Hollywood Quotes - Page 29

• Jackass millionaires, hey, hey, Hollywood, here we come.

  Brad Paisley

  Art, Media, Hey

  Song: Celebrity Brad Paisley, Album: Mud On The Tires, 2003

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• Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played. Hollywood created a superstar, and pain was the price you paid.

  Elton John

  Art, Pain, Loneliness

  Song: Candle In The Wind Elton John Bernie Taupin

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• So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.

  Eric Clapton

  Art, Thinking, Media

  Song: Tulsa Time, Album: Backless, 1978

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• The Hollywood sirens are shrieking, while down some search lit alley runs some lost belief.

  Joni Mitchell

  Running, Art, Media

  Song: The Windfall, Album: Night Ride Home

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• This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood.

  Van Morrison

  Art, Media, Entertainment

  Song: This Weight, Album: The Healing Game

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• This really blew my mind, the fact that me, an over fed, long haired, leaping gnome, should be the star of a Hollywood movie.

  Eric Burdon

  Art, Stars, Media

  Song: Spill the Wine

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• In Hollywood, if you have any success, you have this fear: What do you have to do to hang onto it?

  David Caruso

  Ifs

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• My visibility may have gotten Hollywood to redefine what's attractive.

  David Caruso

  May, Visibility, Attractive

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• I've chosen not to live in Hollywood, and instead I live in Brooklyn, New York. It's how I like to live. I'd rather hang out with my kids and family when I'm not working. Going to premieres is not my idea of a fun night out.

  Jennifer Connelly

  New York, Fun, Kids

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• I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters.

  Michael Connelly

  Book, Character, Scripts

  "Q&A With Author Michael Connelly". Interview with Austin O'Connor, www.aarp.org. March 9, 2011.

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• Being from New York, there's three things you know about Hollywood. You know about the Hollywood sign, Sunset Strip and Hollywood Boulevard with the stars.

  Puff Daddy

  New York, Stars, Sunset

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• In Hollywood, you feel a responsibility to look less disheveled than you are. But I'm a mom, and I'm not good at putting time into prepping.

  Isla Fisher

  Mom, Responsibility, Looks

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

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• And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.

  John Frankenheimer

  Writing, Thinking, Editors

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• Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.

  Manny Farber

  Depressing, Sex, Sunset

  Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.644, Library of America

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• Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at home with the medium than any other Hollywood director. But all of his details give the impression of contrived effect.

  Manny Farber

  Home, Giving, Way

  Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.600, Library of America

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• Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.

  Manny Farber

  Art, Light, Evening

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• The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart).

  Manny Farber

  Sleep, Men, Honest

  Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.562, Library of America

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• The cold, mean 'Sunset Boulevard' - a beautiful title, though I suspect it was shot on another boulevard - is further proof of the resurgence of art in the Hollywood of super-craftsmen with insuperable taste.

  Manny Farber

  Beautiful, Art, Sunset

  Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.645, Library of America

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• My goal is: I'm not trying to be snobby, but my clothes are not for everyone, not for every Hollywood celebrity. There is a designer for everyone, and a celebrity for every designer.

  Prabal Gurung

  Clothes, Goal, Trying

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• Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.

  Josh Gad

  Taken, Joy, Kind

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• As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Thinking, Actors, World

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• There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Stupid, Thinking, People

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

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• New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  New York, Stars, Suicidal

  "The Exchange: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Menachem Kaiser, www.newyorker.com. June 8, 2009.

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• I wasn't one of those kids who was chasing the dream and wanted to get to Hollywood because one day I was gonna get my chance and be a big star. I never felt like that.

  C. Thomas Howell

  Dream, Stars, Kids

  "C. Thomas Howell on The Outsiders, blackface, and how Marlboros got him cast in E.T". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I love California. I love Hollywood.

  Dwight Henry

  California

  "Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, and Director Benh Zeitlin Talk About Their Feature Debut BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 27, 2012.

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