Hollywood Quotes - Page 4

• Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to.

  Liza Minnelli

  Stars, Children, Growing Up

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• Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Individuality, Paradox, Propose

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• Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse.

  Cesar Romero

  World, Towns, Excuse

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• My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.

  Robert Vaughn

  War, Speaks Out, Vietnam

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• So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.

  Kitty Carlisle

  Wave, Caught, Caught Up

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• The bravery of Stanley Kramer's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' amounted to two Hollywood legends - Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy - telling the world that a black son-in-law is something they can live with, and so should you, especially if he looks like Sidney Poitier and has degrees.

  Wesley Morris

  Son, Law, Two

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• You're gonna need a bigger boat.

  Peter Benchley

  Inspirational, Movie, Radio News

  "Fictional character: Chief Martin Brody". "Jaws", www.imdb.com. June 20, 1975.

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• It's a mining town in lotus land.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Land, Lotuses, Towns

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1994). “The Love of the Last Tycoon: The Authorized Text”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Oysters, Pearls, Disease

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• In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

  Annette Funicello

  Birthday, Stars, Fame

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• You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Father, Book, Writing

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• And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.

  Kitty Carlisle

  Crazy, Madness

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• May the Force be with you.

  George Lucas

  Movie, Film History, Psychics

  Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

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• Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

  Candice Bergen

  Funny, Memorable, California

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• One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?

  James Caan

  Baseball, Eye, Son

  "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  My Family, Backdrop, Knows

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• If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.

  Roger Ebert

  Stars, Speaks Out, People

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

  Roger Ebert

  Teenager, Mean, Violence

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• Hollywood is the most superficial thing you could possibly be a part of and if I weren't attractive, I wouldn't be working at all.

  Megan Fox

  Superficial Things, Attractive, Ifs

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

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• They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood.

  Bob Hope

  England, Comedy, Ifs

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• The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.

  James Earl Jones

  Stars, Goal, Millionaire

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Blessing, Boredom, Problem

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• Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star.

  Liza Minnelli

  Stars, Children, Growing Up

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• You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense.

  John C. Reilly

  Long, Kind, Nonsense

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• I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Stars, Greatest Movie, Movie Star

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