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“Well cult is a word you would never say in Hollywood. In any film business, if you're trying to get your next film made, you would never say, "Oh, my last film was a cult film." I'd say, "Oh great, well I hope this one isn't!"”

Ifs Trying Wells Made Lasts Film Next Hollywood Cult

Author:John Waters

“Even being close to L.A., I was always inspired by old movies and Marilyn Monroe and the glamour of Hollywood.”

Hollywood Inspired Glamour Old Movie

Author:Gwen Stefani

“In Hollywood - and indeed, the world - a lot of women only think about themselves in the context of men. It's truly sad.”

Thinking Men World Hollywood

Author:Emma Stone

“I've always been altering clothing my entire life. But I would have to say my first real amateur endeavor would have to be drawing, designing and then literally cutting and sewing every piece of costume for my first band I formed in Hollywood.”

Firsts Real Pieces Cutting Design Band Hollywood Drawing Endeavor Clothings Costumes Sewing

Author:Ashley Purdy

“When you're in Hollywood and you're a comedian, everybody wants you to do other things. All right, you're a stand-up comedian, can you write us a script? That's not fair. That's like if I worked hard to become a cook, and I'm a really good cook, they'd say, "OK, you're a cook. Can you farm?"”

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Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy.”

Want Art Stars Fantasy Hollywood Ruins Dressings Rubbish Gowns Hollywood Stars

Author:Sarah Brightman

“I remember people saying to us, "You're too nice. Hollywood is going to eat you up and spit you out." I never listened to them.”

People Remember Nice Hollywood Spit Too Nice

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“I'm just really excited to promote the movie [I know The Chair ] and the show in a different way, and not just the typical Hollywood way, which I don't think I'll ever fit into.”

Thinking Knows Way Different Shows Fit Hollywood Excited Different Ways Chairs Typical

Author:Shane Dawson

“Movies in general are more generic. If something sells just make more. That's Hollywood.”

Ifs Hollywood Sells Generic Movies In General

Author:Rob Zombie

“Making a Hollywood film you don't have a very big movie because they have a Safety Captain and insurance people on the set. They have to check first. 'Don't do it. Let me check. Make sure everything is safe.'”

People Firsts Bigs Film Safe Hollywood Let Me Safety Checks Captains Big Movie Hollywood Films

Author:Jackie Chan

“I would definitely like to continue my career in Hollywood, work hard and do my best.”

Hard Careers Hard Work Hollywood

Author:Rain

“I'm not a big Hollywood star. I'm an actor. I'm called a star. That's not what I am. First of all I'm a human being; my profession is acting. People give you titles. They say you're an up and coming star, then they say you're a star, then they say you're a washed-up star. So I don't get caught up in what I'm called. My job, my profession, is acting.”

People Giving Firsts Humans Bigs Jobs Actors Stars Human Beings Acting Hollywood Caught Profession Titles Caught Up Hollywood Stars

Author:Denzel Washington

“Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.”

Film Influence Direct Hollywood Madly In Love Good Influences

Book:Conversations with Ray Bradbury

Source: Conversations with Ray Bradbury

“I don't make movies. I don't feel that I have to have artistic control. Part of this comes from the fact that the book lives on no matter what Hollywood does to your novel in terms of a film. Now, you try to be careful who you allow to do your film because nobody wants their novel to become a turkey movie. But, on the other hand, it is a crapshot anyway, because even the best people can make a bad film.”

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Author:Stephen King

“Hollywood's a business, and until someone puts their finger on you and decides you're the guy who's going to carry that movie, it's not going to happen.”

Happens Guy Hollywood Fingers

Author:Anthony Mackie

“Maybe people [in Hollywood] wear really nice clothes, and they drive really nice cars, but that doesn't make me comfortable. And if I'm not comfortable, it won't be a part of my life.”

People Ifs Nice Car Comfortable Clothes Hollywood Really Nice Nice Cars Nice Clothes

Author:Amanda Seyfried

“Unfortunately, we live our life in public, so any weight gain or pimple is a national story. I don't get this obsession with weight. It's not only Hollywood; it's our society.”

Stories Our Lives Gains Hollywood Weight Obsession Our Society Pimples

Author:Eva Longoria

“The girls are beautiful in Hollywood - and enough silicon to caulk a sink.”

Enough Humor Funny Beautiful Girl Hollywood Silicon

Author:Adam Ferrara

“Gluten free pizza elicits the same response at a hollywood party that a pile of cocaine did in the 80's.”

Humor Funny Party Hollywood Response Pizza Cocaine Gluten Gluten Free

Author:Natasha Leggero

“It's very difficult to get any movies done about Black heroes - Haitian or American - in Hollywood. The argument in Hollywood is that there is no market for those movies, and that is not true.”

Done Difficult Black Hero Argument Hollywood Haitian

Author:Jimmy Jean-Louis

“Human beings are not like they are portrayed in Hollywood. They are individuals who are a mixture of good and bad.”

Humans Individual Human Beings Hollywood Good And Bad Mixtures

Author:Jack Higgins

“What I would suggest to the young people is to not forget this and don't try to get assimilated into today's Hollywood style of movies because I don't think it's going to last long.”

People Thinking Trying Long Today Lasts Young Forget Style Hollywood

Author:Vilmos Zsigmond

“Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!”

Eating Hollywood Bread Eating Bread

Author:Viola Davis

“The internal sexism within womanhood is very predominant in Hollywood, because we all want to be successful. There's a plug to it: You all have to be skinny! You all have to be pretty! You all have to be likable, because that's the formula that works. On an executive level. On a power level. And it's not always the same working with black people, because of the internalized racism. The colorism.”

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Author:Viola Davis

“Steve Jobs is perhaps the most competitive human being I have ever met in my life, and yet I would argue one of the most artistic human beings I have ever met in my life. You can trash the movies all you want, but they do have an artistic component. And yet brutal competition knows no peers when it comes to Hollywood.”

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Author:Tom Peters

“In Hollywood everything is formatted, everything is compulsory, so therefore we have to follow the law of benefits and profit and money, let us say the law of Hollywood.”

Law Benefits Hollywood Profit Compulsory

Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet

“Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content.”

Political Desire Hollywood

Author:Melvin Van Peebles

“I like to say, in Hollywood, you can't make a redneck movie without me. That doesn't happen. You better not do it.”

Happens Hollywood Redneck

Author:David Koechner

“Films are made all over the world all the time and only a thin slice of that product is Hollywood.”

World Made Film Products Hollywood

Author:Mike Leigh

“I know, that trends and all of those things and formulae that calculate what audiences want to see and what audiences don't want to see and various other demographic demarcations are the eccentric and ludicrous prerogative of Hollywood studios. But out there in the real world - by which I mean the rest of the world where we make truthful organic films, independent films unimpeded by interference - it's not about all those sort of calculating what is commercial. It's about wanting to say things and saying them in a way that will get through to people.”

“I grew up looking at... going to the movies a lot, as much as they'd let you. I grew up in Manchester in the north of England in the '40s and '50s. I saw a lot of movies. They were all Hollywood and British movies. I didn't see a film that wasn't in English until I was 17 when I went to London to be a student.”

Film Saws Students Grew Grew Up Hollywood England British London Manchester

Author:Mike Leigh

“Since Hollywood seems to be more interested in people wearing tights and using powers, there seems to be a fertile ground for movies about real human beings.”

People Humans Real Seems Human Beings Hollywood Fertile Real Human Tights Fertile Ground

Author:Ramin Bahrani

“If Hollywood is the global producer for [media] products all around the world, that's of concern. If all audiences around the world know of America is what they see from Hollywood, then we're in trouble.”

Ifs Knows World America Audience Trouble Media Products Concern Hollywood Producers Around The World

Author:Arthur Dong

“To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.”

Men Humans Art Universe Behavior Hollywood Function Considering Irrational Human Behavior Unpredictable Frailty

Author:William Faulkner

“The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.”

Funny Film Stars Ambition Married Hollywood Average Cute Movie Italian Englishmen Boyfriend Film Stars Hollywood Films Hollywood Stars

Author:Katharine Hepburn

“Ever since I arrived in America to promote Stoker, I haven't had time to go and see it in a theater. The fact that I had to shoot twice as fast as I'm used to in Korea was the most challenging thing about my Hollywood experience.”

Facts America Used Challenges Havens Hollywood Theater Korea Stoker

Author:Park Chan-wook

“I think I just wanted to work when I finally came to Hollywood. That's what it was. I wanted to get a job, and then I wanted to get the second one.”

Thinking Wanted Jobs Hollywood

Author:Kevin Costner

“I accept that appearance is a big thing in this business. But being around Hollywood and having actor friends and doing music videos, it does make you more aware of how you look. With music videos they send you rough cuts, and in certain frames of me, I just see a nose advert.”

Looks Doe Bigs Certain Actors Accepting Cutting Hollywood Appearance Video Noses Rough Big Things Adverts

Author:Michael Bolton

“In Hollywood I got work but not the right work until Pushing Daisies. Every girl in LA wanted the part of Chuck. I was terrified - I didn't know if I could be funny.”

Ifs Knows Wanted Girl Hollywood If I Could Pushing Terrified Chuck Daisies Every Girl

Author:Anna Friel

“Hollywood. It lacks originality. Remake sucks.' But I had to look deeper into it from my own perspective. We are not trying to compete with the original at all and that's what allowed me to pull the trigger without any hesitancy.”

Trying Looks My Own Perspective Hollywood Originals Deeper Originality Triggers Remakes

Author:Colin Farrell

“There was a part of me that felt afraid of people in Hollywood going: '**** Hollywood with their total lack of originality!'.”

People Felt Hollywood Originality

Author:Colin Farrell

“I've always been an ajumma, but when you get older, the culture we were brought up in works in our favor where aging is good, combatting the Hollywood idea that aging is bad. I'm very grateful for that.”

Ideas Culture Hollywood Grateful Aging Favors

Author:Margaret Cho

“America's cultural table is set by the people living in the three bubbles - New York Washington D.C. and Hollywood.”

People Christian America Three Leadership Church New York Hollywood Tables Bubbles

Author:Mike Huckabee

“Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.”

Feels Streets Confidence Walking Hollywood Togetherness Walking Away

Author:Robin Wright

“I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood.”

Term Successful Hollywood

Author:Robin Wright

“There are plenty of lesbians in Hollywood, but they're not out. And that's their choice, but I can't do that, it's too important to me.”

I Can Important Choices Hollywood Plenty

Author:Jill Bennett

“The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry, a marketing industry. In doing this, the audiences have lost touch with the aspects of film which were to be informative and educational and even spiritual.”

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Author:Brian Cox

“It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.”

Real Happens Running Risk Hollywood Real Life Being Real

Author:Candice Bergen

“Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.”

Thinking Giving Should Years Mind Work Materials Hollywood Meetings Oscars

Author:William Goldman

“In Hollywood, maybe only ten percent will make it and the other ninety percent try. This elusive dream of making it and being on top is the same story as the moth being drawn to the flame. The flame and it's attractiveness is something you'll never eliminate. Some will learn how to live in that environment and others will burn in it.”

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Author:Conrad Hall

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