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“If we based everything in Hollywood on who was a nice guy, holy moly, we would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ruled by kindness and generosity.”

Ifs Guy Actors Kindness Nice Industry Holy Hollywood Generosity Nice Guy

Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.”

Use Film Hollywood Length Old Saying

Author:Ben Stiller

“In Hollywood, you can't say anything bad about anybody or everyone is going to attack you.”

Hollywood Say Anything

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“When I was younger, I was really anti-Hollywood. Now I'm more accepting of it because I'm less of a snob.”

Accepting Hollywood Chloe Snob

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“It's so crazy in Hollywood.”

Crazy Hollywood

Author:David Spade

“I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.”

Ifs Has Beens Actors Sports Fans Calling Hollywood Athlete Convinced Could Have Been Sports Fan Pro Athlete

Author:Jamie Foxx

“Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a little provincial and insular.”

Littles Sometimes America Hollywood Towns West Coast Small Town West Coast

Author:Howard Stringer

“Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.”

Kind Hollywood Extraordinary Temporary

Author:John Schlesinger

“I think there is an immense charm and humanity about the Bollywood structure, probably in the way there was about Hollywood film in the '30s and '40s. Somehow they were less distracted about hardware, and more about production values and people, you know?”

People Thinking Knows Way Film Values Humanity Hollywood Structure Productions Charm Immense Distracted Hardware Bollywood Hollywood Films

Author:Julian Sands

“I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent.”

Talent Youth Materials Perfection Hollywood Claims Lays

Author:Juliet Stevenson

“I learned Hollywood is a small community, and you really have to be a part of the community to get anything done. Unlike traditional industries, where you can do things from afar with phone calls and e-mail, this town is really about being social. Because that's how trust gets built.”

Done Social Can Do Community Industry Built Hollywood Towns Phones Traditional Mail Phone Calls Afar Small Communities

Author:Jeffrey Skoll

“Growing up in Hollywood, like I did, I have a passion and a love for the movies, so I go to the cinema all the time.”

Passion Growing Up Growing Hollywood Cinema

Author:Leonard Slatkin

“How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?”

Hollywood Strings New Yorkers Quartets String Quartets

Author:Leonard Slatkin

“It was a few days later I came out to Hollywood for a screen test, and so did a lot of other people. So, I really didn't think I would get it. I was definitely the one that was least likely to get it, because everyone else was an already established star.”

People Thinking Stars Tests Hollywood Screens

Author:Mary Steenburgen

“I'm a producer... I am a Hollywood producer. That is so weird. And it's not lame. But it's just like, how did that happen?”

Happens Hollywood Producers Lame

Author:Matt Stone

“I enjoyed living in Chicago and doing plays for little or no money. I never actually thought that I would leave Chicago, originally. I wasn't one of those people that had a plan to pack up the van and drive out to Hollywood. I didn't want to.”

People Want Littles Play Plans Hollywood Enjoyed Chicago Packs Vans No Money

Author:Michael Shannon

“There just are not a lot of overweight people in Hollywood.”

People Hollywood Overweight

Author:Nicole Sullivan

“Being a conservative in Hollywood is like walking into a shooting range with a bull's-eye attached to your body. There are more of us than you would believe, but if you want to keep working, you feel like you have to keep quiet.”

Ifs Want Feels Believe Body Eye Like You Walking Quiet Hollywood Conservative Your Body Shooting Range Bulls Shooting Range

Author:Pat Sajak

“You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.”

Knows Want Actors Musician Hollywood Nashville

Author:Richie Sambora

“Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business.”

Reality Life Is Three Morning Our Lives Members Perception Hollywood Get Up Meals Family Members Love Everyone

Author:Sissy Spacek

“It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.”

Feels Hands Difficult Hollywood Committees

Author:Zack Snyder

“The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving cars appear in countless science fiction movies. By Hollywood standards, they are so normal we don't even notice them. But in real life, they still don't exist. What if you could buy one today?”

Ifs Stills Real Self Today Fiction Car Elements Normal Standards Hollywood Science Fiction Driving Real Life What If Defining 1960s Knights Riders Science Fiction Movie Driving Cars

Author:Sebastian Thrun

“I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there.”

Desire Hollywood

Author:Audrey Tautou

“I've been in love with the cinema since childhood and it's a fantasy of mine to appear in a Hollywood movie.”

Fantasy Childhood Mines Hollywood Cinema Been In Love Hollywood Movies

Author:Bruno Tonioli

“I'm still waiting for my first big Hollywood paycheck... maybe I'll play a superhero.”

Firsts Stills Play Bigs Waiting Hollywood Superhero Paychecks

Author:Miles Teller

“I still pinch myself that I ended up in Hollywood. And I am still surprised at the fans.”

Stills Fans Hollywood

Author:Verne Troyer

“I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.”

Thinking Want Character Able Position Type Hollywood Tongue Bites Villain

Author:Gabrielle Union

“Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.”

Enough Seems Heard Expectations Hollywood Come Up

Author:Conrad Veidt

“My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.”

Firsts War Actors Speak Hollywood Opposition Vietnam Vietnam War Speaks Out

Author:Robert Vaughn

“At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London's West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect.”

Ends Age Wish Opinion Hollywood West London Treated Preparing Naive Jet Toasts Immature Youngsters West End

Author:Jack Wild

“What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.”

People Ifs Knows Wall Rivers Hollywood Sells Ass

Author:Joseph Wambaugh

“Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.”

Ifs Wells May Bigs Age Numbers Havens Hollywood Notion Ages Is Just A Number

Author:Kate Walsh

“Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature of American public life, and celebrities themselves were going to be worshipped as minor deities were in the ancient world. The idea was: if you could get them, think how many people would follow.”

People Ifs Thinking World Ideas Reason Church Understood Hollywood Ancient Features Minors Deities Public Life Scientology Ancient World

Author:Lawrence Wright

“You can get pigeonholed in Hollywood and people think of you in a certain way.”

People Thinking Way Certain Hollywood Think Of You

Author:Luke Wilson

“When I was a teenager, my dad used to call me 'Hollywood' because I wore sunglasses all the time, even at night. Cue song.”

Used Night Song Dad Hollywood My Dad Teenager Call Me Sunglasses

Author:Michael Weatherly

“National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.”

Shows Feelings Film Moving Industry Right Now Hollywood Cinema Australia Cycles Mislead Film Industry

Author:Peter Weir

“I'm tired of explaining to Hollywood that people would laugh at me, because I go around America making them laugh every week. Nobody would be offended, nobody would think my leather pants are too controversial.”

People Thinking Would Be America Laughing Week Hollywood Tired Pants Offended Explaining Controversial Leather I'm Tired Leather Pants

Author:Jen Kirkman

“I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible.”

Watches Honesty Hollywood Lectures Hypocrite Gangsters

Author:Vance Havner

“I think it’s important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here is only a tiny slice out of the massive amount of operation that goes on around the world.”

Thinking World Important Facts Forget Goes On Amount Hollywood Tiny Around The World Operations Cinema Massive Filmmaking

Author:Mike Leigh

“I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.”

Done Character Film Stuff Roles Tvs Type Hollywood Theater Leading Ladies

Author:Sanaa Lathan

“I think Hollywood is so driven by money, the people who are making the decisions are not necessarily reflective of the melting pot, so what stories are you going to want to tell? You're going to want to tell stories about yourself.”

People Thinking Want Stories Decision Hollywood Driven Pot About Yourself Melting Melting Pot

Author:Sanaa Lathan

“I believe 'Hollywood' is more like middle America than many people imagine.”

People Believe America I Believe Imagine Middle Hollywood Middle America

Author:Steven Levitan

“Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens.”

Happens Hollywood Bad Movies

Author:Thomas Lennon

“People don’t talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it’s not an incredibly safe place to do it.”

People Safe Hollywood Safe Places

Author:Zachary Levi

“You know, Hollywood is a very interesting town - always has been, always will be.”

Knows Has Beens Interesting Hollywood Towns Very Interesting

Author:Zachary Levi

“As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.”

Artist Talking Hollywood Obscure Not Talking

Author:Christian Marclay

“Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.”

People Ends Dream Grows Growing Up Hollywood

Author:Elizabeth McGovern

“North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.”

Hollywood Valleys Glamorous

Author:Elizabeth McGovern

“I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one.”

Hollywood Jew

Author:Jean-Marie Messier

“Hollywood's full of transients. Everybody comes from somewhere else.”

Hollywood Somewhere Else

Author:Poppy Montgomery

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