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“I'm not saying that it's wrong to make huge Hollywood films but it's just a different kind of feeling, a different sort of pleasure.”

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Author:Roger Michell

“I think it would be a problem if Hollywood was casting British actors only as villains; if that were the case, then certainly there would be cause for concern.”

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Author:Alfred Molina

“The great thing about it is, in Hollywood, certain people are very good at keeping their lives and who they are very private. I've never met anybody as down to earth and cool in Hollywood than Matt Damon.”

People Earth Certain Mets Hollywood Very Good Great Things Down To Earth Damon

Author:Anthony Mackie

“No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.”

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Author:Anthony Minghella

“I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe the world.”

Men World Want Stories Hollywood

Author:Bernie Mac

“Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.”

Practice Hollywood Towns Mediums Cinema

Author:Frank Miller

“When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue.”

Different Play Roles Happened Fronts Hollywood Things Happen Hello Queues

Author:Olivia Williams

“My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.”

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Author:Rita Wilson

“Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.”

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Author:Zhang Ziyi

“I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.”

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Author:Zhang Ziyi

“I really want to do something in Europe. With a small movie, it can be an interesting challenge. But I have to get the right project. I don't think it's so important to go to Hollywood. All that trash that comes out of there! I don't want to do that.”

Thinking Want Important Challenges Interesting Projects Europe Hollywood Trash

Author:Zhang Ziyi

“Working in Hollywood, it's clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole Japanese set. Only in Hollywood!”

Whole Technology Clear Hollywood More Money

Author:Zhang Ziyi

“I would be good for maybe not the center square but an upper square on 'Hollywood Squares.'”

Would Be Hollywood Be Good Squares

Author:John Hodgman

“Hollywood has unfortunately become a memory. It's nothing but a sign on the side of a hill.”

Sides Memories Hollywood Hills

Author:Mickey Rooney

“When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet new people, have new experiences. When I see Hollywood formulas mindlessly repeated, a little something dies inside of me: I have lost two hours to boors who insist on telling me stories I have heard before.”

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Book:Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007

Source: Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007

“The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, 'Who won the Oscar last year?'”

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Author:Cliff Robertson

“I don’t really like the Hollywood blockbuster bandwagon that exists right now. The industry and the advent of all the technology, has kind of lost its way. It’s become very franchise driven and superhero driven.”

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Author:Peter Jackson

“Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp.”

Giving Book Daughter Hollywood Our Daughter Your Daughter Pimp

Author:Tom Clancy

“Mother loathed the all-black B movies Hollywood made for the "colored" audience, where the stereotypes were broader and more offensive to her, and where the musical interludes did no justice to real talent, she said, but trivialized it.”

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Book:The Hottest Water in Chicago: Notes of a Native Daughter

Source: The Hottest Water in Chicago: Notes of a Native Daughter

“When I got to Hollywood, at first I couldn't get a lot of jobs. So I grew a beard and look like a really bad Arab, and I started to get a lot of work because that's what they want.”

Want Firsts Looks Jobs Grew Hollywood Beard

Author:Sayed Badreya

“The business can be frustrating. For me, Omaha is a rounding foundation. I was raised in a very faith-filled household, very hardworking. It made me aware of what privilege is. And it's a place I can go back to, spend time with nieces and nephews, celebrate the things that have nothing to do with the hubbub of Hollywood.”

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Author:Nicholas D'Agosto

“A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone's scared to take a chance. There's money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.”

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Author:Billy Eichner

“I always wanted to do a Hollywood story. The thing about actors, though, is that they go through a streak of roles. The question is, what's in between?”

Stories Wanted Actors Roles Hollywood Streaks

Author:Tom Folsom

“I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?”

Years Happens Three Stuff Cutting Happened Hollywood Three Years Stuff Happens

Author:Dana Fox

“The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before in film no longer have such plum options, so cable has done a good job of becoming a happy medium for artists deemed film actors.”

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Author:Omari Hardwick

“You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.”

Hollywood Treats Your Boyfriend

Author:Yunjin Kim

“I would like to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for giving me this wonderful opportunity to serve as Miss Golden Globe 2012.”

Giving Opportunity Wonderful Missing Hollywood Presses Golden Association Globes

Author:Rainey Qualley

“In Hollywood, most things are based on looks, so I'd love to do something that has nothing to do with how I look.”

Looks Hollywood

Author:Teri Polo

“If there was no Hollywood, no next movie, no deal at Warner Brothers, no place in Malibu or Venice, I would still be really happy.”

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Author:Susan Downey

“I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.”

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Author:Ralph Ellison

“So many young pets burn out in Hollywood, it's crazy.”

Young Crazy Hollywood Pet Burn Out

Author:Jason Gann

“I don't get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I've pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It's only now that I'm starting to read some Hollywood film scripts, and I've read some really great ones.”

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Author:Jason Gann

“There are no real guidelines or maps in Australia as to how to write a show, whereas in Hollywood it's where the TV industry is created and there's a lot of work that goes into development.”

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Author:Jason Gann

“Hollywood can be an ugly place and it can do ugly things to you.”

Can Do Hollywood Ugly Ugly Things

Author:Kelli Garner

“Hollywood is fickle; your career can end pretty fast. If the acting jobs dry up, you have to have something to fall back on. In fact, that would be my advice to kids interested in acting - make sure you get an education too.”

Ifs Ends Facts Would Be Kids Jobs Fall Acting Careers Advice Hollywood Dry Fall Back Fickle Dry Up

Author:Matthew Lawrence

“Being recognized by Hollywood is a dream true; it's really an amazing moment.”

Moments Dream Hollywood

Author:Thomas Langmann

“I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.”

Littles Hollywood Towns Backgrounds Ireland Broadway Little Towns Derry

Author:Damian McGinty

“It's very difficult to get your ideas to Hollywood if you're the average Joe or Jane. An agent wouldn't bother with you.”

Ifs Ideas Difficult Hollywood Average Agents Bother Jane Average Joe

Author:Bruce Nash

“Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worry for them. A girl I knew developed X-ray eyes for celebrity sorrows. She taught me to read the subtext of the down-market celebrity interview, she knew all the Hollywood codes, and followed the deep backgrounds.”

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Author:Peter York

“In the 1940s, cigarettes would be shown in classy situations, endorsed by celebrities - real A-list Hollywood stars in America - the ads would make claims about tobacco quality or manufacturing science and, bizarrely, some brands had what almost amounted to health claims.”

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Author:Peter York

“So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.”

Hollywood Wave Caught Caught Up

Author:Kitty Carlisle

“My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.”

People Ends Mother Terrible Hollywood Iniquity Dens

Author:Kitty Carlisle

“I've never been to Hollywood. I can count the number of times I've been to Los Angeles on my hands. I've never made a movie there and I've never been there for working reasons. The only reason to go there is for silly awards shows.”

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Author:Stephen Daldry

“My first book, Fast Forward, was about growing up in the shadow of Hollywood and how kids are affected by the culture of materialism and the cult of celebrity, and I've often felt the reason my work has an audience in the UK is because it's everything the British love to hate about the Americans.”

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Author:Lauren Greenfield

“Being a Chicano in Hollywood, my experience is that you're not given credit for any sophistication... You're just kind of some guy that just crossed the border, you know, on the back of a truck and that's it.”

Knows Kind Guy Given Hollywood Credit Borders Truck Sophistication

Author:Cheech Marin

“Because someone stole Gregory Peck's star on Hollywood Blvd., I have hired a Brink's guard to protect my star!”

Stars Protect Hollywood

Author:Rip Taylor

“I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star.”

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Author:Anna May Wong

“As Hollywood knows, I'm full of ideas.”

Knows Ideas Hollywood

Author:Dave Willis

“There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.”

Whole Speak Directors Hollywood Studios Discussion

Author:Baz Luhrmann

“The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard.”

Source: Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard

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