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“I'm not a film snob at all. I much prefer a really good Hollywood blockbuster than a thought-provoking art house movie because entertainment is sort of where it's at.”

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Author:Ricky Gervais

“Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn.”

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Author:Ilana Mercer

“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.”

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Author:Jim Gaffigan

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

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Author:J. Hoberman

“There is no blacklist. In the first place, in the entertainment business, money talks, bullshit walks. So Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins won't be blacklisted because they are bankable stars. In the second place, if you are a woman, the only things you're going to be blacklisted for in Hollywood are body fat and aging.”

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Author:Janeane Garofalo

“If you asked central casting in Hollywood for somebody to play the role of President, they'd send you John Connally.”

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Author:Phil Crane

“Hollywood is a great place if you're an orange.”

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Author:Fred Allen

“Mr. Cooper said to me that he had an idea for a film in mind. The only thing he'd tell me was that I was going to have the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood. Naturally, I thought of Clark Gable.”

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Author:Fay Wray

“If women ran Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter would have a "Men in Entertainment" issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something.”

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Author:Elizabeth Meriwether

“Paramount Pictures is a perfect partner for Electric Entertainment, with the most stable group of executives in Hollywood and unparalleled global promotion and distribution reach.”

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Author:Dean Devlin

“Meeting people is difficult, period. LA is a difficult place to meet people anyway, and Hollywood is such a small community. But I don't make it a rule just to date other actors and people in the entertainment industry. It could work out with me and a dentist. It could work out with me and a lawyer.”

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Author:Eva Longoria

“Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.”

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Author:Erica Jong

“Entertainment was transportation. You were supposed to take somebody out of their seat and bring them back in. You’re not supposed to impose your values or your supposed knowledge to manipulate or control people. That was not your job. You were not supposed to use the bully pulpit of Hollywood to pound people with ideas. You’re there to entertain.”

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Author:George Hamilton

“I am very, very uneasy with churches that have basically said, "Well, since that's what people want and that's what sells, then were going to do our worship services like Hollywood productions. We're going to have a lot of bells and whistles. We're going to have high entertainment value, and it is going to have a lot of gloss and glitter."”

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Author:Parker J. Palmer

“The blacklist against people in the entertainment industry that show up for [Donald] Trump is worse than that blacklist you heard of in Hollywood back in the forties and fifties.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me as a kid. I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win.”

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Author:Billy Eichner

“Dealing with Hollywood and commercial entertainment, you always have to worry that the political message is going to be skewed or obscured.”

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Author:Cleve Jones

“On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking.”

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Author:Kid Rock

“The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.”

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Book:Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words

Source: Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words

“An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.”

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Author:Fred Allen

“In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness you send out for it.”

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Book:Valentines & vitriol

Source: Valentines & vitriol

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

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Author:Tom Selleck

“If you want to be in the automotive business, you go to Detroit, and you figure it out. If you want to be in entertainment, go to where it's at. Go to Hollywood, go to New York.”

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Author:Nick Cannon