Hollywood Quotes - Page 10

• Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.

  Erica Jong

  Funny, God, California

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.

  Walter Huston

  Simple, Years, Voice

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.

  Michael Jackson

  Vacation, People, Way

  "Michael Jackson-Turned White From Disease-Vitiligo! Tragic!". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, ireport.cnn.com. February 10, 1993.

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• I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Marlon Brando

  Movie, Film History, Hollywood Films

  "Fictional character: Don Vito Corleone". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. March 14, 1972.

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• The radical rightwing pegs Hollywood as a leftist town, which is completely wrong. There are a lot of actors, writers, and directors who talk a liberal agenda... but all the studio bosses, for as long as there have been studios, have all been as far rightwing as you can possibly imagine.

  Paul Haggis

  Long, Boss, Towns

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• Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.

  Bonnie Hunt

  Care, Company

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Ask anyone in America where the craziest people live and they'll tell you California. Ask anyone in California where the craziest people live and they'll say Los Angeles. Ask anyone in Los Angeles where the craziest people live and they'll tell you Hollywood. Ask anyone in Hollywood where the craziest people live and they'll say Laurel Canyon. And ask anyone in Laurel Canyon where the craziest people live and they'll say Lookout Mountain. So I bought a house on Lookout Mountain.

  Joni Mitchell

  California, America, People

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• When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet new people, have new experiences. When I see Hollywood formulas mindlessly repeated, a little something dies inside of me: I have lost two hours to boors who insist on telling me stories I have heard before.

  Roger Ebert

  New Experiences, Two, People

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.

  Nathan Lane

  Goes On, Knows

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.

  Allan Sherman

  Funny, California, World

  Allan Sherman (1965). “A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman”

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• Broke is a Hollywood term!

  David Geffen

  Broke, Term

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• I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets.

  Judd Apatow

  Thinking, Trying, Retreat

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• When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood.

  Jeffrey Hunter

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• In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

  Gabrielle

  Kind, Failing, Expected

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• I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.

  Ned Beatty

  Want, God Bless, Strikes

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• If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.

  Jimmy Cliff

  People, Fantastic, Plastic

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.

  Gregory Harrison

  Musical, Festivals, Firsts

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• I'll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Actors, Being The Best, Hardest

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Thinking, Competition, Majority

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• I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.

  Jerry Falwell

  Thinking, Two, Actors

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• A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

  Douglas Sirk

  Directors, Wanted, My Time

  "The Essentials: Douglas Sirk", www.indiewire.com. April 26, 2013.

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• My dad has been married to his wife for 15 years and wherever he goes there better be a seat for her. I like real couples that tell you how to get through on Wednesdays when you're just at the end of your rope - the ones who really know how to make it through. We have to stop looking at Hollywood couples because you're going to get disappointed.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Couple, Dad, Real

  "5 Questions with Sherri Shepherd on Love and Happiness". Interview with Charli Penn, www.essence.com. September 13, 2011.

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• The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

  Patti Smith

  Communication, Artist, Engagement

  "'Even as a child, I felt like an alien'". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

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• In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.

  Will Smith

  Motivational, Confidence, Attitude

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• I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.

  Will Smith

  Love, America, Black

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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