Hollywood Quotes - Page 34

• I think it’s important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here is only a tiny slice out of the massive amount of operation that goes on around the world.

  Mike Leigh

  Thinking, Important, Cinema

  "The Auteur, The Voyeur: Mike Leigh Talks". Interview with Durga Chew-Bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2010.

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• I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Character, Stuff, Tvs

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• I think Hollywood is so driven by money, the people who are making the decisions are not necessarily reflective of the melting pot, so what stories are you going to want to tell? You're going to want to tell stories about yourself.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Thinking, People, Decision

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• I believe 'Hollywood' is more like middle America than many people imagine.

  Steven Levitan

  Believe, America, People

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

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• Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens.

  Thomas Lennon

  Bad Movies, Happens

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• People don’t talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it’s not an incredibly safe place to do it.

  Zachary Levi

  People, Safe, Safe Places

  "The Verge Q+A: Zachary Levi, Star of Chuck, Most Interesting Christian in Hollywood". Interview with Steve Heisler, www.gq.com. March 1, 2010.

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• You know, Hollywood is a very interesting town - always has been, always will be.

  Zachary Levi

  Interesting, Towns, Knows

  "The Verge Q+A: Zachary Levi, Star of Chuck, Most Interesting Christian in Hollywood". Interview with Steve Heisler, www.gq.com. March 1, 2010.

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• As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.

  Christian Marclay

  Artist, Talking, Obscure

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• Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Dream, Growing Up, People

  "Elizabeth McGovern: the lady is a vamp" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2012.

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• North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Valleys, Glamorous

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

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• Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.

  Harry Morgan

  Actors, Television, Roles

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

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• I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one.

  Jean-Marie Messier

  Jew

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• Hollywood's full of transients. Everybody comes from somewhere else.

  Poppy Montgomery

  Somewhere Else

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• I'm not saying that it's wrong to make huge Hollywood films but it's just a different kind of feeling, a different sort of pleasure.

  Roger Michell

  Hollywood Films, Feelings, Different

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• I think it would be a problem if Hollywood was casting British actors only as villains; if that were the case, then certainly there would be cause for concern.

  Alfred Molina

  Thinking, Causes, Would Be

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• The great thing about it is, in Hollywood, certain people are very good at keeping their lives and who they are very private. I've never met anybody as down to earth and cool in Hollywood than Matt Damon.

  Anthony Mackie

  People, Earth, Damon

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.

  Anthony Minghella

  Ambitious, Mountain, Patient

  "Anthony Minghella: Truly, madly, deeply missed" by Stephanie Busari, www.cnn.com. March 21, 2008.

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• I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe the world.

  Bernie Mac

  Men, Stories, World

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• Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.

  Frank Miller

  Practice, Cinema, Towns

  "Q&A with Frank Miller" by Stephen Garrett, www.esquire.com. March 30, 2007.

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• When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue.

  Olivia Williams

  Play, Different, Roles

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

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• My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.

  Rita Wilson

  Mother, Father, Greek

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

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• Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Thinking, Hollywood Films, Done

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

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• I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Character, Thinking, Chinese

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

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• I really want to do something in Europe. With a small movie, it can be an interesting challenge. But I have to get the right project. I don't think it's so important to go to Hollywood. All that trash that comes out of there! I don't want to do that.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Thinking, Europe, Interesting

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

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• Working in Hollywood, it's clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole Japanese set. Only in Hollywood!

  Zhang Ziyi

  Technology, More Money, Clear

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

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