“My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character.” WorldShouldPersonsMadeCharacterMistakeAudienceLoversNormalOrdinaryShould HaveHollywoodSaneNeuroticOrdinary PersonPerfectly NormalLead Characters Author:Gene Wilder
“We're all flawed, and we all make mistakes, and we all have weaknesses. And those are the kind of people I want to see onscreen, the ones that feel like real flesh-and-blood human beings and not the weird, whitewashed, Hollywood stand-ins for people with the rough edges sanded off that I can't connect to because they just don't resonate with me.” PeopleWantFeelsHumansKindI CanRealHuman BeingsMistakeBloodWeaknessHollywoodEdgesFleshMaking MistakesRoughFlawedFlesh And BloodWe All Make MistakesRough Edges Author:Lynn Shelton
“Going through your late teens and early 20s is not an easy time, especially in Hollywood. So you just learn your lessons, you make your mistakes and you move on.” MovingEasyMistakeLessonsLateHollywoodTeensEarly 20s Author:Reagan Gomez-Preston
“I made the mistake early in my career, when I moved to Hollywood, of being attracted to actresses. I used to go out exclusively with actresses and other female impersonators.” MadeUsedMistakeCareersFemaleHollywoodMovedActressesImpersonators Book:Heartland Source: Heartland
“Its big men are mostly little men with fancy offices and a lot of money. A great many of them are stupid little men, with reach-me-down brains, small-town arrogance and a sort of animal knack of smelling out the taste of the stupidest part of the public. They have played in luck so long that they have come to mistake luck for enlightenment." - on Hollywood” MenLittlesLongBigsAnimalMistakeBrainStupidTasteOfficeEnlightenmentHollywoodTownsLuckArroganceFancyLots Of MoneySmall TownKnackLittle ManStupidest Author:Raymond Chandler
“Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.” PeopleHumorFunnyStarsMistakeHollywoodIowaOld HollywoodHollywood Stars Author:Fred Allen