Hollywood Quotes - Page 13

• In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.

  Hoagy Carmichael

  Rainbow, Composer

  Hoagy Carmichael (1946). “The stardust road”

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• Hollywood has to start finding more original stuff They've got to start by not depending on, 'What can we churn back out? How can we regurgitate this?' That's why I want to redo the feel of Transformers. That's why I wanted to start with a new cast. You want it to feel fresh, and you want to make it feel different than the other three.

  Michael Bay

  Different, Three, Want

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• You'll never learn to act in Hollywood. Not in a thousand years.

  Margaret Sullavan

  Years, Thousand, Thousand Years

  "Child of Fate - Margaret Sullavan". Book by Lawrence J. Quirk (p. 77), 1986.

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• I still hate making pictures! And I don't like Hollywood any better. I detest the limelight and love simplicity, and in Hollywood the only thing that matters is the hullabaloo of fame. If Hollywood will let me alone to find my way without forcing me and rushing me into things, I probably will change my feelings about it. But at present Hollywood seems utterly horrible and interfering and consuming. Which is why I want to leave it as soon as I am able.

  Margaret Sullavan

  Hate, Rushing, Simplicity

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• Perhaps I'll get used to this bizarre place called Hollywood, but I doubt it.

  Margaret Sullavan

  Doubt, Bizarre, Used

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

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• I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

  Jackie Collins

  Writing, Thinking, Vanity

  "That storybook career isn't fiction" by Larry Keller, www.cnn.com. October 20, 2000.

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• People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

  Jackie Collins

  Thinking, People, Together

  "'Jackie Collins' testing for regular spot on talk show circuit" by Ron Tank, www.cnn.com. July 10, 1998.

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• My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Running, Country, Comedian

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• Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.

  Bette Davis

  Mother, Years, Experience

  1962 Advertisement placed in the Hollywood trade papers.

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• Screenwriting is a terrible way to make a living and I always try to talk anyone out of it. Until you sit in a story meeting with studio executives with no particular ability or actors who haven't even graduated high school telling you exactly how to change your script, you haven't experienced what it's really like to be a screenwriter in Hollywood. Also, unlike novelists and playwrights, you don't own the copyright on your original material. It hurts when you sell a project you love and then suddenly the project you really cared about will never see the light of day.

  Amy Holden Jones

  Hurt, School, Light

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• In Hollywood, story content of movies follows a hierarchy of power, not the relative quality of various ideas. Hollywood does not lack for quality writing. It's just that quality writing commonly has to be sacrificed in order to propel a film into production. A studio needs a star and a director to make a film, so those are the folk who'll define the content. If they don't have the same creative sensibilities, then the content will change.

  Terry Rossio

  Stars, Writing, Order

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• I want to submit to you tonight that this country is not gospel-hardened; it is gospel-ignorant because most of its preachers are. And let me repeat this: the malady in this country is not liberal politicians, the root of socialism, Hollywood, or anything else; it is the so-called evangelical pastor, preacher, and evangelist of our day. That is where the malady is to be found.

  Paul Washer

  Country, Roots, Ignorant

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• I'm not criticizing Hollywood because I work there, I partly live there. But I'm saying this is the way it is, commerce is taking over art. Commerce has become the most important thing in the film industry. Hollywood is an industry, it's not an art form, therefore they have to address the bottom line. But in a way it's sad when you get a remake, isn't it?

  Ridley Scott

  Art, Important, Addresses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My husband is someone who's in the real world. It's a big help that I don't have both feet in Hollywood

  Jeri Ryan

  Husband, Real, Feet

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• Growing older is not such a big deal for me, despite the fears that older actresses have in Hollywood. When I hit 40, for example, I didn't feel 40 - or whatever that is supposed to feel like.

  Halle Berry

  Example, Growing, Actresses

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• Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't want to alienate half your audience by sending one message or the other.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Abortion, Half, Want

  "Cynthia Nixon: Abortion debate's new voice". Interview with Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. December 21, 2009.

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• I make my pictures for what Hollywood spends on lipstick.

  Maya Deren

  Lipstick

  "Arcade Fire's Reflektions of Maya Deren" by Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. September 11, 2013.

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• When I photographed Marilyn Monroe, I mixed up my cameras - one had black-and-white film, the other color. I took many pictures. Only two color ones came out all right. My favorite picture of Marilyn hangs always on the wall in my office. It was taken on the little patio of her Hollywood house.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Wall, Taken, Black And White

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• For me, it’s not about breaking big in Hollywood, but having interesting experiences.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Interesting, Bigs

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• If you go to Hollywood, you've already sold out.

  Bruce Campbell

  Sold Out, Ifs

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

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• What's the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real.

  Spike Lee

  Real, Character, Differences

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

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• The zero-sum world [the movie The Social Network] portrayed has nothing in common with the Silicon Valley I know, but I suspect it's a pretty accurate portrayal of the dysfunctional relationships that dominate Hollywood.

  Peter Thiel

  Zero, Valleys, World

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• We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

  Michael Eisner

  Technology, Technological Change, Entertainment

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• WHAT is America but beauty queens, millionaires, stupid records and Hollywood?

  Adolf Hitler

  Queens, Stupid, America

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• I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.

  Leonard Maltin

  Kids, Independent, Class

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