Hollywood Quotes - Page 16

• I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.

  Ken Burns

  Drama, Past, Interesting

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• On Hollywood turning its back on him: I wasn't in the club. You see, I'm not going to be a stroker. I never have been all my life.

  Mickey Rooney

  Life, Clubs, Has Beens

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• Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Life, Zoos, Women

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

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• Unfortunately, I think I'm going to be typecast in Hollywood as the kid who can cry. I don't like putting audiences through those emotional ups and downs. I don't want people to think Dana Hill is so depressing all she does is cry. But the parts are so good, I can't turn them down.

  Dana Hill

  Depressing, Kids, Emotional

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• What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing.

  Alejandro Amenabar

  Mean, People, Exciting

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• Don't say yes until I've finished talking. - Attributed to many Hollywood executives Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

  Kin Hubbard

  Work, Destiny, Talking

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• Oscar and I have something in common. Oscar first came to Hollywood scene in 1928. So did I. We're both a little weather-beaten, but we're still here and plan to be around for a whole lot longer.

  John Wayne

  Weather, Littles, Oscars

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• Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.

  Wilson Mizner

  Time, Made, Caught

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• I'm a straight lady, the best in Hollywood. There is an art to playing the straight role. You must build up your man, but never top him, never steal the laughs.

  Margaret Dumont

  Art, Men, Laughing

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• I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America.

  Renny Harlin

  America, Decided

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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• Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees.

  Weegee

  Tree, Jersey, Newark

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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.

  Mike Figgis

  Firsts, Film, Made

  Mike Figgis (2012). “Digital Film-Making”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

  Chris Kyle

  War, Looks, Hell

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

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• I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Publishing House, Agents, Proposal

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• Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department.

  Ann Sothern

  Stars, Names, Personality

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• There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both.

  Roland Emmerich

  Snow, Water

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• I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look.

  Delta Burke

  New York, Drama, Book

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• I am NOT a belly dancer. I have never been one, and never will be. What I do is not what Hollywood vulgarly calls 'belly dance', but it's art. I have traveled the world to prove that my dance is not a dance of the belly but a refined, artistic dance full of tradition, of dreaming and beauty. Oriental dance is primarily an expressive dance; in that resides the beauty.

  Nadia Gamel

  Dream, Art, Dancer

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• My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax.

  Susan Hayward

  Funny, Life Is Too Short, Games

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

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• Media companies, under the guise of piracy, are asking congress to give them more control over fair use. Hollywood wants to control innovation.

  Joe Kraus

  Media, Giving, Innovation

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• There's a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you're an actor you're somehow not a member of the crew. You're somehow more special. I hate that.

  Rider Strong

  Hate, Real, Special

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• I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me.

  Agatha Christie

  Fashion, Mistake, Divorce

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Five complete Hercule Poirot novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• She lies about her age and weight and is slightly older than Rocket. But they've been a couple for eight years, longer than most in Hollywood.

  Kate Jackson

  Funny, Dog, Couple

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• This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

  Michael Medved

  Spiritual, Challenges, Dimensions

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• Ive been told that if I lose weight Id have more work, but I refuse to submit myself to Hollywood standards. To the rest of the world I am slim and I like the way I am.

  Liv Tyler

  World, Weight, Slim

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