Richard O'Brien Quotes
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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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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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I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.
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Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.
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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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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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Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.
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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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Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.
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My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.
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In Hollywood, there is no bigger commitment you can make than to a TV series. Even marriages pale in comparison. Marriages don't require signing iron-clad multiyear contracts. At least, most first marriages don't.
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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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I do think that Hillary Clinton risks looking like she's imitating Elizabeth Warren when she starts doing it. She'll look like Elizabeth the second. And nobody is electing anybody a second of anything.
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There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I don't seek them out, but people tend to think of me for that particular archetype, or whatever you want to call it, and I don't mind it. I think there is a strength to it.
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You don't have a soul; you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body, or your mind. You are you.
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Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.
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Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.
