Hollywood Quotes - Page 36

• My first book, Fast Forward, was about growing up in the shadow of Hollywood and how kids are affected by the culture of materialism and the cult of celebrity, and I've often felt the reason my work has an audience in the UK is because it's everything the British love to hate about the Americans.

  Lauren Greenfield

  Growing Up, Hate, Book

  "Lauren Greenfield: 'It's everything the British love to hate about Americans'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2012.

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• Being a Chicano in Hollywood, my experience is that you're not given credit for any sophistication... You're just kind of some guy that just crossed the border, you know, on the back of a truck and that's it.

  Cheech Marin

  Guy, Borders, Credit

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• Because someone stole Gregory Peck's star on Hollywood Blvd., I have hired a Brink's guard to protect my star!

  Rip Taylor

  Stars, Protect

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• I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star.

  Anna May Wong

  Stars, May, Hong Kong

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• As Hollywood knows, I'm full of ideas.

  Dave Willis

  Ideas, Knows

  "Dana Snyder and Dave Willis on Aqua Teen Hunger Force's limitless potential". Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. November 11, 2009.

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• There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Directors, Speak, Discussion

  "Baz Luhrmann (II)". Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.

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• I've ridden a bike since I was 18. It was the first transportation when I came to Hollywood because it was inexpensive and easy for me.

  John Travolta

  Firsts, Easy, Inexpensive

  Source: movies.about.com

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• I don't think a lot of people really understand the commitment it takes to being a character that an actor in Hollywood would take to approaching a role that they're doing.

  Misty Copeland

  Character, Commitment, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• You definitely meet a lot of extremely powerful, successful, wealthy people in Hollywood who are extremely miserable.

  Diablo Cody

  Powerful, Successful, People

  "Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt, and Screenwriter Diablo Cody YOUNG ADULT Interview". Press Conference in New York City, collider.com. December 6, 2011.

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• I also wonder why is it that so many of the movies and books that are detective stories are also the most aesthetically interesting? From Hollywood noirs to horror movies like The Shining [1980].

  Christopher Bollen

  Book, Interesting, Shining

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Any topical subject, if it's Hollywood, will be a couple of years later because you've got to write it, produce it and distribute it, so automatically you're never going to be right on the cutting edge of stories.

  George Clooney

  Couple, Writing, Cutting

  "The Men Who Stare At Goats - George Clooney interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• In Hollywood, lying is something that people do like breathing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, Breathing, People

  "Stardust - Matthew Vaughn and Neil Gaiman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• For some reason, a lot of Hollywood big shots are curious to see how they'd be drawn with bulging eyes and no chin.

  Matt Groening

  Eye, Drawing, Reason

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• It seems everyone in Hollywood is getting pinched, lifted and pulled. I'm looking weird because I'm not.

  Robert Redford

  Seems

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• I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead!

  Clive James

  Wish, Pearls, Saws

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• No one has a closest friend in Hollywood. These guys do not do friends in the orthodox sense!

  Sheilah Graham Westbrook

  Guy, Orthodox, Closest Friends

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• This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I had a great conceit to think that if all else failed I could always go to Hollywood. So when all else did fail I really went to Hollywood. And then I found out how wrong I was.

  David Niven

  Army, Thinking, Numbers

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• The majority of Latin actresses in Hollywood were always playing either spitfires or maids. Now here is a woman who comes in and does leads opposite white people and black people and other Spanish people, and she's comfortable in her skin? Gasp! How dare she?

  Rosie Perez

  Latin, Opposites, White

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• It was mostly an aura about him (Gene Kelly). For me he was Hollywood. The way I'd imagined it as a child.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Children, Way, Auras

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• Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.

  Bela Lugosi

  Amusement, Type, Producers

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

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• Becca Gardner is wonderful as the good-hearted little Griff who refuses to be daunted by all the heart-ache and resentment on dad's ranch and this young actress proves there's another young child actress in Hollywood besides Dakota Fanning.

  Richard Roeper

  Children, Dad, Heart

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• I hold, as an article of faith, that the worth of an organisation can be accurately measured as the reciprocal of how many Hollywood beautiful people it attracts. It has never failed me yet.

  Barry Williams

  Beautiful, People, Articles

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• All that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Girl, Parent, Insulting

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• Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.

  Yahoo Serious

  Satire, Horrible

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

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• This is true Hollywood glamour! I am taking personal jewels from a screen legend and creating a one-of-a-kind pair of shoes,which will be worn by a movie star of today.

  Stuart Weitzman

  Stars, Jewels, Shoes

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