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“I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.”

Littles Hollywood Towns Backgrounds Ireland Broadway Little Towns Derry

Author:Damian McGinty

“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

“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 do not like the Broadway theatre because it does not know how to say hello. The tone of voice is false, the mannerisms are false, the sex is false, ideal, the Hollywood world of perfection, the clean image, the well pressed clothes, the well scrubbed anus, odorless, inhuman, of the Hollywood actor, the Broadway star. And the terrible false dirt of Broadway, the lower depths in which the dirt is imitated, inaccurate.”

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Author:Julian Beck

“There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.”

States Left Doubt Fool Elements Hollywood Organization Police No Doubt Broadway Police State

Book:Elia Kazan: Interviews

Source: Elia Kazan: Interviews

“I went to Hollywood to test for Martha Ivers and I thought I was going to play the part that Van Heflin played.But they wanted me to play the part of Barbara Stanwyck's husband, so I played that. Then when I finished the movie, I went back to Broadway and did another flop.”

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Author:Kirk Douglas

“Acting on the stage is a luxury for me. I lose money. I make movies for financial reasons and this allows me the luxury of acting on Broadway. Hollywood, unfortunately, exploits actors for their own reasons, which are usually financial. So we might as well exploit Hollywood as much as it exploits us.”

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Author:George C. Scott

“I was a Hollywood musical fan as a kid, and I know how rare it is for someone who originates the Broadway role to get to then do it on screen.”

Knows Kids Roles Know How Fans Hollywood Musical Screens Broadway

Author:John Lloyd Young

“Broadway producers are happy to have a big Hollywood name they can post on the marquee, but most of them assume that television and film stars really can't handle stage work. Too often, they're right.”

Bigs Film Names Stars Stage Television Hollywood Assuming Handle Producers Posts Broadway Film Stars Marquee

Book:My First Five Husbands..And the Ones Who Got Away

Source: My First Five Husbands..And the Ones Who Got Away

“I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.”

Knows Trying Bigs Hollywood Broadway Hollywood Movies

Author:James Earl Jones

“'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck.”

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Author:James Wolcott

“I believe the poor fierce-eyed child had figured out that with a mere fifty dollars in her purse she might somehow reach Broadway or Hollywood - or the foul kitchen of a diner (Help Wanted) in a dismal ex-prairie state, with the wind blowing, and the stars blinking, and the cars, and the bars, and the barmen, and everything soiled, torn, dead.”

Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

“Hollywood has its Oscars. Television has its Emmys. Broadway has its Tonys. And advertising has its Clios. And its Andys, Addys, Effies and Obies. And 117 other assorted awards. And those are just the big ones.”

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Author:Joanne Lipman

“Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can be a Broadway star here one night, and something happens, and out--nobody knows you on the street. They forget you ever lived. It happens in Hollywood, too.”

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Author:Buster Keaton