Hollywood Quotes
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Hollywood! It’s like an old chair – if it’s useful, keep it; if not, give it to Goodwill.
Sylvia Sidney
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I believe 'Hollywood' is more like middle America than many people imagine.
Steven Levitan
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
Bette Davis
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Hollywood was already changing when I went there in 1968. I love American directors. I would love to work for Francis Ford Coppola or Martin Scorsese. But they don't need European actresses.
Catherine Deneuve
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In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.
Marilyn Monroe
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I think it's good to have a nice, healthy group of people all doing different things. A lot of my friends don't even work in Hollywood; they just happen to live in L.A.
Topher Grace
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I am a child of Hollywood and dreams. To me, to be on the red carpet is the best place in the world.
Steven Cojocaru
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There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood.
Roland Emmerich
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Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
Bette Davis
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In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.
Erich von Stroheim
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My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.
Robert Vaughn
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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.
Suzanne Fields
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I was disillusioned by Hollywood at the time, but now I've come to accept that's just the way things are: it's called show business, not show art.
Jean Seberg
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I'd rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don't know what's coming up for me, my ambition is not to be typecast. So I'm working on my English accent, as well as my American one. I don't want to be like 'Okay, I'm French, and I want to succeed in Hollywood!'
Eva Green
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When people refer to me as a 'regular' girl...it's code word for 'fat' in Hollywood....But...my body has chosen its shape. I'd rather be strong than skinny.
Anne Hathaway
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I think for Wes Anderson and me, the most important thing was James L. Brooks producing our first movie and giving us a chance to come to Hollywood, because without him, we might never have gotten the chance.
Owen Wilson
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What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait...
Hattie McDaniel
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When I first got into this biz called show, I decided I was going to change my name, make it more Hollywood. And you know how you do that? You take your middle name and the first street that you ever lived on. So when I first started, I actually went by Sue Rural Route 2.
Bonnie McFarlane
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The political vibe of late-'40s Hollywood through the mid-'50s is something we're seeing a lot of echoes of right now, and in a scary way, where I'm wishing for an Edward R. Murrow to stand up and start somehow calling people on stuff. But as far as the way the industry works, I feel like we're in a place where you see companies slowly moving back to only doing their own stuff.
Ed Brubaker
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I think it is important to make sure that I have my real life as well, because Hollywood can certainly seem like an alternate reality sometimes.
Paul Dano
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Hollywood always likes to create a star.
Nicole Holofcener
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My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very difficult to get work so when I was born they put me into dance classes and singing classes as soon as I could walk actually.
Morgan Brittany
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I don't think Hollywood respects multi-camera television. Well, I don't think they disrespect it, but I don't think it gets respect for its artistry.
Simon Helberg
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The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.
Seth Godin