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“It's tough when take 1 is technically okay and take 2 has better acting. Out here (Hollywood) they print the first one. That's the one where we all hit the mark on the floor and who cares about the acting.”

Firsts Care Acting Tough Okay Hollywood Mark Print Who Cares Acting Out

Author:Judy Holliday

“Gear is money, and if there’s one thing we know about Hollywood, it’s that money talks.”

Ifs Knows One Thing Hollywood Gears Money Talks

Author:Elle Schneider

“I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.”

Writing Comedy Hollywood Satire Writing Comedy

Author:Stephen Gaghan

“The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.”

Years Film Development Hollywood Average Studios Nine Abstract Nine Years Hollywood Movies

Author:Stephen Gaghan

“My memoir is being published by Beaufort Books and will be available fall of 2015. Its about my unusual life as a child actor and how I made the unpopular choice to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.”

Children Made Book Choices Fall Actors Grows Growing Up Hollywood Available Memoir Pretending Unusual Child Actors

Author:Lisa Jakub

“My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.”

Film Grows Decision Growing Up Hollywood Memoir My Time Pretending

Author:Lisa Jakub

“Ive always had a booty even when I was a baby, and when I was in high school and was skinny, I still had the booty. In Hollywoods eyes, the perfect women has to be a stick figure, tall, blonde hair, with big boobs.”

Stills Bigs Eye School Perfect Figures Hair Baby High School Hollywood Sticks Tall Skinny Blonde Booty Blonde Hair Perfect Woman

Author:Coco Austin

“Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.”

Ideas Imagine Terrible Hollywood Likes Copies Robots

Author:Colin Angle

“I was a crazy guy in Hollywood back in the day, and then when I switched into theater I got into work mode.”

Guy Crazy Hollywood Theater Back In The Day

Author:Scott Haze

“I can tell you as a fact that if you'd asked anyone in Hollywood one year before 'Pirates of the Caribbean' had come out, they'd have told you the pirate movie was a dead genre. And it's not that it's a dead genre. If you make a bad pirate movie, no one will want to see it. If you make a good one, everyone will want to see it.”

Ifs Want Years I Can Facts Hollywood Genre Pirate Caribbean

Author:Dean Devlin

“Paramount Pictures is a perfect partner for Electric Entertainment, with the most stable group of executives in Hollywood and unparalleled global promotion and distribution reach.”

Perfect Groups Hollywood Entertainment Partners Executives Stable Electric Distribution Promotion Paramount Perfect Partner

Author:Dean Devlin

“Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.”

People Taste Hollywood Flocks Acquired Taste

Author:Shawn Amos

“The military has a very long relationship with Hollywood that dates back to the silent film era.”

Long Film Military Hollywood Silent Eras Long Relationship Silent Films

Author:Nick Turse

“I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.”

Realizing Attention Directors Hollywood Independent Filmmaker Sensibility Contradictory Attention Span Short Attention Spans

Author:Doug Liman

“Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.”

Dog Hollywood

Author:Christopher McQuarrie

“I may be the only actress in Hollywood who won't need a face lift, because when I take off my makeup, I look so great compared to my characters!”

Needs Looks May Character Faces Hollywood Actresses Lifts Makeup

Author:Lin Shaye

“The ultimate idea of rags-to-riches success in America is the Hollywood movie star.”

Ideas America Stars Hollywood Ultimate Riches Movie Star Rags Hollywood Movies Rags To Riches

Author:Marin Ireland

“I would love to play Wonder Woman; I have the abilities and the strength because I am definitely not the typical Hollywood actress.”

Play Ability Wonder Hollywood Actresses Typical Wonder Woman

Author:Nadia Bjorlin

“I'm not going to say I'm a big girl. I'm a very small person, but I'm a healthy weight. That might be a little weird for Hollywood.”

Littles Persons Bigs Might Girl Healthy Hollywood Weight Big Girl Small Person Healthy Weight

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“Hollywood is like an empty wastebasket.”

Empty Hollywood

Author:Ginger Rogers

“I saw Hollywood born and I've seen it die...”

Dies Born Saws Hollywood

Author:Mary Pickford

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

Ifs Comedy Hollywood England

Author:Bob Hope

“Some of my favorite movies are Hollywood movies. Hollywood is part of the cinematic spectrum. I nurture a healthy love-hate relationship with Hollywood.”

Hate Healthy Hollywood My Favorite Nurture Spectrum Love Hate Cinematic Hollywood Movies Love Hate Relationship Love And Hate Relationship Healthy Love

Author:Mike Leigh

“One of the reasons the whole Hollywood way of making films wouldn't work for me is because the way I operate would be anathema to anyone who wants to hold a job down in Beverly Hills.”

Way Want Reason Whole Would Be Jobs Film Hollywood Hills Beverly Hills Anathema

Author:Mike Leigh

“The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame.”

Made Problem Film Directors Hollywood

Author:Mike Leigh

“A lot of the reasons that I'm resistant to making films in the U.S. have nothing to do with not doing a film in Hollywood, but rather to do with what I'm committed to working on in the U.K. I feel very committed to the British film industry and infrastructure.”

Feels Reason Film Industry Hollywood Committed British Infrastructure Film Industry British Film

Author:Mike Leigh

“The whole Hollywood conception of Tibet as this peace-loving country denies the complex humanity of the Tibetan people. Their ideas exist in a high degree of tension with impulses toward corruption, toward violence, toward all sorts of things. The Dalai Lama himself would say that he has to fight these impulses himself on a daily basis.”

People Ideas Country Whole Humanity Fighting Violence Degrees Hollywood Bases Complexes Corruption Deny Impulse Tension Conception Tibetan Lama Tibet Dalai

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“It never occurred to me to be a film director, partly because I hadn't seen a single film by a female director, but I liked the idea of being a writer moving to Hollywood and being unhappy; that sounded romantic and fabulous to me.”

Ideas Film Moving Directors Female Hollywood Unhappy Fabulous Film Directors Being Unhappy

Author:Mary Harron

“I grew up interested in the underside of Hollywood, which I think David Lynch does really well.”

Thinking Wells Doe Grew Grew Up Hollywood

Author:Mary Harron

“The good part of working in TV is it's like being a studio director in old Hollywood and approaching different genres. It's a chance to try out different styles.”

Trying Different Chance Style Tvs Directors Hollywood Studios Genre Different Styles Different Genres Old Hollywood

Author:Mary Harron

“I was born in the same town as Richard Burton, the actor, and I saw him, he used to come - he and his wife drove by in the car in my father's shop and Burton would come home from Hollywood and ask him for his autograph, and I thought, I want to be like him. And that's all I said to myself, I want to be like that. I want to get out of this environment of my own empty mind.”

Want Mind Said Home Used Actors Asks Father Born My Own Environment Saws Wife Car Empty Hollywood Towns Shops Coming Home Autographs Empty Mind

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“I've never considered myself to be naturally funny and it wasn't until I booked my first few jobs in Hollywood that I started thinking, "I guess I'm funny."”

Thinking Firsts Jobs Hollywood

Author:Erick Chavarria

“I'm surprised that Hollywood and networks have not been diverse as other industries.”

Industry Hollywood Diverse

Author:Spike Lee

“Making movies is just as much of a game. They say Hollywood is like high school with money.”

School Games High School Hollywood

Author:Kristen Stewart

“Hollywood's thinking is very typical. And it's just really predictable too. And I think at Hollywood, these box office movies are flopping. I mean, there hasn't been an original thought coming out of Hollywood since the '80s.”

Thinking Mean Office Hollywood Originals Boxes Coming Out Typical 80s Predictable Box Office Original Thought Flopping

Author:Andrea Tantaros

“Hollywood screenwriters tend to have the longevity of NFL running backs. So the truth is no one can put more pressure on us than we put on ourselves.”

Running Truth Is Hollywood Pressure Nfl Longevity Screenwriters Running Back

Author:David Benioff

“I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.”

White Hollywood Afterlife Imitation

Author:Lena Horne

“My first memoir, 'Home,' was about my childhood, early training and formative years in the Theater, i am so pleased that my good friends at the Hachette Book Group have encouraged me to share the next phase of my life, beginning with my arrival in Hollywood and the wonderful movies and television programs I was asked to be a part of.”

Life Years Firsts Book Home Next Wonderful Groups Share Childhood Television Training Program Hollywood Theater Memoir Phases Good Friend Arrivals Formative Years

Author:Julie Andrews

“Let's be honest, I don't think anyone ever wants to settle down in Hollywood - it's a place you go to work. And once you've hit it, you get out of there as soon as you can. It's definitely not a place you want to get married and have kids.”

Thinking Want Kids Honest Married Hollywood Being Honest Settling Settling Down Places You Go

Author:Sophie Monk

“There's only five real people in Hollywood. Everyone else is Mel Blanc.”

People Real Five Hollywood Mel Blanc

Author:Jack Benny

“When people refer to me as a 'regular' girl...it's code word for 'fat' in Hollywood....But...my body has chosen its shape. I'd rather be strong than skinny.”

People Body Girl Strong Shapes Hollywood Chosen Fats Code Skinny

Author:Anne Hathaway

“I've seen it too many times in Hollywood. Talking about a relationship in public can jinx it. And if you have your picture taken together, you might as well start packing your bags.”

Ifs Wells Might Together Talking Taken Hollywood Bags Packing Picture Taken Jinx

Author:Gina Gershon

“I tell people, 'It's just like a cliche, but it's true: In Hollywood, dreams can come true.'”

People Dream Hollywood Cliche Dreams Can Come True

Author:Michael Clarke Duncan

“Hollywood is in the perception business where you create layers to create mystery. In Silicon Valley it's about taking away the layers to get to the substance.”

Mystery Perception Hollywood Substance Valleys Layers Silicon Silicon Valley

Author:MC Hammer

“I've worked in almost every other place in Canada except Toronto, funny enough, where my husband's from. The first time I was here it was winter, and I got engaged. The second time I was here it was summer, and I was married. My family lives here, my stepson lives here, so it's a wonderful place. Everyone's very nice and hospitable, unlike Hollywood.”

Firsts Enough Nice Wonderful Husband Summer Married First Time My Family Hollywood Winter Engaged Canada My Husband Family Life Very Nice Toronto Wonderful Places Stepsons

Author:Tori Spelling

“Hollywood has always been good to me. I've never blamed Hollywood for my problems.”

Problem Hollywood

Author:Willie Aames

“I never thought Hollywood is the life I want to do. I thought acting is the life I want to do.”

Want Acting Hollywood

Author:Shailene Woodley

“I think that winning the battle in Hollywood is a necessary condition to winning the culture war.”

Thinking War Culture Winning Conditions Battle Hollywood

Author:Jason Jones

“I could not flourish in the Hollywood system because the first thing spoken about is "What genre is it?" and "Who's it for?" It's a very strange question to me; it's for human beings.”

Firsts Humans Human Beings Strange Hollywood Genre Genre Is

Author:Conor McPherson

“I don't feel so strongly against remakes, but if I don't like it, I guess I just don't do it. It is what it is. Hollywood is driven by the financial system, so if they think that it has a brand and people are going to go see it because it's a recognizable property, they're going to remake it.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Hollywood Property Financial Driven Brands Remakes It Is What It Is Financial System

Author:James Wan

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