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“Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.”

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Author:Uwe Boll

“I think it's important to control your opportunities, because in the entertainment world, it's not up to you. I'm not sitting here under this naïve belief that someone in Hollywood is going, "Gaffigan! What kind of a show can I build around him?" So you have to find things that can showcase your point of view.”

Thinking World Kind Important Shows Opportunity Belief Views Sitting Hollywood Entertainment Point Of View Up To You Showcase

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“Sundance [festival] is all your Hollywood buds and buddies and rolling out and high-fiving and "Hell, yeah. Here comes the movie," and in Venice, it's very elegant, and respectful...It's decadence. It's such a fun way to formalize a movie that is for us a down-and-dirty, gritty movie. And to see it with the red carpet, and rolling up in a Maserati.”

Way Fun Hell Red Hollywood Down And Yeah Dirty Rolling Elegant Festivals Carpet Buddy Respectful Bud Venice Red Carpet Decadence Sundance Rolling Up Hell Yeah Maserati

Author:David Gordon Green

“As much as it's nice to step into that massive world of Hollywood and be a big, famous actor, I prefer the career of actors that have really chosen smartly and done really amazing performances. Maybe they're not as known, but their careers are a bit more interesting.”

World Done Bigs Actors Bits Interesting Known Steps Careers Nice Hollywood Performances Chosen Massive Really Amazing Famous Actor

Author:Idris Elba

“I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music. I'm as Hollywood as it gets. Not internally but externally - that's my bloodline.”

Reason Grew Grew Up Hollywood Bloodline

Author:Robin Thicke

“I figured, when I make a movie, especially earlier in my career, one thing I was going to make sure was that the movie doesn't cost a lot and that it has potential to make a lot of money. That's how you get respect in Hollywood.”

Careers One Thing Cost Hollywood Lots Of Money

Author:Ice Cube

“We're bombarded with liberal propaganda 24/7, from the early morning shows, Hollywood movies, documentaries and sitcoms, all major newspapers, fashion magazines, the sports pages, public schools, college professors and administrators, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Unless liberals specifically seek out Ann Coulter books and columns, which I highly recommend, or tune into Fox News or conservative talk radio, they have no idea what conservatives are thinking.”

“The problems you have as a novelist tend to have to do with making a living and trying to find ways to supplement the income you get from writing novels. For a lot of writers, that involves teaching. In my case, so far, I've been able to get by working in Hollywood with this TV stuff I've been doing. And it's very important, because my wife is a writer, too, and we don't have health insurance through any employer.”

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Author:Michael Chabon

“Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!”

Ideas Hollywood Dumb Teenager Really Dumb

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to mean a movie that was financed outside corporate Hollywood, but a lot of what gets called independent these days is totally produced within that system. And there's nothing wrong with that.”

Thinking Mean Used Hollywood Independent Honestly Corporate These Days Gimmicks

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with great artists from all over the world.”

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Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.”

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Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“The Masonic aspect of Hollywood is so bizarre.”

Aspect Hollywood Bizarre Masonic

Author:Minnie Driver

“The Jews control Hollywood and use it to promote their own agenda.”

Use Hollywood Jew Agendas

Author:Marlon Brando

“Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainment--rich in fantasy and blithely amoral.”

Fun Fantasy Rich Hollywood Entertainment Energetic Quentin Tarantino

Author:J. Hoberman

“Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation.”

Gone Cutting Hollywood Edges Consumption Conservation Cutting Edge Conspicuous Consumption

Author:Arianna Huffington

“When I first came out to L.A., Hollywoods idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen or heard of an Afro-Latina before.”

Firsts Ideas Heard Hollywood Mexican Latina Afros

Author:Lauren Velez

“One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.”

Way Earth Next Talking One Day Hollywood Knocking Down To Earth

Author:Patrick Fugit

“Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.”

Men Film Strong Written Stupid Hollywood Strong Women

Author:Ryan Gosling

“I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.”

Thinking Men Kind Actors Hollywood Typical Looking Good

Author:Ryan Gosling

“I hope Hong Kong and Asia wants to hire American Asian actresses as much as Hollywood has been hiring Chinese actors from Asia.”

Want Has Beens Actors Hollywood Actresses Chinese Asia Asian Hiring Hong Kong

Author:Ming-Na Wen

“I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor.”

Want Made Kids Age Film Actors Boys Growing Up Growing Hollywood Inspired Golden Obsessed Favourite Detectives Gangsters Golden Age Tracy

Author:Ryan Gosling

“Steve Howey is probably the funniest man in Hollywood. For real. He is just that person that can make you laugh at all times.”

Men Persons Real Laughing Hollywood All Time Make You Laugh

Author:Shanola Hampton

“Most Hollywood men are too vain and shallow for me.”

Men Hollywood Vain Shallow

Author:Alley Mills

“Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.”

Roles Hollywood Hopefully Doing Good Bollywood

Author:Madhur Mittal

“I live in Minnesota. Lots of people assume that if you want to be an actor, you have to live in Hollywood, but not me.”

People Ifs Want Actors Hollywood Assuming Minnesota

Author:Chris Massoglia

“I don't look like Catherine Zeta-Jones, so I don't think Hollywood would be that interested in me, to be honest. I just want nice work.”

Thinking Want Looks Would Be Nice Honest Hollywood Being Honest Zeta Nice Work

Author:Anne-Marie Duff

“Id be lying if I said Hollywood wasnt still an ambition; its everyones, isnt it? Youre getting paid very well, youre working with great actors and great directors - who wouldnt want to be a part of that? But its not going to break my heart if it doesnt happen. This business is about doing good work rather than how famous it makes you.”

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Author:Max Beesley

“Of All the Gin Joints is one part cinematic history, one part old Hollywood weirdness, and one part handy basic bar guide, with a dash of romance and more than a few wry twists. Bailey and Hemingway prove themselves very entertaining cultural mixologists.”

Romance Prove Hollywood Guides Bars Entertaining Twists Joints Weirdness Handy Gin Cinematic Wry Old Hollywood

Author:Sam Lipsyte

“Hollywood can buy a lot of pieces of the puzzle, but the great thing is they can never buy word of mouth.”

Pieces Mouths Hollywood Great Things Puzzles Word Of Mouth

Author:Steve Tisch

“It's a mining town in lotus land.”

Land Hollywood Towns Mining Lotuses

Book:The Love of the Last Tycoon: The Authorized Text

Source: The Love of the Last Tycoon: The Authorized Text

“Show business can be an addiction. ... An audience would laugh at me one night, and I would chase that high for another three months.”

Shows Night Three Audience Laughing Months Hollywood Addiction Show Business One Night Three Months

Author:Joan Rivers

“I was absorbing a sorry truth of show business - rejection is the norm and acceptance the oddity. I was learning to cut the tops off my highs and stay with the lows where the rejections and letdowns would be shallow.”

Shows Would Be Cutting Acceptance Lows Hollywood Sorry Rejection Shallow Norm Show Business Absorbing Oddities Letdowns

Author:Joan Rivers

“Hollywood is a mirage factory.”

Hollywood Factories Mirages

Author:Anais Nin

“Sure, you make money writing on the coast ... but that money is like so much compressed snow. It goes so fast it melts in your hand.”

Writing Hands Hollywood Snow Making Money Coast

Book:The Sayings of Dorothy Parker

Source: The Sayings of Dorothy Parker

“Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.”

World Dies Hollywood Encouragement Places In The World

Author:Dorothy Parker

“You cannot live in Los Angeles for any period of time without eventually trying to write a screenplay. It's like a flu bug that you catch ... Even the plumber has a screenplay in his truck.”

Writing Trying Periods Hollywood Los Angeles Bugs Truck Flu Screenplays Plumber

Book:It's Always Something

Source: It's Always Something

“Today Washington is our Hollywood, the Senate our Warner Bros., the White House our Beverly Hills. People who never read a line of a movie magazine deal with the lives of leaders as if they were Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.”

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Book:At Large

Source: At Large

“Every star knows you step on some toes to get where you're going - and some more after you get there. Nobody means to hurt anybody else, it just happens. You always keep saying in the back of your mind that one day you will be able to right all the wrongs. That someday almost never comes.”

Knows Mind Mean Happens Able Stars Hurt Steps One Day Hollywood Someday Toes

Author:Jayne Mansfield

“Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce ... some people have trouble staying married and some people have trouble staying single.”

People Trouble Married Hollywood Divorce Staying Marriage Love Marriage And Divorce Staying Single

Author:Jayne Mansfield

“Without homosexuals there'd be no Hollywood.”

Hollywood Sexuality Homosexual

Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look.”

People Looks Hard Land Achieve Hard Work Hollywood Fruit Expensive

Book:Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice

Source: Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice

“Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.”

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Author:Bette Davis

“Hollywood - an emotional Detroit.”

Emotional Hollywood Detroit

Author:Lillian Gish

“Hollywood was like a mouse being followed by a cat called television.”

Television Cat Hollywood Mice

Author:Mae West

“The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood ... Life elsewhere was real and slippery and struggled in the arms like a big fish dying in air.”

Real Bigs Existence Cutting Air Dying Arms Hollywood Fishes Bites Elsewhere Slippery Big Fish Hollywood Life

Author:Mae West

“no one ever really leaves Hollywood. No one really leaves unless they are called away by God. Even then, the impulse would be to come back again and make a movie about the experience.”

Would Be Hollywood Impulse Back Again

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“Hollywood always had a streak of the totalitarian in just about everything it did. The old moguls were essentially hard-fisted authoritarians who had created a system of linked dictatorships to control the creative people. We were supposed to be the children; mad, tempestuous, brilliant, talented, not terribly smart children.”

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Book:You Can Get There From here

Source: You Can Get There From here

“Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too. Now go ahead and ask me if I'm still Polish. You people keep asking me this question. You want Polish artists to make it in the world, but when they do, you accuse them of treason.”

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Author:Roman Polanski

“In leaving Hollywood and coming to New York, I feel I can be more myself. After all, if I can't be myself, what's the good of being anything at all?”

Ifs Feels I Can Self New York Hollywood Leaving

Author:Marilyn Monroe

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