Hollywood Quotes
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My first ten years in Hollywood were really tough. I'd be coaching friends who came to me for acting advice, and then they'd make it before I did. I'd still be helping them while they were on movie sets and I had four lines on a TV show.
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Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes.
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If you asked central casting in Hollywood for somebody to play the role of President, they'd send you John Connally.
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There are many projects I couldn't get off the ground because they didn't have white heroes. It's a problem that everyone who's been working in Hollywood has been facing.
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I remember saying to my agent, "Listen, everybody's going out to Hollywood and making movies. I think I ought to go out there." And his advice to me was, "I wouldn't do that if I were you. If they want you in Hollywood, they'll send you." And sure enough, they did.
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I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.
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That's one of the problems with Hollywood. It'll say 'policeman,' and an unless it says 'black policeman,' a lot of times you won't even get the opportunity to read for it, which is kind of crazy, but that's the way it is.
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In leaving Hollywood and coming to New York, I feel I can be more myself. After all, if I can't be myself, what's the good of being anything at all?
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If Hollywood is the global producer for media products all around the world, that's of concern. If all audiences around the world know of America is what they see from Hollywood, then we're in trouble.
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For success in Hollywood you must have a special competitive spirit. I do not have it.
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I saw how you could get away with such a free-spirited, naturalistic sensibility in a mainstream Hollywood movie, and you could apply a lot of the skills of the '70s icons that I really admire to a contemporary, commercial movie.
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I don't play Hollywood maids, the hee-hee kind of people who are so in love with their madam's children they have no time for their own.
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Hollywood is a land of self-invention.
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I won`t buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.
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I want to be able to work on a project that will give people around the world the chance to represent their own people, their own culture, their own stories, rather than just Hollywood - really, you know, dominated Hollywood. And that's a dream of mine.
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Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.
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I made my first film on 16mm. Then I began using 35mm.Then I began working in Hollywood. And I began to really understand how films were made by professionals. I have to say I wasn't very impressed.
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The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.
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I never knew until I came here to Hollywood that somebody could be really nice to you for years and really hate your guts. Happens all the time here.
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I came back to Utah to get away from Hollywood.
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Friends come in herds and they leave in herds. Hollywood loves an adventure, but you have to hit bottom. Then they love to save you and be a part of it. Or think they're a part of it.
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Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.
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As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene.
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Hollywood is portrayed in this super glamorous way, but when I see pictures of actresses going off the rails, it doesn't surprise me at all.
