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“All these kids in Hollywood, the people born and raised out here, their parents are all in show business, and that's why I think we're good. That's why we're on top of the game now because we were born in it.”

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Author:Pauly Shore

“I live in Hollywood, but you can't make me love Hollywood. I'll never love Hollywood.”

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Author:Lady Gaga

“I look at going to Hollywood as going behind enemy lines. You parachute in, set up the explosion, then fly out before it goes off.”

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Author:Robert Redford

“Heroes aren't athletes who set new sports records, or Hollywood actors who make 'daring' films or politicians who make bold promises. Heroes are people who place themselves at risk for the benefit of others.”

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Author:Oliver North

“In Hollywood, people get reputations, just rumors that are passed down.”

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Author:Jason Statham

“I didn't come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it's sickening.”

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Author:Mr. T

“I was very young, maybe five. The opera was very... I was attracted to opera to the point that I think it's the reason I started to write music for films. I never studied. There are film and music school that teach you how to write music. I never studied that. But the influence of opera, which is a combination of storyline, visuals, staging, plus music... that was perhaps the best school I could have had. That's what gave me the idea of coming to Hollywood to write music for films.”

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Author:Lalo Schifrin

“After moving to Los Angeles in the early '90s, I started looking into "music for picture" more seriously and in broader scope. My collaboration as a programmer and arranger with Graeme Revell exposed me for the first time to the full spectrum of film music, including the hectic demands of orchestral scoring and the power politics surrounding the finalization of any score for a major motion picture in Hollywood.”

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Author:Paul Haslinger

“Whenever Hollywood makes films about us, it's 12 Years a Slave or The Butler or The Help. That is not the sum total of who we are as a people.”

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Author:Mo Abudu

“One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career.”

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Author:Bette Davis

“Ask anyone in America where the craziest people live and they'll tell you California. Ask anyone in California where the craziest people live and they'll say Los Angeles. Ask anyone in Los Angeles where the craziest people live and they'll tell you Hollywood. Ask anyone in Hollywood where the craziest people live and they'll say Laurel Canyon. And ask anyone in Laurel Canyon where the craziest people live and they'll say Lookout Mountain. So I bought a house on Lookout Mountain.”

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Author:Joni Mitchell

“They say that in Hollywood one can't be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.”

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Author:Bette Davis

“You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films.”

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Author:Amitabh Bachchan

“There isn't any question that Hollywood is profit driven. Anybody that thinks it isn't is a fool. It's a business. Hollywood was never philanthropy. The only purpose it had was making money; the only purpose it still has is to make money.”

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Author:Sydney Pollack

“Hollywood was set up by a bunch of businessmen. They do not see their job as being philanthropists. I don't think it's a contradiction in terms to attempt to be a good businessman and to also be liberal.”

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Author:Sydney Pollack

“With the pay gap in Hollywood, I think it's very easy to say - 'oh, what are they complaining for? They're making millions of dollars.' But by having a woman in the industry do this, it's easier for others to see it.”

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Author:Debby Ryan

“I live in the Hollywood Hills. When I see a cop driving around there, I actually assume that he has my best interests at heart and that he has the best interests of my property at heart. I think if you'd go to Pasadena, they'd say the same thing. And I think if you knocked on doors in Glendale and asked them, they'd say the same thing.”

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Author:Quentin Tarantino

“A lot of people come to quote-unquote Hollywood thinking that all they just have to be different or do something outlandish or have a huge personality to become a star. But I think that if you just focus on the craft, you'll have a better chance at longevity.”

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Author:Morris Chestnut

“When people think about this religion, they'll say "voodoo" this and "voodoo" that in the way the Hollywood movies show it: the sticking of pins in dolls. It's very different than Vodou - which is a religion that comes to Haiti from our ancestors in Africa. I want to differentiate it from the stereotypical, sensationalized view that we see of the religion.”

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Author:Edwidge Danticat

“A lot of us have been raised with the Bible and with movies from Hollywood to believe that God shouts down from the heavens or appears in a burning bush. It's always so dramatic and kind of scary. So that's what we all expect when we're asking God for some answers.”

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Author:Echo Bodine

“In my mind what novels do best is that they immerse us deeply into our character's world - they truly transport us deep into these spaces - but the same way you know a Hollywood movie won't end after thirty minutes, you carry in yourself the implicit contract that the novel won't throw you out of itself 'til the very end. That bulk of pages is a form of consolation, of security.”

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Author:Junot Diaz

“I don't really know Hollywood, and I think that L.A. needs a bit of time to really know the city, because it's such a huge city.”

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Author:Audrey Tautou

“I'm just in work mode, and that prevents me from going into the Hollywood starlet mode, I suppose.”

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Author:Scarlett Johansson

“I'm 27 years old. I'm going to go into Hollywood really arrogant. I'll be breaking a lot of rules. It's going to be hot.”

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Author:Wyclef Jean

“Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.”

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Author:Kevin Hart

“Comedy Central was a great network, but 'Chappelle's Show' took it to a completely different level. Other shows got bigger because so many viewers were watching the 'Chappelle' reruns. For BET, the 'Real Husbands of Hollywood' has that same potential.”

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Author:Kevin Hart

“When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.”

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Author:Kevin Hart

“I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.”

Knows Goes On Hollywood

Author:Nathan Lane

“I think about never losing my voice, never giving in, never selling out, always keeping black, always sticking to the street. Staying neighborhood and not Hollywood.”

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Book:Black Is the New White

Source: Black Is the New White

“When they were making black films in the '60s and the '70s, everyone knew their place, if you get my drift. You understand? Everyone knew the rules, and everyone knew their place. Everyone knew what to say. They had the written rules in Hollywood film, and the unwritten rules.”

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Author:Paul Mooney

“What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.”

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Author:Paul Mooney

“When you know who you are, you know who you are. That's the real dangerous thing in Hollywood, because they all want to create you and mold you.”

Knows Want Real Dangerous Hollywood Who You Are Mold Dangerous Things

Author:Paul Mooney

“The primary job for women in Hollywood is still super-attractive actress. That is the most high-profile women's job in Hollywood.”

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Author:Diablo Cody

“Being anti-war in Hollywood was an act of bravery on the order of the keynote speaker at a PLO dinner making jokes about Ariel Sharon.”

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Book:Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism

Source: Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism

“My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it's a vacation destination for me. I say, 'Because I sometimes have perfect days there.'”

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Author:Ben Stein

“When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.”

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Author:Ben Stein

“Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.”

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Author:Ben Stein

“Hollywood liberals could not be reached for comment on the cost of the inauguration because they were being fitted for gowns and jewelry worth millions of dollars in anticipation of Oscar night.”

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Author:Ann Coulter

“I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.”

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Author:Richard Armitage

“Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the "best" American higher criticism.”

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Author:Camille Paglia

“Once physical beauty is gone there must be something more to take its place . . . 'To thine ownself be true' is a rule to live by in Hollywood, especially. There's a strong undercurrent of conformity in the movie colony that one must fight all the time. I think this especially true when it comes to fashion, beauty and grooming.”

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Author:Glenn Ford

“I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.”

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Author:Eddie Marsan

“I've made humanitarian causes and my children much more my priority than the Hollywood scene, being liked and getting movie parts.”

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Author:Sharon Stone

“I was just excited by the whole prospect of working in a television series in Hollywood. I had never anticipated that as an actor I would ever end up here. It may be some sort of fantasy I'd thought about from time to time, but it was completely unrealistic.”

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Author:Patrick Stewart

“There are definitely roles within this industry that are industry-related, but to be a good actor, you really have to want to act first. At the same time, my goal was never to go to Hollywood to make movies. I think if you come here with that attitude, then you've missed a few steps.”

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Author:Anthony Edwards

“What's considered ideal in Hollywood is completely different than anywhere else in the world. I don't think you can aspire to it, nor can I. Everybody is retouched, stretched, lengthened, slimmed and trimmed. I could look at a picture of myself from the past and think, 'Why don't I look like that now?' It's because I never have!”

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Author:Kate Beckinsale

“I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.”

Careers Hollywood

Author:Russell Peters

“I don't need Hollywood. With or without them, I'll be fine. But I'll admit it would be nice to have them on board.”

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Author:Russell Peters

“You know, marriage is making a big comeback. I know personally that in Hollywood people are marrying people they never married before.”

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Author:Bob Hope

“In Hollywood they say there's no business like show business. In the hood they say there's no business like ho' business.”

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Author:Curtis Jackson

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