Hollywood Quotes - Page 37

• Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.

  Orson Welles

  Games, Down And, Bitter

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.193, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• They've great respect for the dead in Hollywood, but none for the living.

  Errol Flynn

  Great Respect

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

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• Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments.

  Will Rogers

  Animal, Long, Water

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• Perpetual wakefulness doesn't mean you have all physical knowledge, that you can speak all languages, that you can fix cars...that is a storybook, Hollywood version of the enlightenment experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Mean, Car

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• I think Hollywood's gotten more reactionary and conservative over the years, because there's no longer art in Hollywood. Art suffers in Hollywood.

  Ricky Gervais

  Art, Thinking, Years

  "Ricky Gervais: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 12, 2012.

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• Hollywood is responsible for some of the greatest and worst movies of all time!

  Ricky Gervais

  Responsible, Worst, All Time

  "Cemetery Junction - Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm not a film snob at all. I much prefer a really good Hollywood blockbuster than a thought-provoking art house movie because entertainment is sort of where it's at.

  Ricky Gervais

  Art, Thought Provoking, House

  "Night At The Museum - Ricky Gervais interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I studied cinema at the university so I had a very classical approach to it. I studied all those silent films, and then the films from the 1940's, the Nouvelle Vague, the late Hollywood films. Now I realize, as a young actor, that it's one of my duties to actually be aware of what is today's industry and today's next big directors.

  Gaspard Ulliel

  Silent Films, Hollywood Films, Today

  Source: collider.com

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• The Age of Adaline was very special because it marks for me the first male lead on a proper Hollywood production.

  Michiel Huisman

  Special, Age, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• The normal Hollywood approach is to have a super-charged production company and then go to the studios for distribution and marketing.

  Robert Simonds

  Marketing, Normal, Distribution

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Hopefully, you'll be able to find enough of an audience, each time, that you can keep working, rather than getting caught up in the Hollywood system, which can so quickly become about how much money something makes and how many people went to watch it. It's very alluring. It's such a powerful machine that's playing on you, the whole time.

  Sharlto Copley

  Powerful, People, Machines

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not sure that I want my life to consist of Hollywood franchises, to be honest. There are other types of work that I'm interested in, like theater and just more serious drama and I just don't know.

  Taron Egerton

  Drama, Want, Serious

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do ; try to be shocking and dirty.

  John Waters

  Dirty, People, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I get called in for stuff for Hollywood, I get to be the best friend of the Caucasian leadIf I want to play the main guy, I have found, I have to write it.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Writing, Play, Guy

  "All About the Hamiltons" by Rebecca Mead, www.newyorker.com. February 9, 2015.

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• I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.

  Tim Heidecker

  Thinking, People, Healthy

  "Sundance 2012: Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim Skewer 'Douchey' Hollywood in Their 'Billion Dollar Movie' (Q&A)". Interview with Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 20, 2012.

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• Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy's wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on an unforgettable ride through the overlapping underworlds of B&D magazines, Hollywood noir, and early political liberation movements that inspired actress Maila Nurmi to challenge a postwar culture bent on stifling women's choices, bodies, and desires. This book is a subversive masterpiece.

  Sheri Holman

  Dream, Book, Political

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• I want to abolish tags like 'comeback' and 'retirement' that are used to define every married female actor. What is the big deal? In Hollywood, every top actor takes a break, has children, and gets back to work.

  Karisma Kapoor

  Retirement, Children, Female

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• Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue you could get better somewhere else.

  Raymond Chandler

  Hate, Real, Order

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Little Sister: A Novel”, p.184, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• There was a time when I could walk down the street, Hollywood Boulevard or Beverly Drive, and somebody would come up to you and they would say, "Excuse me," and you'd barely hear them, and you'd turn around and you'd say, "Yeah, how you doing?" and they'd say, "I'm really sorry to bother you, but my aunt is a big fan of yours, and would you mind terribly if you'd just sign this paper," or whatever it is, and you're happy to do that, and the people are pretty nice about it.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Sorry, Nice, Aunt

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I do think that failure begets success sometimes, but it's often looked upon in Hollywood as not a good thing.

  John Kapelos

  Thinking, Sometimes, Good Things

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Most people sitting at home aren't cool, successful, witty Hollywood stars, but they all worry about what people think of them when they faux pas.

  Ricky Gervais

  Witty, Stars, Home

  Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 10, 2007.

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• Most of what Hollywood puts out is crap anyway.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Crap

  "The Third Way: Combining Summer's New Suits & Sportswear". Esquire Interview, www.esquire.com. May 19, 2009.

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• There seems to be a notion in Hollywood that if you want to make money, you have to sacrifice doing good work with integrity. And I think that's bullshit. I think that's an excuse, and it's what people say who are scared that they can't do good work.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Integrity, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 28, 2007.

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• The traditions of Hollywood are grand and great and are going to survive forever, in a way. But they're not going to be the only way for much longer. The technology is such now that you don't have to have millions of dollars to make a movie. You can make one with a computer.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Technology, Forever, Dollars

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 28, 2007.

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• A lot of people who are actors and artists who work in Hollywood come from a background of abuse, and you can make abused people very fearful and they'll do what they're told. Hollywood definitely has a point of view that it sells.

  Roseanne Barr

  Artist, Views, People

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

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