Richard Preston Quotes

Fox bought the rights to the book way back when, and there was this attempt by Fox to make a movie out of 'The Hot Zone,' and it tended tragically in a Hollywood disaster involving Robert Redford and Jodie Foster and Ridley Scott. But the rights have been sitting at Fox ever since.

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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
  • Beauty
  • Hollywood
  • Sort

• That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Old
  • Now
  • Hollywood

• 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

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

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Trying
  • Balance
  • Hollywood

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

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Me
  • Film
  • Special

• 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
  • Hollywood
  • Texas

• 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

• Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.

  

  Sally Field
  • Never
  • Hollywood
  • Ever

• I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Hollywood
  • Belong
  • Rat

• I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Idea
  • Understand
  • Hollywood

• I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Me
  • Hollywood
  • Photograph

• 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.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • You
  • Commitment
  • Hollywood

• It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • True
  • Movie
  • Hand

• 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
  • Know
  • Pain
  • Moral

• Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Hollywood
  • Toward
  • Idiocy

• When I moved to Los Angeles, I was cooking with two guys who became celebrity chefs, if you will. I became their sous chef for awhile. We'd go to all the big names in Hollywood.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Cooking
  • Celebrity
  • Hollywood

• In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Like
  • Thought
  • Hollywood

• Everyone has a warped vision of Hollywood and what success in Hollywood is like.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Success
  • Vision
  • Hollywood

• There's nothing the matter with Hollywood that a good earthquake couldn't cure.

  

  Moss Hart
  • Matter
  • Hollywood
  • Earthquakes

• Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Die
  • New York
  • Reputation

• If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Want
  • Me
  • Celebrity

• Critical thinking relies on content, because you can't navigate masses of information if you have nothing to navigate to.

  

  Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
  • Information
  • Content
  • Critical

• Fox bought the rights to the book way back when, and there was this attempt by Fox to make a movie out of 'The Hot Zone,' and it tended tragically in a Hollywood disaster involving Robert Redford and Jodie Foster and Ridley Scott. But the rights have been sitting at Fox ever since.

  

  Richard Preston
  • Hollywood
  • Attempt
  • Involving