of movies, of a general state of things, social, cultural and political.
