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“In looking at Hollywood and its structure, the director controls the medium, and I want to be in control of certain things. I want to be able to get my own ideas and my own feelings out there, and the only way to do that is to be behind the camera.”

Way Want Ideas Feelings Able Certain My Own Behinds Directors Hollywood Cameras Structure Mediums

Author:Jamie Foxx

“My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character.”

World Should Persons Made Character Mistake Audience Lovers Normal Ordinary Should Have Hollywood Sane Neurotic Ordinary Person Perfectly Normal Lead Characters

Author:Gene Wilder

“To be honest, I miss the old Hollywood way of having some mystique about the star.”

Way Stars Honest Missing Hollywood Being Honest Mystique Old Hollywood

Author:Nicole Scherzinger

“I got very depressed. Hollywood can be a terrible place when youre depressed. The pits. I decided I had to change my life and do different things.”

Different Terrible Decided Hollywood Different Things Pits Changing My Life Very Depressed

Author:Jeff Conaway

“I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz. I grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.”

Grew Grew Up Hollywood Beach

Author:Adam Shankman

“I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.”

People Thinking Used Built Hollywood Theatre Old Days

Author:Bill Nighy

“I just needed to leave Hollywood.”

Needed Hollywood

Author:Molly Ringwald

“This is a movement to say we're more than just our dresses. ... It's hard being a woman in Hollywood or any industry.”

Hard Movement Industry Hollywood Dresses Being A Woman

Author:Reese Witherspoon

“Look at me - I was the boo boy for years and years. Did I ever think I would end up in Hollywood or the FA Cup final? No, I didn't.”

Thinking Years Looks Ends Boys Hollywood Finals Cups Look At Me Cup Finals

Author:Vinnie Jones

“That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense.”

Feelings Hollywood Hot Intense

Author:Elizabeth McGovern

“The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it.”

Ifs Way Matter Hollywood Hot

Author:Elizabeth McGovern

“Hollywood is so governed by the ego, and I never wanted to fall into that trap.”

Wanted Fall Ego Hollywood Traps Elise

Author:Kimberly Elise

“I think that if Hollywood has a problem, it constantly underestimates the intelligence and integrity of fans.”

Ifs Thinking Problem Fans Integrity Hollywood Underestimate

Author:Matthew Davis

“Its funny - when you look at the real A-listers nowadays, look at how many live in and around Hollywood. Most of them live on a ranch in Utah. Its no coincidence these guys get in and get out.”

Looks Real Guy Hollywood Coincidence Utah

Author:Darren Boyd

“Size zero doesn't make you happy and I'm not sure I have the discipline for Hollywood. I'm too much of a fan of chocolate and crisps.”

Too Much Fans Discipline Hollywood Size Not Sure Chocolate Zero Make You Happy Crisps Size Zero

Author:Honeysuckle Weeks

“I have to admit I've rarely been happier in my life. I have been absolutely thrilled to be back in New York and living a block from where I grew up. Just to be back in New York and, quite honestly, away from Hollywood has been an absolute thrill for me. I feel like I'm a real actor again.”

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Author:Richard Schiff

“If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.”

People Ifs Needs Hollywood Conservative Lists

Author:Adam Carolla

“I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care.”

Care Connections Hollywood Don't Care I Don't Care Not Interested

Author:Adam Carolla

“Why is Dave Chappelle going to Africa? Why does Mariah Carey make a hundred-million dollar deal and take her clothes off on TRL? A weak person can not get here and talk to you. Ain't no weak people talking to you. So what is happening in Hollywood? Nobody knows! The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive. I don't understand this person, so they're crazy. That's bullshit. These people are not crazy, they're strong people. Maybe the environment is a little sick.”

“Well, I think Hollywood, to be quite honest, I think they've run out of material.”

Thinking Wells Running Honest Materials Hollywood

Author:Mike Epps

“You know how Hollywood is: They just follow suit.”

Knows Know How Hollywood Suits

Author:Mike Epps

“It means I wake up to sunshine every morning, and I can afford to drink better wine at night. But I haven't completely sold out to Hollywood.”

Mean I Can Night Morning Havens Drink Hollywood Wake Up Wine Sunshine Every Morning Sold Out

Author:Ashley Jensen

“I still giggle when someone asks for my address and I say, Hollywood, Los Angeles.”

Stills Asks Hollywood Addresses Los Angeles Giggle

Author:Ashley Jensen

“Before you begin working your way into the system, it is imperative that you are ready to be judged. You are only new once. ... You are only ready when you can orchestrate the next move after you have the industry's attention.”

Way Moving Next Attention Ready Industry Hollywood Judged Imperatives Next Move

Book:Directing Your Directing Career

Source: Directing Your Directing Career

“In Hollywood, primitive magical thinking exists side by side with the most advanced technology.”

Thinking Sides Technology Hollywood Primitive Magical Thinking Advanced Technology

Author:Hortense Powdermaker

“The Hollywood atmosphere of crises and continuous anxiety is a kind of hysteria which prevents people from thinking, and is not too different from the way dictators use wars and continuous threats of war as an emotional basis for maintaining their power.”

People Thinking Way Kind Different War Use Emotional Anxiety Hollywood Bases Crisis Threat Atmosphere Dictator Maintaining Hysteria

Author:Hortense Powdermaker

“In Hollywood, the ... basic freedom of being able to choose between alternatives is absent. The gifted people who have the capacity for choice cannot exercise it; the executives who technically have the freedom of choice do not actually have it, because they usually lack the knowledge and imagination necessary for making such a choice.”

People Able Choices Imagination Exercise Capacity Hollywood Alternatives Executives Gifted Absent Freedom Of Choice

Author:Hortense Powdermaker

“Only a small percentage of novelists, painters, musicians, scientists, anywhere in the world, are talented. But there are many more in Hollywood than one would expect from looking movies.”

World Musician Hollywood Scientist Painter Novelists Percentages

Author:Hortense Powdermaker

“Hollywood provides ready-made fantasies or daydreams; the problem is whether these are productive or nonproductive, whether the audience is psychologically enriched or impoverished.”

Made Problem Fantasy Audience Ready Hollywood Movie Productive Daydreaming

Author:Hortense Powdermaker

“Youth and nepotism, the twin horsemen of Hollywood!”

Youth Hollywood Twins Horsemen Nepotism

Book:High Fall

Source: High Fall

“When I did 'Dancing With the Stars,' everyone in Hollywood was saying I had too much muscle.”

Stars Too Much Hollywood Dancing Muscles Dancing With The Stars

Author:Hope Solo

“In Hollywood, women hate each other.”

Hate Hollywood

Author:Sienna Guillory

“It's a big culture of mind control too, MK-Ultra mind control rules in Hollywood. If you don't know that, google it and look into it. It's really hard for artists to find their voice in the media. It's levels of brainwashing and mind control.”

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Author:Roseanne Barr

“Harrison Ford is absolutely amazing. He is a Hollywood icon, and just to work with him was absolutely incredible.”

Hollywood Incredibles Icons

Author:Carly Schroeder

“Unfortunately, many talented people in Hollywood find their values and politics do not reflect the content they create, and many movie themes are in direct contrast with over half of todays American families.”

People Today Values Half Direct Hollywood Theme Contrast American Family

Author:Allen Covert

“Only a dreamer or a fool would pick a stock at random and expect it to take off like a space ship from its launching pad. Certainly this has happened - about as often as a dime-store clerk has become a Hollywood star or a boy born in a log cabin has been elected President of the United States - just often enough, that is, to keep alive the Great American Dream.”

“I never did love Hollywood, I just loved the work.”

Hollywood

Author:Bronson Pinchot

“Sometimes when you get old, you get a star on Hollywood Boulevard.”

Sometimes Stars Hollywood Old You Boulevard

Author:Jane Wiedlin

“The idea was to take fine art and put it into the location of the movie scripts. The script itself is collage - some of the lines come from actual movies and I've written others to make the text work with the found image. In this way, the details of old dead guys' paintings (from the collection of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, where this work will be exhibited in relation to the historical paintings) become illustrations of the movie scripts. I found this mélange of high art and Hollywood amusing.”

Way Art Ideas Guy Found Lines Written Painting Fine Hollywood Relation Historical Scripts Details Collections Museums Location Amusing Fine Arts Illustration Collages High Art Frankfurt

Author:John Baldessari

“I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog. The story that I bought it on the installment plan is untrue, the invention of a Hollywood press agent. Local color. I paid cash, $8, money I had saved as a hired hand on my uncle Calvin's farm, baling and stacking hay. Prairie hay, used as feed for the cattle in winter. It was mean work for a wiry boy, but ambition made me strong.”

“You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.”

People Hollywood Not Sure

Author:Rainn Wilson

“I think most Hollywood meetings are silly and I truly despise pitching. It's insane to expect someone to come in and tell you the story before they've written it, and buying an idea from someone who can explain it rather than write it is like choosing a mechanic based on his ability to draw a picture of your car's problem.”

Thinking Writing Ideas Stories Problem Ability Written Car Draws Hollywood Meetings Silly Insane Buying Despise Mechanic Pitching

Author:Jess Walter

“The days when the words Hollywood actor framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.”

Reality Seems Actors Party Hollywood Series Fingers Crowds Tea Extras Candidates Insult Tea Party Tag Framed Ham Bunnies Shameless Consultants Implied Pundits Quaint

Author:James Wolcott

“Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.”

Guy Saws Hollywood Violent

Author:Gene Hackman

“People get devalued in Hollywood when they age, despite all their efforts to stay relevant and beautiful and young. They can't get jobs anymore.”

People Age Jobs Beautiful Young Effort Hollywood Despite Relevant

Author:David LaChapelle

“That kind of friendship doesn't just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft-focus Hollywood haze. For it to last this long, and at such close quarters, some serious work had gone into it. Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as effortlessness.”

Kind Long Ends Shows Lasts Beautiful Moving Asks Morning Gone Focus Serious Hollywood Ice Dancer Live By Quarters Ballet Rainbow Ballet Dancer Haze Skater Jumpers Serious Work

Author:Tana French

“You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.”

Knows Years Dream Rooms Wonderful Goes On Clothes Picks Hollywood Dressings Dressing Rooms Wonderful Places

Author:Larry Hagman

“If you asked central casting in Hollywood for somebody to play the role of President, they'd send you John Connally.”

Ifs Art Play President Roles Hollywood Entertainment Casting

Author:Phil Crane

“Hollywood is a great place if you're an orange.”

Ifs Art Hollywood Entertainment Orange

Author:Fred Allen

“Mr. Cooper said to me that he had an idea for a film in mind. The only thing he'd tell me was that I was going to have the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood. Naturally, I thought of Clark Gable.”

Men Mind Art Said Ideas Film Hollywood Entertainment

Author:Fay Wray

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