Hollywood Quotes - Page 2

• Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

  Erica Jong

  Funny, Country, America

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

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• Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.

  Lionel Barrymore

  Funny, People, Dying

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• People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.

  Terry Gilliam

  Men, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

  Bette Davis

  Reality, Realism, Wanted

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• I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

  Michael Douglas

  New York, Hype, People

  FaceBook post by Michael Douglas from Apr 16, 2013

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• Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

  William Faulkner

  Art, Men, Climbing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Photography, Artist, Men

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• I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.

  David Mamet

  Real, Violence, Raises

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• I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.

  Barbra Streisand

  Names, History, Teeth

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

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• Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.

  Walter Winchell

  Funny, Death, Suicide

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• I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.

  Cedric Hardwicke

  Sorry, Believe, Swimming

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• My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.

  Kurtis Blow

  Jam, Diplomats, Firsts

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• But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it.

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Real, Littles, Smooth

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• If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!

  Helen Reddy

  Girlfriend, Ambition, Here I Am

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• The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant drinking, the incessant squabbling over money, the all-pervasive agent, the strutting of the big shots (and their usually utter incompetence to achieve anything they start out to do), the constant fear of losing all this fairy gold and being the nothing they have never ceased to be, the snide tricks, the whole damn mess is out of this world.

  Raymond Chandler

  Drinking, Boys, Community

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.64, Grove Press

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• Hollywood's a very weird place. I think there's less of everything except for attitude.

  Dean Cain

  Funny, Attitude, Thinking

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

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• I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.

  Victoria Jackson

  Girl, Thinking, Reason

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• The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Movie, Fighting, 80s And 90s

  "Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• I find Hollywood really toxic.

  Rachel Weisz

  Toxic

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

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• You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Movie, Heart

  Quoted in J. R. Colombo, Wit and Wisdom of the Moviemakers (1979)

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• Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.

  John Schlesinger

  Kind, Extraordinary, Temporary

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• If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

  Raymond Chandler

  Funny, Book, Should

  Atlantic Monthly, 12 Dec. 1945

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• Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands.

  David O. Selznick

  Blow, Wind, Pyramids

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• The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

  Dorothy Parker

  Art, Believe, Isms

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Art, Humor

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