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“I felt as if I was the brunt of some massive joke at my expense: Can you believe this loser can be connected to Marlon Brando and Katharine Hepburn? But through the years I have learned to tolerate and sometimes embrace the idea. People have asked me if I consider it an honour. Well, all it indicates is that I've been in a lot of movies with a lot of people. And besides that there are plenty of other actors that would work.”

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Author:Kevin Bacon

“What guided Chaplin was the proper protection of self-interest (or craziness). So Chapling, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mark Pickford, with DW Griffith and William S Hart, made an alliance, called United Artists, whereby they would own a distribution company that would market their pictures, allowing them a greater return than if they leased the movies to some outside distributor.”

Ifs Made Self Film Artist Interest United Company Greater Return Hollywood Mark Protection Allowing Distribution Self Interest Alliances Craziness Distributors Hart Chaplin

Author:Edward Jay Epstein

“In the first week of the showings of the The Matrix Revolutions, The Godfather and The Godfather Part II played on cable television. I started watching, and I was held; I wanted to go through the process again. Can anyone credit that 30 years from now there will be an audience for the three parts of The Matrix, anywhere? Even if Keanu Reeves is our president by then?”

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Author:Edward Jay Epstein

“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.”

Ifs Thinking World Doe Jobs Artist Actors Goal Hollywood Bunch Filmmaker Decent Disagree Hacks Bad Movies Best Artist

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“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

“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

“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

“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

“if you play the numbers game and become obsessed with it, as so many in Hollywood are, sooner or later you have to face the depressing fact that if you are number one the only place you can go is down.”

Ifs Play Facts Faces Success Games Numbers Hollywood Obsessed Sooner Or Later Depressing

Author:Doris Day

“Los Angeles people are incapable of passively mainlining TV and movies. Here you have to read who produced or directed every episode, who wrote it, who had guests shots and whether you know them personally and if they like you. You have to figure out who everybody's agent is and whether yours is better. You not only know but deeply care about the difference between such job titles as Producer, Supervising Producer, and Executive Story Editor. ... So while the rest of the country is lying stupid in a media-induced coma, people in L.A. are in constant withdrawal.”

Source: Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye

“In its heyday, Hollywood reflected, if it did not actually produce, the sexual climate of our land.”

Ifs Land Produce Hollywood Climate Heyday

Book:Kiss Hollywood good-by

Source: Kiss Hollywood good-by

“And if Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that cool props and special effects are not enough. Story comes first. Everything depends on story.”

Ifs Firsts Enough Stories Special Effects Taught Depends Hollywood Props Taught Us Special Effects

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“If you stay away from parties, you're called a snob. If you go, you're an exhibitionist. If you don't talk, you're dumb. If you do talk, you're quarrelsome. Pardon me while I change my nail polish.”

Ifs Party Hollywood Dumb Nails Polish Pardon Snob Pardon Me Nail Polish Exhibitionist

Author:Lana Turner

“If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?”

Ifs Use Mankind Tests Hollywood Tissues Prognosis

Book:For Keeps

Source: For Keeps

“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.”

Ifs Firsts Body Stars Walks Hollywood Aging Entertainment Fats Bullshit Second Place Money Talks Entertainment Business Body Fat

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“One cannot overstate the potential for hysteria on a movie set. Everyone always acts as if making the movie is as important as eradicating malaria.”

Ifs Important Hollywood Movie Hysteria Malaria Movie Sets

Book:Sister Mother Husband Dog (Etc.)

Source: Sister Mother Husband Dog (Etc.)

“Hollywood is the sort of town where you wake up in the morning and look out to see if it's still there. I expect the whole movie colony to pick up its tents one night and go back to whatever fairyland they came from.”

Ifs Looks Stills Whole Night Morning Picks Hollywood Wake Up Towns One Night Colony Tents

Author:Pamela Moore

“I was told that if I wanted to be a leading man in Hollywood, I couldnt possibly be thought of as gay.”

Ifs Men Wanted Gay Hollywood

Author:Sean Maher

“There are so many things I'd like to change in the industry. Everything from the reliance of style over substance to their reluctance to hire me for big budget blockbusters, but the thing I would love most would be if they understood people don't have to be Hollywood beautiful to be sexy or interesting.”

People Ifs Bigs Would Be Beautiful Interesting Style Industry Understood Hollywood Sexy Substance Budgets Reliance Reluctance Blockbuster

Author:Colin Mochrie

“The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it.”

Ifs Way Matter Hollywood Hot

Author:Elizabeth McGovern

“I think that if Hollywood has a problem, it constantly underestimates the intelligence and integrity of fans.”

Ifs Thinking Problem Fans Integrity Hollywood Underestimate

Author:Matthew Davis

“If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.”

People Ifs Needs Hollywood Conservative Lists

Author:Adam Carolla

“It's a big culture of mind control too, MK-Ultra mind control rules in Hollywood. If you don't know that, google it and look into it. It's really hard for artists to find their voice in the media. It's levels of brainwashing and mind control.”

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Author:Roseanne Barr

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

Ifs Art Play President Roles Hollywood Entertainment Casting

Author:Phil Crane

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

Ifs Art Hollywood Entertainment Orange

Author:Fred Allen

“If you're a young woman in Hollywood, then they want you to look a certain way and paint you in this and that. To this day, it's hard to find people like us, who want to kind of find deep truths, not just skirt above the top of it.”

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Author:Sherilyn Fenn

“If two percent of all the films made in Hollywood are really artistically worthy - and I think it's a lot more than two percent - that's a pretty big percentage of things that will outlive their own generation.”

Ifs Thinking Made Two Bigs Film Generations Percent Hollywood Worthy Percentages

Author:Murray Horwitz

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

Ifs Men Writing Years Issues Hollywood Entertainment Ran Reporters Jerk

Author:Elizabeth Meriwether

“Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.”

People Ifs Way Want Mean Self Action Virtue Clear Hero Hollywood Capitalist Virtuous

Author:Alex Tabarrok

“If conservatives come to control the White House and both Houses of Congress, there will be very little change in Hollywood, the network evening news, universities, church bureaucracies, the New York Times, or the Washington Post. Institutions that are overwhelmingly left-liberal will continue to misinform the public and distort public discourse.”

“If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do; try to be shocking and dirty. They aren't really. It isn't enough to shock. It's easy to shock. Real surprise is what I'm after. Those early movies, we had drugs, which you weren't supposed to show. You weren't supposed to shoot up. We would make fun of hippies. I think that we were punk before there was punk.”

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Author:John Waters

“I find that it's easier to disguise yourself when you go to Florida or places like that, because no one is expecting to see a celebrity there. When you throw on a hat and glasses, no one really looks at you twice - because why would you be in Florida? People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.”

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Author:Megan Fox

“Hypocrisy is bad, but it's not the worst vice in the world. If I declared “murder is wrong” and then killed somebody, I would hope that the top count against me would be homicide, not hypocrisy. Liberal elites ' particularly in Hollywood ' believe that hypocrisy is the gravest sin in the world, which is why they advocate their own lifestyles for the entire world: Sleep with whomever you want, listen to your own instincts, be true to yourself, blah, blah, blah. Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.”

“Hollywood dishes out too much praise for small things I won't let it get me, but too much praise can turn a fellow's head if he doesn't watch his step.”

Ifs Turns Steps Watches Too Much Hollywood Praise Fellows Dishes Small Things

Author:LeBron James

“Today, we know that time travel need not be confined to myths, science fiction, Hollywood movies, or even speculation by theoretical physicists. Time travel is possible. For example, an object traveling at high speeds ages more slowly than a stationary object. This means that if you were to travel into outer space and return, moving close to light speed, you could travel thousands of years into the Earth's future.”

Source: Time: A Traveler's Guide

“Everyone has to pay their child support, and no matter if you're a Hollywood actor or anyone else, it's always a little bit more than you want to pay.”

Ifs Want Children Littles Matter Actors Bits Pay Support Little Bit Hollywood

Author:Ethan Hawke

“Like in [the 1950s] if you wanted to ruin someone´s career in Hollywood you claimed he was a Communist. Nowadays, you want to ruin someone´s career in Hollywood, you claim they are Republican.”

Ifs Want Wanted Political Party Careers Republican Hollywood Claims Ruins Communist Political Parties

Author:Jay Leno

“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.”

Ifs Want Giving Wells Actors Chance Roles Hollywood Give Me Give Me A Chance

Author:Matt Damon

“With Hollywood you're yesterday's news if you get a flop at the box office. So you might as well be braced to have something else to do that's interesting. Have something lined up to keep your stories fulfilled, and your ideas, because if you're just cranking out movies three times a year.”

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Author:David Gordon Green

“I don't really want to start my career again, and I don't like Hollywood. If it had happened to me when I was young, yes, I'd be there like a shot, but I wouldn't like to go there and hang out and go to auditions at my age.”

Ifs Want Age Young Careers Happened Shots Hollywood Hanging Out Auditions

Author:Roger Lloyd-Pack

“[Show] business is tough. You never know who or what's real. It's tough when you get in this business, if you have no grounded foundation other than Hollywood, because this business isn't real. We're getting paid to do what we love, but it isn't real.”

Ifs Knows Real Shows Tough Hollywood Paid Foundation Grounded Show Business

Author:Columbus Short

“Live your life, experience something, and then you're going to have a lot of things to say. But if you hang around in Hollywood, then you're going to say the same thing as everyone else - nothing.”

Ifs Hollywood Life Experience Live Your Life

Author:Luc Besson

“Well cult is a word you would never say in Hollywood. In any film business, if you're trying to get your next film made, you would never say, "Oh, my last film was a cult film." I'd say, "Oh great, well I hope this one isn't!"”

Ifs Trying Wells Made Lasts Film Next Hollywood Cult

Author:John Waters

“When you're in Hollywood and you're a comedian, everybody wants you to do other things. All right, you're a stand-up comedian, can you write us a script? That's not fair. That's like if I worked hard to become a cook, and I'm a really good cook, they'd say, "OK, you're a cook. Can you farm?"”

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Author:Mitch Hedberg

“Movies in general are more generic. If something sells just make more. That's Hollywood.”

Ifs Hollywood Sells Generic Movies In General

Author:Rob Zombie

“Maybe people [in Hollywood] wear really nice clothes, and they drive really nice cars, but that doesn't make me comfortable. And if I'm not comfortable, it won't be a part of my life.”

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Author:Amanda Seyfried

“If Hollywood is the global producer for [media] products all around the world, that's of concern. If all audiences around the world know of America is what they see from Hollywood, then we're in trouble.”

Ifs Knows World America Audience Trouble Media Products Concern Hollywood Producers Around The World

Author:Arthur Dong

“In Hollywood I got work but not the right work until Pushing Daisies. Every girl in LA wanted the part of Chuck. I was terrified - I didn't know if I could be funny.”

Ifs Knows Wanted Girl Hollywood If I Could Pushing Terrified Chuck Daisies Every Girl

Author:Anna Friel

“The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided a plausible adult recreation to grow up into.”

Ifs Children Grows Parent Growing Up Effects Adults Hollywood Movie Recreation Plausible

Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

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