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“Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars' worth of product overseas. Original, new product. Some people might not agree that it's original or new, but basically it is.”

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Author:George Clooney

“My parents were disappointed I didn't finish college, and they were really upset when I went to Hollywood to become an actor. I was a big disappointment to them.”

Bigs Actors Parent College Hollywood Disappointment Upset Disappointed

Author:George Clooney

“In Hollywood, I'm obese. I'm considered a fat actress. I eat like a caveman. I'll be the only actress that doesn't have anorexia rumors! I'm never going to starve myself for a part. I'm invincible. I don't want little girls to be like "Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I'm going to skip dinner!"”

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Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“Hollywood Joohn Tatum? He does at least 6,000 sit ups and 10,000 pushups a day!”

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Author:Scott D. Anthony

“There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.”

People Rooms Hollywood Sexy Eccentricity

Author:Rachel Weisz

“On how he spent his first Hollywood paycheck "I think my first big purchase was actually for my mom. She had one of those '90s TVs in her living room that's like a 10×10 brick, so I purchased her a flatscreen for her living room.”

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Author:Dave Franco

“Hollywood wants to make women so perfect. Perfect hair. Perfect job. Perfect manners... I know some of the most beautiful women, and they are so weird. That's what makes them funny and captivating.”

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Author:Melissa McCarthy

“If a young woman is looking at the landscape of Hollywood, what she sees is almost only challenges.”

Ifs Young Challenges Hollywood Landscape Young Women Badass

Author:Lena Dunham

“The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.”

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Author:Marlon Brando

“I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd bought a couple of scripts so I could see how the formatting works. I just needed to know how a Hollywood screenplay looked on the page, which was something I was totally unfamiliar with.”

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Author:Diablo Cody

“One nice thing about being a woman in Hollywood is that the women tend to be very close-knit. All of us writers and directors know each other and cling to each other for safety and support, and it's really a completely different vibe than the men experience out here, where they're all trying to murder each other.”

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Author:Diablo Cody

“That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his praise comes to him in the form of a salary check. In Hollywood the average writer is not young, not honest, not brave, and a bit overdressed. But he is darn good company, which book writers as a rule are not. He is better than what he writes. Most book writers are not as good.”

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Author:Raymond Chandler

“This country's crazy in terms of fame and what people think it means. They expect a writer to be something between a Hollywood starlet and the village idiot.”

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Author:Kent Haruf

“Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply.”

People Thinking Wells Young Asks Married Hollywood Ask Me Memorable Bogart

Author:Lauren Bacall

“My son tells me, 'Do you realize you are the last one? The last person who was an eyewitness to the golden age?' Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply. You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks. I could show you some, but I'd have to climb ladders, and I can't climb”

“I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's considerable rewards, I was hungry for most of those twenty years.”

Years Hollywood Intelligent Rewards Sexy Hungry

Author:Gene Tierney

“I can do everything skinny girls can do, trust me. I honestly think Hollywood is getting real. They're saying, 'Hey this is what a lot of America looks like,' a lot of America doesn't wear a size 2. I think the studios and the media are starting to realize that overweight people want something they can relate to, so let's give it to them.”

“You do not need to look or be anorexic to be successful in Hollywood. The range of what's acceptable is a lot larger than what people believe.”

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Author:Zooey Deschanel

“The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.”

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Author:Tom Clancy

“There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.”

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Author:Rudyard Kipling

“Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!”

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“I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I was. I do wish I had known that at the time because beauty is power. I didn't realise how lucky I was to be young, beautiful and in Hollywood. It didn't hit me. Every day I woke up, went to the film studio and just got on with it.”

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Author:Joan Collins

“I've never been turned down for a role because I'm gay. I'm a character actor, and that's probably why. I don't find Hollywood, in my own experience, to be homophobic. ... But I do think the straight folks will continue to play the straight roles.”

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Author:Jane Lynch

“I never watched Friends, maybe because it was written by people straight out of college....The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.”

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Author:Larry Gelbart

“In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.”

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Author:Annette Funicello

“I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.”

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Author:Gene Tierney

“During my first few weeks in Hollywood, I was told that Jack Warner, the head of the studio, did not believe that a small-breasted woman could become a star.”

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Author:Jane Fonda

“When Shana Alexander interviewed me for Life magazine in 1952, she gave up after 4,000. At one time or another, I've worked for every studio in Hollywood, for almost every director with most of the actors and actresses.”

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Author:David Sharp

“I lived in Hollywood and, ironically, I didn't know you could just go out and get an agent and go on auditions and try and become an actor, I thought it was like a Masonic thing, like a blood line you had to belong to – until I was 13. Then I realised what you had to do. It is the one thing I know I want to do for the rest of my life.”

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Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called 'a little crazy'. And now I guess I'm still that way.”

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Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“The last thing I want to turn into is a fat Hollywood jerk. I was brought up without much money and I was happy. I don’t think that I will strive for money or success and end up greedy or big-headed. That only leads to unhappiness. I can still be down-to-earth and do this job as long as I enjoy it.”

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Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“I've always been proud of my body, my Jewish nose and all of that. Hollywood's Hollywood, but that's not going to change.”

Body Proud Hollywood Noses

Author:Lea Michele

“Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons.”

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Author:Gerard Butler

“Hollywood likes to label everyone so you're easier to identify.”

Easier Hollywood Likes Labels

Author:Katherine Heigl

“You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything”

Want Hollywood Idiot

Author:Bradley Whitford

“In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly”

Ifs World Drink Hollywood Around The World

Author:Catherine Zeta-Jones

“Taking a year off and going to school was the best thing I could have done after 'The Princess Diaries.' It taught me that I don't need Hollywood or a job to make me happy.”

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Author:Anne Hathaway

“Ronald Reagan just signed the new tax law. But I think he was in Hollywood too long. He signed it, 'Best wishes, Ronald Reagan.'”

Thinking Long Law Wish Taxes Hollywood Best Wishes

Author:Johnny Carson

“Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.”

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Author:John Ratzenberger

“So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.”

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Author:Eriq La Salle

“If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.”

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Author:Naomi Watts

“I think I have always tried to do the smaller films. I like to jump around and there is something really nice for acting in a smaller film... But I think now, Hollywood's movies certainly involve a younger generation for the most part and so... I love going back and forth.”

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Author:Sigourney Weaver

“Hollywood is not good when it comes to age”

Age Hollywood

Author:Kyle MacLachlan

“I don't want to be the Hollywood girl... I'm Southern and old-fashioned.”

Want Girl Hollywood Southern Old Fashioned

Author:Jaime Pressly

“I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.”

Thinking Would Be Lord Taken Hollywood Dear Scary Supposed To Be Frightening Dear Lord

Author:Brittany Murphy

“The last couple of years were hell. Like, I can't even tell you, it was so hard. I didn't know how to handle it. But I think I'm in a much better place now, because I stepped away for a second and took a breath. Hollywood is a funny place. It offers so much, but it can also take a lot away from you.”

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Author:Cameron Diaz

“It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.”

Ifs Thinking Want Running Careers Path Perception Hollywood Suicide What You Want Downfall

Author:Charlie Hunnam

“I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.”

Ifs Years Hollywood Damn Shy Shyness

Author:Lucille Ball

“I thought it was a cool parallel. Being replaced by the young thing. I know that definitely happens in Hollywood. It's harder to find good roles, and suddenly there's new girls. I'm at that age I've been warned my whole life about.”

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Author:Winona Ryder

“If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible.”

Ifs Thinking Hollywood Depressing Really Depressing

Author:Ben Affleck

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