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“It was extremely useful to grow up in front of the camera. It gives the camera no significance. I think it helped me have perspective on things. The attraction that Hollywood can have, I feel like I'm over that. Instead I just concentrate on acting.”

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Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“I don't give Hollywood the power to limit me. Only God can limit me.”

Giving Limits Hollywood

Author:Ving Rhames

“Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp.”

Giving Book Daughter Hollywood Our Daughter Your Daughter Pimp

Author:Tom Clancy

“I would like to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for giving me this wonderful opportunity to serve as Miss Golden Globe 2012.”

Giving Opportunity Wonderful Missing Hollywood Presses Golden Association Globes

Author:Rainey Qualley

“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

“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.”

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Author:Allan Sherman

“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.”

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Author:Clint Eastwood

“I've been a writer for a long time but I kind of had to get rid of a lot of the things I learned in Hollywood but I kept some of them too. And things I kept were: don't be precious, kill your darlings is always good, give it dynamics - you don't want it to be all joyful, all sad.”

Want Giving Kind Long Long Time Hollywood Joyful Darling Dynamics

Author:Maya Forbes

“[Steven Spielberg's films] are comforting, they always give you answers and I don't think they're very clever answers. The success of most Hollywood films these days is down to fact that they're comforting. They tie things up in nice little bows and give you answers, even if the answers are stupid, you go home and you don't have to think about it. The great filmmakers make you go home and think about it.”

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Author:Terry Gilliam

“Do you know anything at all that nobody else knows or, for that matter, gives a damn about? If you do, then sit tight, because one of these days you're going to Hollywood as a technical supervisor on a million dollar movie.”

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Author:S. J. Perelman

“Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.”

Giving Acting Hollywood Awards Academy Academy Awards

Author:Shirley Knight

“One of the things that's troubling is that people see Natalie Portman or some other Hollywood starlet who boasts of, hey look, you know, we're having children. We're not married, but we are having these children and they're doing just fine. And I think it gives a distorted image that, yes, not everybody hires nannies and caretakers and nurses.”

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Author:Anna Holmes

“Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.”

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“If you're just an actor you're reactive. You're saying, "Well, I hope Hollywood gives me a role, or gives me a chance at a role," whereas if you can generate your own content, then you can go where you want to go.”

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Author:Matt Damon

“I'm not a big Hollywood star. I'm an actor. I'm called a star. That's not what I am. First of all I'm a human being; my profession is acting. People give you titles. They say you're an up and coming star, then they say you're a star, then they say you're a washed-up star. So I don't get caught up in what I'm called. My job, my profession, is acting.”

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Author:Denzel Washington

“Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.”

Thinking Giving Should Years Mind Work Materials Hollywood Meetings Oscars

Author:William Goldman

“I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.”

Thinking Giving Children Ideas Character Evil Dark Tradition Hollywood Dishonorable Evil Characters

Author:Tilda Swinton

“I don't take Hollywood too seriously. I have kids that don't give a damn about what I'm shooting, they just want dinner. So that keeps me grounded.”

Want Giving Kids Hollywood Dinner Shooting Damn Grounded Don't Give A Damn

Author:Reagan Gomez-Preston

“It is time to stop talking so much about what kind of leaders we want, to give less lip service to what Washington or Wall Street or Hollywood should do, and to act a lot more like citizens who actually deserve freedom.”

Want Giving Should Kind Talking Leader Streets Wall Citizens Deserve Hollywood Lips Lip Service

Author:Oliver DeMille

“I just saw Titanic, which is a $200 million film about a real-life disaster at sea, but according to Hollywood Logic, none of the actual passengers was interesting enough, so the writer-director had to invent a Romeo and Juliet-style fictional couple to heat up the catastrophe. This seems a tiny bit like giving Anne Frank a wacky best friend, to perk up that attic.”

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Author:Paul Rudnick

“It takes a pretty strong person, a rather unusual young person, to stand up to ridicule and refuse to give in to temptation. There are so many things today in modern music, on television, and in the movies that portray a life that is nowhere near the life the Lord would have us live. Consequently, we cannot afford to turn to the radio, television, or Hollywood to take our cues about what is right and what is wrong. It is scary to realize that the more we are exposed to Hollywood's version of life, the more we gradually begin to accept it.”

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Author:Robert L. Millet

“I don't remember, at 19, someone giving me a golden key and saying, 'Welcome to Hollywood; which job would you like?'”

Giving Jobs Remember Keys Hollywood Golden Welcome

Author:Jessica Capshaw

“What I try to do is reinvigorate strategies and clichés I find in Hollywood movies. At a certain point I had these huge folders, each one classified according to subject matter or genre: people with guns, people kissing, Indians and cowboys falling off horses, getting shot, getting shot with arrows - almost every plot device. Then I cropped the cheap, recycled imagery to give exhausted images new meaning, or at least something other than their original meaning. I'm basically reassembling atoms to give them a meaning that's more au courant.”

“I live in Los Angeles. It's a very liberal city, but it's so hypocritical in what it's liberal about. You can be driving down Hollywood Boulevard, see a guy in lipstick and high heels wearing a fur coat masturbating into a mailbox. People giving him a hard time as they drive by: Hey, is that real fur? Of course not! That's sick!”

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Author:Dana Gould

“I think about never losing my voice, never giving in, never selling out, always keeping black, always sticking to the street. Staying neighborhood and not Hollywood.”

Thinking Giving Black Voice Streets Losing Hollywood Selling Staying Neighborhood Giving In Selling Out

Book:Black Is the New White

Source: Black Is the New White

“Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart. I've had these blokes in Hollywood hug me trying to make out I'm their friend and as soon as I turn their back they take out a big bunch of knives and stab me in the back. I feel sorry for these people because they are so shallow.”

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Author:Steve Irwin

“I think for Wes [Anderson] and me, the most important thing was James L. Brooks producing our first movie and giving us a chance to come to Hollywood, because without him, we might never have gotten the chance.”

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Author:Owen Wilson

“When I hit Hollywood, it was full-blown. I was a party boy. It amazes me that I made it ... to be able to have led this amazing career when I was out every night. Every once in a while I'll see old reruns of myself and I see I'm giving it my comedy best, but with dead eyes - no sparkle. I was in the middle of all that abuse. But now I'm a recovering alcoholic with many years of sobriety.”

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Author:Leslie Jordan

“All the Hollywood bullshit and accolades and money really doesn't matter. It just gives you a slightly nicer house and slightly nicer food and slightly shinier hair.”

Giving Matter House Hair Hollywood Bullshit Accolades

Author:Emmy Rossum

“I could hire every producer in Hollywood - 2,000 producers, let's say - and they couldn't come up with all the soap operas, in season and out of season, that NFL programming gives television.”

Giving Television Hollywood Seasons Come Up Producers Nfl Programming Opera Soap Soap Operas

Author:Jerry Jones

“They're lacking culture in Hollywood. That gives me a big up, right? I know something about pop culture.”

Knows Giving Bigs Culture Hollywood Give Me Pops Lacking Pop Culture

Author:Russell Simmons

“According to Hollywood logic, none of the actual Titanic passengers was interesting enough, so the writer-director had to invent a Romeo and Juliet-style fictional couple to heat up the catastrophe. This seems a tiny bit like giving Anne Frank a wacky best friend, to perk up that attic.”

Giving Enough Seems Bits Interesting Style Couple Directors Logic Hollywood Tiny Heat Frank Catastrophe Passengers Juliet Perks Attics Wacky

Author:Paul Rudnick

“From a young age, [James Baldwin] was watching all those different films. He's watching John Wayne killing off the Indians. He came to the point that the Indians were him. You had to educate yourself because the movies were not educating you. The movies were giving you a reflection of you that was not the truth. That's the trick. The movie was also giving a reflection of what the country is. Basically, a country that wanted itself to be innocent. That's the ambivalence of Hollywood.”

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Author:Raoul Peck

“Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'”

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Author:Marilyn Monroe

“I don't give a damn about Hollywood.”

Giving Hollywood Damn Don't Give A Damn I Don't Give A Damn

Author:Emmanuelle Beart

“I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini wax. See what Hollywood does to you?”

Giving Doe Speak Hollywood Give Me Oxford Bikinis

Author:Kate Beckinsale

“I want to be able to work on a project that will give people around the world the chance to represent their own people, their own culture, their own stories, rather than just Hollywood - really, you know, dominated Hollywood. And that's a dream of mine.”

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Author:Steven Seagal

“I'm always being accused of being a Hollywood Republican, but I'm not! I have just as many Democratic ideas as Republican ones. If they could build three fewer bombs every month and give the money to foster care, that would be great.”

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Author:Bruce Willis

“Will you get off me!" "But I'm giving you CPR-" "I will die before kissing you, Hollywood." Z tried to sit up, his breathing heavy. "Don't even think about it.”

Thinking Giving Dies Kissing Hollywood Heavy Breathing Kissing You Cpr

Book:Lover at Last: Number 11 in series

Source: Lover at Last: Number 11 in series

“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.”

“I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.”

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Author:Cedric Hardwicke

“I can do everything skinny girls can do, trust me. I honestly think Hollywood is getting real. They're saying, 'Hey this is what a lot of America looks like,' a lot of America doesn't wear a size 2. I think the studios and the media are starting to realize that overweight people want something they can relate to, so let's give it to them.”

“Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they'll go to see them. It's still the same.”

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Author:Javier Bardem

“I think a lot of times it just looks like Hollywood actors in Halloween costumes, you know? And I think what we’re going to do with Fantastic Four is going to be very grounded and it made sense to me. When I read the script, I didn’t feel like I was reading this larger-than-life, incredible superhero tale. These are all very human people that end up having to become I guess what is known as the Fantastic Four. So for me it was just a really good story and gives me an opportunity to play something different from my own skin. It’s a proper character and that’s my favorite stuff to do.”