Hollywood Quotes - Page 6

• I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Movie, Inspiring, Girl

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.43, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  World, Drink, Ifs

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• For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

  Ben Hecht

  Years, Games, Effort

  Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet

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• The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Stars, Taken, Sunset

  Jean Baudrillard, Francesco Proto, Keith Broadfoot (2006). “Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard”, Academy Press

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  The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Stars, Sleep, Men

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.

  Wilson Mizner

  Ritz, Sewers

  Evanell K. Powell Brant, Addison Mizner, Wilson Mizner (1979*). “Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner”

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• As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Leading Ladies, Comedic, 1960s

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• Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

  Orson Welles

  Business, Doe, Purpose

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

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• After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

  Fred Thompson

  Witty, Years, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness you send out for it.

  Rex Reed

  Happiness, Entertainment, Ifs

  Rex Reed (1978). “Valentines & vitriol”

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• I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.

  Christopher Atkins

  Ghouls, Vampire, Made

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

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• In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Girl, Important, Virtue

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

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• What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait

  Hattie McDaniel

  World, Demand, Pay

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• Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

  Angela Carter

  Dream, United States, Literature

  Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books

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• But I thought, I've just got to check out Hollywood, so I sent out pictures and resumes.

  Delta Burke

  Checks, Resumes

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• People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.

  Wayne Rogers

  People, Expensive

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• Get busy living, or get busy dying.

  Stephen King

  Inspirational, Life, Movie

  Different Seasons "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" (1982)

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• If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Movie, Inspiring, Sex

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.

  Lorna Luft

  Halloween, Looks, Made

  Lorna Luft (1999). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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• Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.

  Anthony Anderson

  Fun, Independent, Cutting

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

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• The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

  Victoria Jackson

  Lines, Bottom, Bottom Line

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• I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.

  Harry Anderson

  Rats, Quarters

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

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• I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star.

  Arlene Dahl

  Stars, Years, Musical

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• You know, it's not the people in Hollywood who go to see movies that will make a movie successful; it's the people all around the country; it's word-of-mouth.

  Pia Zadora

  Movie, Country, Successful

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• In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it.

  Scott Caan

  Guy, Nails, Today

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