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“A lot of people who are actors and artists who work in Hollywood come from a background of abuse, and you can make abused people very fearful and they'll do what they're told. Hollywood definitely has a point of view that it sells.”

People Artist Actors Views Hollywood Abuse Sells Point Of View Backgrounds Fearful

Author:Roseanne Barr

“I think I came along at an opportune time. I don't know if that would happen anymore, because the whole way of doing business in Hollywood has changed.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Whole Happens Changed Hollywood

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“Hollywood is a bit of a publicity game where it's constantly trying to portray things and put up this image and I was not interested in that.”

Trying Games Bits Hollywood Not Interested Publicity

Author:Terry Crews

“I always joke around with my parents and say that if Hollywood doesn't work out I'll go to Broadway!”

Ifs Parent Jokes Hollywood Work Out Broadway

Author:Claudia Lee

“I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life.”

Want Made Real Home Night My Own Bed Hollywood Real Life Get Up Coming Home Movie Sets

Author:Sydney Pollack

“To the critics: You always complain that Hollywood never gives you new stuff, and then when you get it, you flip out. Lighten up.”

Giving Stuff Hollywood Critics Complaining Flip New Stuff

Author:Peter Farrelly

“Even as a child, when kids my age would watch cartoons, I preferred watching horror flicks. I had watched some Hollywood horror flicks and even films made by the Ramsay brothers by the time I was six! I have always been biased towards that genre.”

Children Made Kids Age Film Watches Brother Horror Six Hollywood Genre Cartoon Biased

Author:Emraan Hashmi

“In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.”

People Want Play Lying Economy Player Hollywood Tennis Cheating Cheat Tennis Player People Lie

Author:David Geffen

“Actions which are conscious expressions of the turn-on, tune-in, drop-out rhythm are religious.The wise person devotes his life exclusively to the religious search - for therein is found the only ecstasy, the only meaning. Anything else is a competitive quarrel over (or Hollywood-love sharing of) studio props.”

Persons Action Turns Found Religious Wise Expression Conscious Hollywood Studios Rhythm Tunes Ecstasy Quarrels Turn-on Props Wise Person

Author:Timothy Leary

“I would rather live in a country where children are protected and their predators prosecuted, and even (which in Hollywood is evidently not always the same thing) disapproved of.”

Children Country Hollywood Protected Predator

Author:Roman Polanski

“The people who've done well within the [Hollywood] system are the people whose instincts, whose desires [are in natural alignement with those of the producers] - who want to make the kind of movies that producers want to produce. People who don't succeed - people who've had long, bad times; like [Jean] Renoir, for example, who I think was the best director, ever - are the people who didn't want to make the kind of pictures that producers want to make. Producers didn't want to make a Renoir picture, even if it was a success.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Wells Kind Long Done Desire Natural Example Produce Succeed Directors Hollywood Instinct Producers Bad Times Renoir

Author:Orson Welles

“I think Hollywood is in love with sequels. If it's successful once, just jazz it up and shoot it out there again. I think it's unfortunate.”

Ifs Thinking Successful Hollywood Jazz Unfortunate Sequels

Author:Paul Newman

“In Hollywood, you grow up quick.”

Grows Growing Up Hollywood

Author:Lauren Conrad

“Hollywood is a place where some people lie on the beach and look up at the stars, whereas other people lie on the stars and look down at the beach.”

People Looks Lying Stars Hollywood Beach Look Up People Lie

Author:Noel Coward

“Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood.”

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Author:George Lucas

“It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's black.”

Doe Different Facts Seems Actors Black Virtue Hollywood

Author:Will Smith

“Hollywood can be an exclusive place. Who gets to be on TV, or who gets to make TV can be a small clique of an industry. There's so many talented, skilled people, all over the world, that might not have the connections or the opportunities to work in TV.”

People World Might Opportunity Tvs Industry Connections Hollywood Exclusive Clique

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“The technology companies don't understand creative things at all. Silicon Valley's view of the creative process in Hollywood is a bunch of guys in their young thirties sitting on a couch, drinking beer, and thinking up jokes.”

Thinking Young Guy Process Views Company Technology Creative Jokes Sitting Hollywood Drinking Bunch Beer Valleys Creative Process Couches Silicon Silicon Valley Drinking Beer

Author:Steve Jobs

“I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special effects.”

Eye Fiction Special Effects Television Hollywood Science Fiction Excuse Frustrated Candy Special Effects Eye Candy

Author:David Gerrold

“I'm sure there are people in Hollywood, whose main drive in film is to make money, who will feel that any use of the word hijacking or any reference to anything violent or remotely associated with the terrible tragedy that occurred will lose customers for them. And that will be the only criterion that will matter and so they'll force the minions that work for them to remove these things from their movies, or not make movies about that subject.”

People Feels Matter Use Film Force Loses Subjects Terrible Hollywood Tragedy Customers Violent Making Money Remove Criteria Minions Hijacking Terrible Tragedy

Author:Woody Allen

“I always felt that Hollywood has a way of making you feel outside.”

Way Feels Felt Hollywood

Author:Tim Burton

“When I was a Hollywood press agent, I learned how the Hollywood casting system worked. There was a roster of actors who were always perfect as doctors or lawyers or laborers, and the directors just picked the types they needed and stuffed them into film after film. I do the same [with my characters], book after book.”

Book Character Film Actors Perfect Type Needed Directors Doctors Hollywood Presses Lawyer Agents Casting Laborers Rosters

Author:Richard Condon

“When you think of Hollywood, you think of the land of opportunity. I always want to have the opportunity to do things conducive to my career.”

Thinking Want Opportunity Careers Land Hollywood Land Of Opportunity

Author:Raekwon

“Don't be discouraged if you think you're not a great writer because terrible writers are successful in Hollywood”

Ifs Thinking Successful Terrible Hollywood Discouraged Great Writers

Author:David Seltzer

“I was so tired of the parts I had to play. There seems little for me in Hollywood, because, rather than real Chinese, producers prefer Hungarians, Mexicans, American Indians for Chinese roles.”

Littles Real Play Seems Roles Hollywood Tired Producers Chinese American Indian Hungarians

Author:Anna May Wong

“The whole city gives you the impression of impermanence. You have the feeling that one day someone is going to yell, "Cut! Strike it!" and then the stagehands will scurry out and remove the mountains, the movie-star homes, the Hollywood Bowl--everything.”

Giving Whole Feelings Home Funny Stars Cities Cutting One Day Mountain Hollywood Strikes Impression Remove Los Angeles Bowls Movie Star Impermanence

Author:Allan Sherman

“If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.”

Ifs Stories Hollywood Scripts Come Up Studios Hollywood Studios

Author:Lance Armstrong

“The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy.”

Way Guy Next Successful Hollywood Being Successful Obnoxious

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an actor. I don't think there's a real person left in the place.”

Thinking Men Persons Real Actors Left He Man Hollywood Sells Variety Copies Pool Real Person

Author:Neil Gaiman

“There's nothing the matter with Hollywood that a good earthquake couldn't cure.”

Matter Hollywood Cures Earthquakes

Author:Moss Hart

“I'm an independent filmmaker with complete creative control of my films. I hire who I want. I have final cut. But at the same time, I go directly to Hollywood for financing and distribution. I find it's best for me to work within the Hollywood system.”

Want Film Creative Cutting Hollywood Independent Finals Filmmaker Distribution Financing

Book:Spike Lee: Interviews

Source: Spike Lee: Interviews

“Makeup can be pure fantasy--it can transform you into any kind of magical creature, whether that's a superhero or a retro Hollywood icon or just a more fun, fresher version of yourself. Looking like a stress-free, well-rested working mom? That's some kind of magic to me.”

Wells Kind Fun Fantasy Magic Mom Pure Creatures Hollywood Stress Versions Makeup Superhero Icons Retro Stress Free Working Mom Magical Creatures

Book:The Honest Life (Enhanced Edition): Living Naturally and True to You

Source: The Honest Life (Enhanced Edition): Living Naturally and True to You

“Hollywood isn't your cesspool, America. It's your mirror.”

America Hollywood Mirrors

Book:New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer

Source: New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer

“You know, the only place in America where the millionaires and billionaires are predominantly liberal is here in Hollywood.”

Knows America Hollywood Millionaire Billionaire

Author:Bill Maher

“Hollywood is a very male business, and it has in vast portions of it - the whole action movie part of it might as well be the United States Army in 1943 in that the ethics of it are, you know, boot camp and action movies and guns and explosions and all the rest of it, and that - so that means that about 50% of the business is not only pretty much closed off to women, but women don't even wanna be in it!”

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Author:Nora Ephron

“Hooray for Hollywood.”

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Author:Johnny Mercer

“Hollywood's two polar types are the cynically drunken writer aggressively nursing a ten-year-old reputation and the theatrically self-conscious hermit who strides the boulevard in sandals, home-made shorts and a prophetic beard, muttering against the Age of the Machines.”

Source: Exhumations: Stories, Articles, Verses

“Today, the only thing Hollywood swears by is space adventures because that's what goes over well. For my part, I trust my instinct and I make the films I believe in. If the public follows me, that's wonderful. If it doesn't follow, "c'est la vie.”

Ifs Believe Wells Today Film I Believe Space Wonderful Adventure Hollywood Instinct I Believe In Swear Follow Me

Book:Clint Eastwood: interviews

Source: Clint Eastwood: interviews

“Hollywood seems to succumb to fads. Well, action films do well. Give me violence. Give me a scene where there's a couple of car chases or shooting and stuff like that. They're forgetting the fact that there's a basic structure to a story that is essential to making it really broad and appealing.”

Giving Wells Facts Stories Seems Action Film Stuff Forget Violence Car Couple Scene Essentials Hollywood Give Me Structure Shooting Broads Fads Action Films

Author:Clint Eastwood

“So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again. Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.”

Lasts Faces Life Is Baby Hollywood Series Goodbye Now And Then Saying Goodbye My Baby Many Faces

Author:Billy Joel

“Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.”

Mind States Lines Talking New York Rivers Hollywood Folks Flight Beach Holiday Hops Neighborhood Get Away State Of Mind Miami Greyhounds New York State Miami Beach Hudson River

Author:Billy Joel

“It's lovely that the Hollywood stars are crossing over to Broadway.... There used to be such a dividing line in the country between Hollywood and the theatre and that's just melting away. It's just wonderful right now!”

Country Used Stars Lines Wonderful Right Now Hollywood Theatre Lovely Used To Be Broadway Melting Crossings Dividing Crossing Over Hollywood Stars Melting Away

Author:Julie Andrews

“I love the old Hollywood glam look: platinum blonde hair, the perfect red lip. It's very Marilyn Monroe and shows a pure feminine beauty.”

Looks Shows Perfect Hair Pure Red Hollywood Lips Feminine Blonde Red Lips Feminine Beauty Platinum Glam Blonde Hair Old Hollywood

Author:Christina Aguilera

“Zombies don't run. They don't dance. They don't say, "More brains." There is no Thriller Night. Those are stereotypes that are perpetrated by Hollywood, which I think is very irresponsible because it can get you killed.”

Thinking Running Night Brain Hollywood Stereotype Zombie Irresponsible Thrillers

Author:Max Brooks

“[Hollywood] hates America.”

America Hate Hollywood

Author:James Carville

“Coming from Ireland, its quite hard to do a startup because youre culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing. In the Bay Area, its much easier. Its the equivalent of an actor or actress moving to Hollywood.”

Hard Moving Actors Easier Areas Hollywood Actresses Ireland Far Away Bay Area

Author:John Collison

“The world has certain rules - Hollywood has certain rules - but it doesn't mean you have to play by them, and I don't, or I'd be a miserable person.”

World Mean Persons Play Certain Hollywood Miserable Miserable Person

Author:Sherilyn Fenn

“When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.”

Years Young Actors Television Hollywood Rings Agents Evening Young Actors

Author:Michael Caine

“I'm sure I can't relate to what females go through in Hollywood, but I do know what it feels like to eat emotionally. To be sad and make yourself happy with food, and then be almost immediately sad again, and then ashamed. Then, you try to hide those feelings with more food.”

Knows Feels Trying I Can Feelings Female Hollywood Relate Ashamed Make Yourself Happy

Author:Chris Pratt

“Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We've all experienced that, in one way or another.”

Way Actors Directors Hollywood One Way Contempt

Author:Vin Diesel

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