Hollywood Quotes - Page 38

• I think I came along at an opportune time. I don't know if that would happen anymore, because the whole way of doing business in Hollywood has changed.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Thinking, Way, Changed

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Hollywood is a bit of a publicity game where it's constantly trying to portray things and put up this image and I was not interested in that.

  Terry Crews

  Games, Trying, Publicity

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I always joke around with my parents and say that if Hollywood doesn't work out I'll go to Broadway!

  Claudia Lee

  Work Out, Parent, Broadway

  "Nice to Meet You: Hart of Dixie Star and Country-Rap Artist, Claudia Lee!". Interview with Haley Longman, www.clevver.com. July 2, 2012.

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• To the critics: You always complain that Hollywood never gives you new stuff, and then when you get it, you flip out. Lighten up.

  Peter Farrelly

  Giving, Complaining, Stuff

  "Movie 43 director tells critics to 'lighten up' after film bombs at box office" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2013.

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• Even as a child, when kids my age would watch cartoons, I preferred watching horror flicks. I had watched some Hollywood horror flicks and even films made by the Ramsay brothers by the time I was six! I have always been biased towards that genre.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Brother, Children, Kids

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• Actions which are conscious expressions of the turn-on, tune-in, drop-out rhythm are religious.The wise person devotes his life exclusively to the religious search - for therein is found the only ecstasy, the only meaning. Anything else is a competitive quarrel over (or Hollywood-love sharing of) studio props.

  Timothy Leary

  Wise, Religious, Expression

  "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out". Book by Timothy Leary, 1999.

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• I would rather live in a country where children are protected and their predators prosecuted, and even (which in Hollywood is evidently not always the same thing) disapproved of.

  Roman Polanski

  Country, Children, Predator

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• The people who've done well within the [Hollywood] system are the people whose instincts, whose desires [are in natural alignement with those of the producers] - who want to make the kind of movies that producers want to produce. People who don't succeed - people who've had long, bad times; like [Jean] Renoir, for example, who I think was the best director, ever - are the people who didn't want to make the kind of pictures that producers want to make. Producers didn't want to make a Renoir picture, even if it was a success.

  Orson Welles

  Thinking, Long, People

  "The Orson Welles Story". Documentary, 1982.

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• I think Hollywood is in love with sequels. If it's successful once, just jazz it up and shoot it out there again. I think it's unfortunate.

  Paul Newman

  Successful, Thinking, Jazz

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 9, 2006.

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• In Hollywood, you grow up quick.

  Lauren Conrad

  Growing Up, Grows

  "Lauren Conrad Talks to Glamour: "My Friends Are Everything"". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. April 1, 2010.

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• Hollywood is a place where some people lie on the beach and look up at the stars, whereas other people lie on the stars and look down at the beach.

  Noel Coward

  Beach, Stars, Lying

  The Times Interview, May 26, 2009.

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• Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood.

  George Lucas

  "Lucas in a D.C. daze" by William Triplett, variety.com. February 20, 2006.

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• It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's black.

  Will Smith

  Black, Doe, Different

  "Will Smith". "Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies", 2001.

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• Hollywood can be an exclusive place. Who gets to be on TV, or who gets to make TV can be a small clique of an industry. There's so many talented, skilled people, all over the world, that might not have the connections or the opportunities to work in TV.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Opportunity, People, Connections

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt Talks HITRECORD ON TV Season 2, Influencing Other Work, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 12, 2015.

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• The technology companies don't understand creative things at all. Silicon Valley's view of the creative process in Hollywood is a bunch of guys in their young thirties sitting on a couch, drinking beer, and thinking up jokes.

  Steve Jobs

  Drinking, Beer, Technology

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm sure there are people in Hollywood, whose main drive in film is to make money, who will feel that any use of the word hijacking or any reference to anything violent or remotely associated with the terrible tragedy that occurred will lose customers for them. And that will be the only criterion that will matter and so they'll force the minions that work for them to remove these things from their movies, or not make movies about that subject.

  Woody Allen

  People, Tragedy, Use

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• I always felt that Hollywood has a way of making you feel outside.

  Tim Burton

  Way, Feels, Felt

  Interview with Mark Kermode, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2000.

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• When I was a Hollywood press agent, I learned how the Hollywood casting system worked. There was a roster of actors who were always perfect as doctors or lawyers or laborers, and the directors just picked the types they needed and stuffed them into film after film. I do the same [with
  my characters], book after book.

  Richard Condon

  Book, Character, Doctors

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• When you think of Hollywood, you think of the land of opportunity. I always want to have the opportunity to do things conducive to my career.

  Raekwon

  Opportunity, Thinking, Land

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• Don't be discouraged if you think you're not a great writer because terrible writers are successful in Hollywood

  David Seltzer

  Successful, Thinking, Discouraged

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• I was so tired of the parts I had to play. There seems little for me in Hollywood, because, rather than real Chinese, producers prefer Hungarians, Mexicans, American Indians for Chinese roles.

  Anna May Wong

  Real, Tired, Play

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• The whole city gives you the impression of impermanence. You have the feeling that one day someone is going to yell, "Cut! Strike it!" and then the stagehands will scurry out and remove the mountains, the movie-star homes, the Hollywood Bowl--everything.

  Allan Sherman

  Funny, Stars, Home

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• If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.

  Lance Armstrong

  Stories, Scripts, Come Up

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• The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Successful, Guy, Way

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• In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an actor. I don't think there's a real person left in the place.

  Neil Gaiman

  Real, Men, Thinking

  "Signal to Noise". Book by Neil Gaiman, 1992.

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