Hollywood Quotes - Page 5

• Hollywood's a great place to live... if you're a grapefruit.

  Rod Serling

  Grapefruit, Places To Live, Ifs

  Rod Serling's letter to his wife, as quoted in TV Series "American Masters" ("Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval", November 29, 1995), (1985 - ).

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• My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.

  Gene Tierney

  Swag, Departure, Walks

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

  Orson Welles

  Invention, Gangsters

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

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• Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.

  Billy Wilder

  Killing

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

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• Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons.

  Gerard Butler

  Thinking, Cynical, World

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• If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

  Naomi Watts

  Change, Way, Break

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Age, Sexist, Bases

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• On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.

  Rick Moranis

  Couple, Able, Lasts

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• I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit

  Tony Goldwyn

  Names, Detroit, Grew Up

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• I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.

  Marlee Matlin

  Handshake, Executives

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• [Mickey Mouse] He popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

  Walt Disney

  Brother, Business, Years

  "A Walt Disney World Resort Outing : The Only Vacation Planning Guide Exclusively for Gay and Lesbian Travelers". Book by Dann Hazel and Josh Fippen, 2002.

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• To get on in Hollywood, you've gotta be a bit gay and a bit Jewish, and I'm saving up to be Jewish.

  Vinnie Jones

  Gay, Saving Up, Bits

  Source: collider.com

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• Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

  Alistair Cooke

  Greek, Factories, Flourishing

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• If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.

  Jay Leno

  Apology, Boulevard, Ifs

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• In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.

  Will Rogers

  Writing, People, Woods

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• I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.

  Ben Hecht

  Sports, Brain, Jackets

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• In Hollywood, as I've often said, if you don't sing or dance, you end up as an after-dinner speaker.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dinner, Ends, Said

  Ronald Reagan (1990). “An American Life”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• Hollywood is kind of a bad world.

  Mia Maestro

  World, Kind

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• Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

  Oscar Levant

  Inspirational, Art, Real

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• In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

  Will Rogers

  Night, Olympics, Enough

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• Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?

  Dustin Hoffman

  Movie, Hollywood Films, Great Year

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• In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.

  Groucho Marx

  Wedding, Bouquets, Comedy

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• We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.

  Hattie McDaniel

  Pay, Sincerity, Acquaintance

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• Hooray for Hollywood.

  Johnny Mercer

  1937 Title of song which first appeared in the film Hollywood Hotel, performed by Johnny Davis and Frances Langford.

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• I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

  Angelina Jolie

  Thinking, People, Normal

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