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“My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.”

Firsts Mother Father Born Generations Hollywood Raised Greek Native Los Angeles Born And Raised Bulgarians

Author:Rita Wilson

“Mother loathed the all-black B movies Hollywood made for the "colored" audience, where the stereotypes were broader and more offensive to her, and where the musical interludes did no justice to real talent, she said, but trivialized it.”

Made Said Real Mother Black Justice Audience Talent Hollywood Musical Offensive Stereotype All Black Real Talent

Book:The Hottest Water in Chicago: Notes of a Native Daughter

Source: The Hottest Water in Chicago: Notes of a Native Daughter

“My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.”

People Ends Mother Terrible Hollywood Iniquity Dens

Author:Kitty Carlisle

“I think my mother became the muse because she had everything when she was in Hollywood: she had the marriage, the success, the money, all the films she wanted to do and yet even her, she had a longing and wanted to work with a film that had meaning, something more profound. And I think that was very touching to father.”

Thinking Wanted Film Mother Father Hollywood Longing Profound Touching Muse Meaning Something

Author:Isabella Rossellini

“The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.”

Thinking Way Real Mother Given Voice Inspiring Audience Missing Honesty Members Hollywood Saint Motherhood Mothers Day

Author:Ellen Barkin

“My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood. But the New York theater was completely exotic and fabulous to me.”

Whole Mother New York Grew Grew Up Hollywood Theater Fabulous Exotic Whole Family

Author:Tony Goldwyn

“You know how Van Nuys got its name? Well, one day my little old Jewish mother was visiting me, and I took her to the top of the Hollywood Hills and had her view the valley below just at sunset. Well, mama, what would you call that? And she said, Ver nize.”

Knows Wells Littles Said Mother Names Views Know How One Day Hollywood Hills Sunset Valleys Vans Mama Visiting Jewish Mother Hollywood Hills

Author:Joey Bishop

“Marla [from Rules Don't Apply] especially, believed that she has a certain set of rules that she had to abide by, in order to be successful in Hollywood. How she acted, how she approached things and even in her relationship with her mother - there were a lot more rules and regulations expected of ambitious women, even before they got into the door.”

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Author:Lily Collins

“Don't depend on acting as your sole source of income. Work nights, so you can have your days off to attend auditions. Have something to fall back on. That's what my mother taught me, and it's critical in Hollywood.”

Mother Night Fall Acting Taught Source Depends Hollywood Critical Income Sole Auditions Fall Back Days Off

Author:Michael Clarke Duncan

“My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.”

World Kind Mother New York Scene Hollywood Theater Actresses Downtown

Author:Martha Plimpton

“In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.”

Mother My Own Clothes Hollywood Distress

Book:Self-portrait

Source: Self-portrait

“It is said that life begins when the fetus can exist apart from its mother. By this definition, many people in Hollywood are legally dead.”

People Life Said Mother Hollywood Definitions Motherhood Fetus

Author:Jay Leno

“My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.”

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Author:Carol Burnett

“I have an amazing mother who's a real tough cookie. She taught me not to get emotional about [sexism in Hollywood], just be really practical and objective. Later, in the privacy of my own home, maybe I'll bawl or break some dishes, but you just have to keep going. It's not about fighting, it's about educating.”

Real Home Mother Fighting My Own Break Emotional Taught Mom Tough Hollywood Motherhood Practicals Objectives Privacy Keep Going Sexism Being Real Dishes Cookies

Author:Zoe Saldana

“You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.”

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Author:Lillian Gish

“I don't want my dad to say, 'My daughter is an actress on a TV show.' I want him to say, 'My daughter cares about people.' I would love to know that I'm a role model in Hollywood.”

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Author:AnnaLynne McCord

“My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very difficult to get work so when I was born they put me into dance classes and singing classes as soon as I could walk actually.”

Country Mother Found Difficult Born Walks Class Singing Hollywood Moved Western Singers Dance Class

Author:Morgan Brittany