Hollywood Quotes - Page 39

• There's nothing the matter with Hollywood that a good earthquake couldn't cure.

  Moss Hart

  Earthquakes, Matter, Cures

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• I'm an independent filmmaker with complete creative control of my films. I hire who I want. I have final cut. But at the same time, I go directly to Hollywood for financing and distribution. I find it's best for me to work within the Hollywood system.

  Spike Lee

  Independent, Cutting, Creative

  Spike Lee, Cynthia Fuchs (2002). “Spike Lee: Interviews”, p.32, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Makeup can be pure fantasy--it can transform you into any kind of magical creature, whether that's a superhero or a retro Hollywood icon or just a more fun, fresher version of yourself. Looking like a stress-free, well-rested working mom? That's some kind of magic to me.

  Jessica Alba

  Mom, Fun, Stress

  Jessica Alba (2013). “The Honest Life (Enhanced Edition): Living Naturally and True to You”, p.64, Rodale

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• Hollywood isn't your cesspool, America. It's your mirror.

  Bill Maher

  Mirrors, America

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.105, Rodale

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• You know, the only place in America where the millionaires and billionaires are predominantly liberal is here in Hollywood.

  Bill Maher

  America, Millionaire, Billionaire

  "The Great Thing About Having Been Poor" by Bill Maher, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2012.

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• Hollywood is a very male business, and it has in vast portions of it - the whole action movie part of it might as well be the United States Army in 1943 in that the ethics of it are, you know, boot camp and action movies and guns and explosions and all the rest of it, and that - so that means that about 50% of the business is not only pretty much closed off to women, but women don't even wanna be in it!

  Nora Ephron

  Mean, Army, Gun

  "Dreams on Spec". Documentary, 2007.

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• Hollywood's two polar types are the cynically drunken writer aggressively nursing a ten-year-old reputation and the theatrically self-conscious hermit who strides the boulevard in sandals, home-made shorts and a prophetic beard, muttering against the Age of the Machines.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Home, Nursing, Self

  Christopher Isherwood (1966). “Exhumations: Stories, Articles, Verses”

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• Today, the only thing Hollywood swears by is space adventures because that's what goes over well. For my part, I trust my instinct and I make the films I believe in. If the public follows me, that's wonderful. If it doesn't follow, "c'est la vie.

  Clint Eastwood

  Believe, Adventure, Space

  Clint Eastwood, Kathie Coblentz (1999). “Clint Eastwood: Interviews”, p.110, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Hollywood seems to succumb to fads. Well, action films do well. Give me violence. Give me a scene where there's a couple of car chases or shooting and stuff like that. They're forgetting the fact that there's a basic structure to a story that is essential to making it really broad and appealing.

  Clint Eastwood

  Couple, Giving, Car

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• So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again. Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.

  Billy Joel

  Goodbye, Baby, Lasts

  Song: Say Goodbye To Hollywood

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• Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.

  Billy Joel

  Beach, New York, Holiday

  "New York State of Mind" (song) (1976)

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• It's lovely that the Hollywood stars are crossing over to Broadway.... There used to be such a dividing line in the country between Hollywood and the theatre and that's just melting away. It's just wonderful right now!

  Julie Andrews

  Country, Stars, Melting Away

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• I love the old Hollywood glam look: platinum blonde hair, the perfect red lip. It's very Marilyn Monroe and shows a pure feminine beauty.

  Christina Aguilera

  Hair, Feminine Beauty, Perfect

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• Zombies don't run. They don't dance. They don't say, "More brains." There is no Thriller Night. Those are stereotypes that are perpetrated by Hollywood, which I think is very irresponsible because it can get you killed.

  Max Brooks

  Running, Thinking, Night

  "'I’m Just A Zombie Nerd' The Max Brooks Interview". Interview with Allie Townsend, techland.time.com. July 15, 2010.

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• Coming from Ireland, its quite hard to do a startup because youre culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing. In the Bay Area, its much easier. Its the equivalent of an actor or actress moving to Hollywood.

  John Collison

  Moving, Actresses, Bay Area

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• The world has certain rules - Hollywood has certain rules - but it doesn't mean you have to play by them, and I don't, or I'd be a miserable person.

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Mean, Play, Miserable Person

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

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• When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.

  Michael Caine

  Years, Actors, Agents

  Interview with Barry Norman, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 1998.

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• I'm sure I can't relate to what females go through in Hollywood, but I do know what it feels like to eat emotionally. To be sad and make yourself happy with food, and then be almost immediately sad again, and then ashamed. Then, you try to hide those feelings with more food.

  Chris Pratt

  Feelings, Trying, Female

  Source: collider.com

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• Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We've all experienced that, in one way or another.

  Vin Diesel

  Directors, Actors, Way

  "Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Michael Rooker, Benicio Del Toro, Vin Diesel and James Gunn Talk GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 28, 2014.

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• It is natural for us to pay attention to North Korea and human rights issues of North Korean defectors but I wish people would not try to create stars. The reality is different from Hollywood movies.

  Hark-Joon Lee

  Stars, Reality, Rights

  "This journalist didn’t just interview North Korean defectors, he followed them on their escape". Interview with Anna Fifield, www.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2015.

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• I've been a writer for a long time but I kind of had to get rid of a lot of the things I learned in Hollywood but I kept some of them too. And things I kept were: don't be precious, kill your darlings is always good, give it dynamics - you don't want it to be all joyful, all sad.

  Maya Forbes

  Long, Giving, Dynamics

  Source: collider.com

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• Hollywood is obsessed with police stories.

  Ice Cube

  Police, Stories, Obsessed

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 15, 2014.

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• I grew up in Hollywood but not in any rich neighborhood.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Rich, Grew Up, Neighborhood

  Interview with Ingrid Sischy and Amanda Duberman, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2012.

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• [Steven Spielberg's films] are comforting, they always give you answers and I don't think they're very clever answers. The success of most Hollywood films these days is down to fact that they're comforting. They tie things up in nice little bows and give you answers, even if the answers are stupid, you go home and you don't have to think about it. The great filmmakers make you go home and think about it.

  Terry Gilliam

  Clever, Nice, Stupid

  YouTube Channel "MeatTycoon"/"Terry Gilliam criticizes Spielberg and Schindler's List", www.youtube.com. August 14, 2009.

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• We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but I consider the profession about the most debased and debasing I know.

  Robert E. Howard

  Art, Appreciate, Tin

  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, February 20, 1928.

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