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“Hollywood parties not only confuse me, but they often disillusion me. The disillusion comes when I meet a movie star I’ve been admiring since childhood. I always thought that movie stars were exciting and talented people full of special personality. Meeting one of them at a party I discover usually that he (or she) is colorless and even frightened. I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.”

People Littles Turns Stars Hours Party Childhood Special Listening Personality Hollywood Exciting Meetings Silent Dull Frightened Idols Movie Star Admiring Disillusion Colorless

Book:My Story

Source: My Story

“When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.”

Crazy Hollywood Smell Driving Halls Starving Banquets Filet Mignon

Book:My Story

Source: My Story

“Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.”

Made War Hollywood Vietnam Vietnam War

Author:Jerry Stiller

“The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there is that Hollywood is an Oriental city. As long as you do that, you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else, you'll perish.”

Ifs Trying Long Might Remember Cities One Thing Hollywood

Author:Olivia de Havilland

“There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare animal in a zoo.”

Seems Animal Known Normal Hollywood Impression Zoos

Author:Irene Dunne

“I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals.”

Hollywood Younger Days

Author:Julie Harris

“I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite”

Thinking Doe Hollywood Opposites Towns Southern Small Town Cliche Small Town Life

Author:Josh Lucas

“My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that”

World Parent Memories This World Hollywood Knees Grants Great Memories

Author:Tony Goldwyn

“I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit”

Names Grew Grew Up Hollywood Detroit

Author:Tony Goldwyn

“I like being in movies that have a great story. I'm not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It's a job, you know. When you wake up at six in the morning every day for a week, it feels like hard work.”

Knows Feels Hard Stories Jobs Stars Morning Week Hard Work Six Hollywood Wake Up Hollywood Stars

Author:Kristen Stewart

“I just feel lucky to have grown up where I did because I think it gave me a nice base. Hollywood can really mess with your sense of self and I feel like coming from the South keeps me pretty grounded.”

Thinking Feels Self Nice Lucky Hollywood South Mess Grounded Sense Of Self

Author:Amber Benson

“My family has always supported me completely and kept me grounded. I never got lost in child Hollywood actor weirdness.”

Children Actors Lost My Family Hollywood Grounded Weirdness

Author:Sara Paxton

“Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know... It's just good entertainment.”

Knows Hollywood Entertainment Genre

Author:Tom Selleck

“I've learned by hanging out in Hollywood, where I disagree politically with most people, that most people's hearts are in the right place, and the only thing we have to argue about is the way to solve the problems”

People Way Heart Problem Hollywood Solve Arguing I've Learned Hanging Out Disagree Right Place

Author:Tom Selleck

“In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for.”

Men Years Character Kids Faces Actors Doors Hundred Hollywood Character Actors

Author:Anthony Michael Hall

“It's not what you are in Hollywood - it's what people think you are.”

People Thinking Hollywood

Author:Robert Stack

“I don't have this crazy dream about going to Hollywood, because I really love to watch movies and do movies that are complicated, and I want more strange things and complicated things.”

Want Dream Watches Crazy Strange Hollywood Complicated Strange Things Watch Movie Complicated Things

Author:Noomi Rapace

“Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.”

Years Made Past Hollywood Lawyer Agents

Book:Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews

Source: Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews

“There's a certain thought process about actors that they are in Hollywood and they sit around pools and get suntans and just get offered jobs.”

Jobs Certain Actors Process Hollywood Pool Thought Process

Author:Chris Klein

“The actors I was most impressed with and who were influencing my taste were all movie actors, so I always wanted to do movies but I didnt want to go to Hollywood and become a waiter in the meantime. The chances are really slim that an actor will be discovered in Hollywood. ... Ive never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.”

Want Wanted Jobs Actors Chance Influence Taste Hollywood Compromise Impressed Chances Are Waiter Slim Movie Actors

Author:Gary Sinise

“You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.”

Thinking School Actors Comedy Tvs High School Hollywood Dramatic Senior Juniors Freshman

Author:Owen Wilson

“In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.”

Knows Play Age Girl Next Mom Hollywood Golden Birthday 60th Birthday Golden Girls

Author:Gabrielle Union

“In Hollywood, there is a lot of pressure to do certain things and getting into drugs, alcohol, or partying a lot is a major one. I stay out of that, because it is a waste of my time. I always remember where I came from and to never change who I am - I stick to my morals, and I do not let anyone pressure me into doing things that I do not want to.”

Want Remember Certain Party Moral Drug Waste Majors Hollywood Pressure Sticks Alcohol Who I Am My Time Never Change Wasting My Time

Author:Ashley Benson

“Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality”

Reality Devil Hollywood Holier Than Thou

Author:Grace Kelly

“Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this seasons episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldnt possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood.”

Real Lasts Actors Scene Summer Shots Hollywood Seasons Productions France Episodes Units Crew Castles Landmarks Last Summer

Author:Vic Morrow

“But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.”

Watches Hollywood Hollywood Movies Old Hollywood

Author:Olivier Martinez

“That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else-I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.”

Kissing Hollywood Hug Familiarity Phony

Author:Jennifer Tilly

“If just a few people make decisions about what this world looks like, what this country looks like, then you have people sitting in offices at major media outlets and Hollywood who think they can deal with a small group of people, to get them to jump through the hoops they want you to.”

People Ifs Thinking World Want Looks Country Decision Deals Groups Media This World Office Majors Sitting Hollywood Outlets Smart People Small Groups

Author:Rick Santorum

“Elijah Wood from Lord Of The Rings can't get married with a girl named Holly beacause it would make Holly Wood get it HOLLYWOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Girl Lord Married Hollywood Woods Rings Elijah Hollies

Author:Joel Madden

“I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.”

Hollywood Executives Handshake

Author:Marlee Matlin

“I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.”

Trying Believe Long Night I Believe Interest Careers Horror Models Hollywood One Night Parades One Night Stand

Author:Natasha Henstridge

“After Hollywood, you know if people are interested in you or in the fact that you've been in a movie. You know who your real friends are.”

People Ifs Knows Real Facts Hollywood Real Friends Who Your Real Friends Are

Author:Emily Browning

“I am proud to tell Hollywood that I am a Christian. For the first time I am now free to be myself.”

Firsts Christian Proud First Time Hollywood

Author:Gary Busey

“What Hollywood truly wants is for people to be themselves. I think what it's designed for is to kind of turn people into something and just make them saleable. But what it really stands for, what it really loves, are people who are unafraid to be themselves, and as you can see, these are people who are excelling in their careers.”

People Thinking Want Kind Turns Careers Hollywood Unafraid

Author:Troian Bellisario

“I'm a curiosity in Hollywood. I'm a big freak, because I'm myself!”

Bigs Hollywood Curiosity Freak

Author:Clara Bow

“They yell at me to be dignified. But what are the dignified people like? The people who are held up as examples of me? They are snobs. Frightful snobs I'm a curiosity in Hollywood. I'm a big freak, because I'm myself!”

People Bigs Example Hollywood Curiosity Freak Snob

Author:Clara Bow

“Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles.”

Thinking Want Stars Roles Hollywood Theater Corporate Movie Star Geek

Author:William Petersen

“I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's why I don't live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.”

Kind Jobs Guy Loses Cities Hollywood Woods Los Angeles

Author:Aidan Quinn

“My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.”

Pay Ambition Hollywood

Author:Adrian Grenier

“This is a terrible place to spend your life in. Nobody in Hollywood is normal. Absolutely nobody. And they have such a vicious attitude toward one another. They say much worse things about each other than outsiders say about them, and nobody has any real friends.”

Real Attitude Terrible Normal Hollywood Outsiders Real Friends Vicious

Author:Gary Cooper

“It’s literally true, as Shakespeare said--all the world’s a stage. It wasn’t that way when I first got into the movies in 1924, but it is now. That’s why I find Hollywood newer and more exciting every day. Whatever you hear it’s still a place where a kid from Montana can jump on a horse, ride that-a-way, and keep right on going.”

World Way Firsts Said Stills Kids Stage Hollywood Exciting Horse Montana

Author:Gary Cooper

“Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.”

People Funny Half Dying Hollywood Other Half

Author:Lionel Barrymore

“In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.”

Reality Used Hollywood Used To Be Escaping

Author:Chris Kattan

“In Hollywood, what they last saw you in is what you are. It's hard to break away from that.”

Hard Lasts Break Saws Hollywood

Author:Chris Kattan

“I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood”

People Hollywood Bigger

Author:Kathleen Turner

“The question now is does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don't think he'll raise it out of the New York people, I don't think he's going to raise it out the Hollywood people, so where's the money going to come from for Barack Obama?”

People Thinking Doe Money New York Hollywood Raises Barack Raising Money

Author:Juan Williams

“Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.”

Kids Watches Hollywood Obligation

Author:Morgan Brittany

“My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very difficult to get work so when I was born they put me into dance classes and singing classes as soon as I could walk actually.”

Country Mother Found Difficult Born Walks Class Singing Hollywood Moved Western Singers Dance Class

Author:Morgan Brittany

“I can meet any producer in Hollywood and look them in the eye, knowing I didn't sleep with them, or do drugs with them.”

Looks I Can Eye Sleep Knowing Drug Hollywood Producers

Author:Morgan Brittany

“Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.”

People Want Built Hollywood Pedestal

Author:Morgan Brittany

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