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“When I first got out to Hollywood, they were pushing me for sitcoms, and I didn't really have an interest in them. I wanted to do films and slowly worked that way. And then it became, I guess, this curse of the leading man.”

Men Way Firsts Wanted Film Interest Hollywood Curse Pushing Sitcom

Author:Brad Pitt

“My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.”

World Kind Mother New York Scene Hollywood Theater Actresses Downtown

Author:Martha Plimpton

“The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally.”

Needs Looks Film Black Audience Messages Hollywood Impact Expressive

Author:Sidney Poitier

“Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.”

Fear Cities Hollywood Sickness Dread Anticipation

Author:Dirk Benedict

“I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.”

Song Lost Mass Hollywood Musical Productions Belts Mass Production

Author:Elvis Presley

“Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.”

Years Hollywood

Author:Elvis Presley

“It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.”

Way Matter Hollywood Phony

Author:Manuel Puig

“As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films.”

Might Film Enjoy Horror Hollywood My Favorite Italian Brides Horror Film Hollywood Films

Author:Johnny Ramone

“Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or getting to Hollywood - I was born next door.”

People Next Born Doors Hollywood Obsession

Author:Robert Redford

“Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would... make money.”

Firsts Felt Hollywood Down And Starting Making Money

Author:Robert Redford

“Hollywood is an illusion. These intense workplaces, with very close relationships, a few months at a time - and then it ends.”

Ends Months Illusion Hollywood Intense Workplace Close Relationship

Author:John C. Reilly

“You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense.”

Kind Long Hours Walking Hollywood Bigger Nonsense Trailers

Author:John C. Reilly

“Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.”

Funny Hollywood California Memorable Bathroom

Author:Candice Bergen

“Hollywood's just not funny.”

Funny Hollywood

Author:Chris Rock

“On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking.”

People Thinking Country States United Views United States Influence Hollywood Majority Entertainment Scales Magazines Tonight

Author:Kid Rock

“When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.”

World Littles Home School Grows High School Hollywood Towns Driving Circles Block Little Towns Home Town School Friends High School Friends

Author:Robert Rodriguez

“Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.”

Knows Process Know How Tough Hollywood

Author:Robert Rodriguez

“In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.”

People Ifs Writing Film Stuff Hollywood Woods

Author:Will Rogers

“In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.”

Enough Night Hollywood Olympics Night Time

Author:Will Rogers

“If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.”

Ifs Writing Film Pay Millions Failing Industry Succeed Hollywood Statistics Bucks Fart Film Industry

Author:George A. Romero

“Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.”

Hollywood Boxes

Author:Mickey Rourke

“In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.”

Ifs Funny Success Marriage Humorous Hollywood Witty Milk Congratulations Marriage Jokes Drink Milk

Author:Rita Rudner

“Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.”

Interest Hollywood Cinema Coming Out

Author:Salman Rushdie

“You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.”

People Ifs Knows Sleep Tvs Goes On Gay Hollywood Ashamed Whispering

Author:Adam Sandler

“There are conservatives in Hollywood who make good movies. They just don't make conservative movies because that's not what gets funded.”

Hollywood Conservative Good Movie

Author:Rick Santorum

“A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job.”

Jobs Lasts Hollywood

Author:Liev Schreiber

“I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time.”

Action Stars Hollywood Decades All Time

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.”

Wells Hollywood Athlete Plenty

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“What's fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.”

People Hollywood Fascinating Spend Time

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I want to be able to work on a project that will give people around the world the chance to represent their own people, their own culture, their own stories, rather than just Hollywood - really, you know, dominated Hollywood. And that's a dream of mine.”

People Knows World Want Giving Stories Dream Able Culture Chance Mines Projects Hollywood Around The World

Author:Steven Seagal

“In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best we can hope for.”

Age Film Hollywood Parks Honour Amusement Amusement Parks

Author:Will Self

“Cheerleading was my way in. It was one of the most rigorous audition processes ever. It definitely groomed me for Hollywood.”

Way Process Hollywood My Way Auditions Cheerleading

Author:Sarah Shahi

“If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.”

Ifs I Can Two Reason Sex Women Inspiring Hollywood Critics Refuse Obstacles Gender Resistance Cinema Filmmaker Movie Can't Change Famous Women Cinematography Movie Director

Author:Kathryn Bigelow

“I don't find the life in Hollywood all that meaningful or inspiring.”

Hollywood Meaningful

Author:Michael Sheen

“I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.”

Years Firsts Stories Would Be Reader Hollywood

Author:Sidney Sheldon

“My dad has been married to his wife for 15 years and wherever he goes there better be a seat for her. I like real couples that tell you how to get through on Wednesdays when you're just at the end of your rope - the ones who really know how to make it through. We have to stop looking at Hollywood couples because you're going to get disappointed.”

Knows Years Has Beens Real Ends Know How Wife Couple Dad Married Hollywood My Dad Seats Disappointed Rope Wednesday

Author:Sherri Shepherd

“I never really worked in Hollywood. Some American producers came to Europe to shoot films with me, so it's a different situation... It was not my aim.”

Different Film Situation Europe Hollywood Aim Producers

Author:Juliette Binoche

“The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.”

Artist Communication Hollywood Engaged Engagement Materialistic New Artists

Author:Patti Smith

“In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.”

Knows Mind Motivational Attitude Confidence Hollywood Lists Superstar Super Star

Author:Will Smith

“I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.”

Love America Black Hollywood

Author:Will Smith

“Hollywood large is so different than real-life large.”

Different Real Hollywood Real Life

Author:Jordin Sparks

“To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.”

Book Wanted Film Literature Honest Hollywood Blessed Studios Adapted

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.”

People World Needs Feels Wanted Difficult Laughing Cry Hollywood Smile Feel Good Movie Difficult Times Hollywood Movies Smile More

Author:Steven Spielberg

“Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous.”

Type Hollywood Budgets Squeezing

Author:Steven Spielberg

“A lot of Hollywood couples get married young and wind up growing out of their relationship.”

Young Growing Wind Couple Married Hollywood North Wind

Author:Patti Stanger

“I like the old, vintage Hollywood look.”

Looks Hollywood Vintage

Author:Gwen Stefani

“As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.”

Roles Hollywood Episodes Captains Dominant

Author:Patrick Stewart

“It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting.”

Havens Mets Hollywood Meetings Treated

Author:David Ogden Stiers

“I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.”

Years Lasts Hours Half Hollywood Meetings Remembered Old Hollywood

Author:David Ogden Stiers

“When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room and gave them popcorn. It was called 'Project Hollywood 2004' and it worked. I moved to L.A. in January of 2004.”

Years Made Parent Rooms Projects Hollywood Moved Invited Presentation January Popcorn Powerpoint

Author:Emma Stone

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