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“For me, I've never been too concerned of what people think of me, so now as the youngest Baldwin brother in Hollywood making movies while simultaneously being a charismatic evangelical born again Christian who's an evangelist - that's a pretty crazy combination. But early on in my walk of faith I said a very personal prayer and made a commitment to God. I said if you reveal yourself to me in a way that is more thrilling and powerful and exciting than anything I've experience thus far, then I'll go anywhere and do whatever you want. And that can be very tough.”

“I went from a naive, regular girl in high school to trying to realize my dream. When my family moved from the East Coast to California, I thought in my little brain, "Wow, I'm going to Hollywood. I could actually make this happen." It was easier for me to think it's possible living in a place like Los Angeles than trying to do it in suburban Maryland.”

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Author:Joan Jett

“In Hollywood, I think I get a bad rap for being a perfectionist. It's something that's not always welcomed in Hollywood, because you're always pushing people and you're pushing yourself to be the best that you can be.”

People Thinking Hollywood Rap Being The Best Pushing Perfectionist Push Yourself

Author:Vin Diesel

“There's been an amazing backlash for the last decade in America: political correctness. In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been. But traditional Hollywood has been much more frightened than it ever was in the '70s about presenting things that could be perceived as politically incorrect.”

“I was this Swedish kid who came over here to study engineering, but I got into movies, and suddenly I'm in this 'Rocky' picture with Sylvester Stallone. And then the movie comes out, and it's a big hit, and I'm famous. Like, world famous. I wasn't thinking of ruling Hollywood; I was thinking of just trying to make it to the next day, trying to figure out what the hell happened.”

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Author:Dolph Lundgren

“What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job.”

People Thinking Long Has Beens Made Matter Jobs Actors Office Hollywood Boxes Think Of You Box Office

Author:Diane Kruger

“English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.”

Thinking Knows Stills Different Film Culture Language Hollywood Starting China Different Place Hong Kong

Author:Bai Ling

“I think what destroys Hollywood marriages is our work schedule, not so much infidelity.”

Thinking Hollywood Infidelity Schedules

Author:Eva Longoria

“People think in Hollywood there's a family, where everybody gets together talks about stuff and we all know each other, and it's just not that way at all to me.”

People Thinking Knows Way Together Stuff Hollywood

Author:David Lynch

“When I think about old Hollywood and the glamour of those days, women like Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn were not dressing the way some girls dress today. There was a certain mystery about them, and I feel like that's gone in our industry.”

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Author:Aly Michalka

“I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.”

Thinking Years Stills Actors Audience Hero Hollywood Movie

Author:Wilson Mizner

“I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.”

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Book:My Story

Source: My Story

“When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.”

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Author:Mandy Moore

“Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood.”

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Author:Dee Dee Myers

“I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.”

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Author:Gary Oldman

“Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.”

People Thinking Needs Children Views Smart Hollywood Idiot

Author:Trey Parker

“I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.”

Thinking Wanted Actors Amount Hollywood Timing Blair Underrated

Author:Tyler Perry

“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 first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set.”

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Author:Keith Thibodeaux

“Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.”

Thinking Should Eye Girl Tests Hollywood Screens Teenage Through The Eyes Teenage Girl

Book:Self-portrait

Source: Self-portrait

“I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.”

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Author:Denzel Washington

“I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.”

Thinking World I Can Problem Film Interest Audience Hollywood

Author:Orson Welles

“I think Hollywood has seen what fandom can do for a project. You can definitely see that when you go to Comic-con.”

Thinking Can Do Projects Hollywood Comic Comic Con Fandoms

Author:Felicia Day

“In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.”

People Ifs Thinking Crazy Hollywood Therapy Shrinks Psychotherapy

Author:Johnny Carson

“In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They're relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists.”

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Author:Tim Burton

“Farms and food production should be, I submit, at least as important as who pierced their navel in Hollywood this week. Please tell me I'm not the only one who believes this. Please. As a culture, we think we're well educated, but I'm not sure that what we've learned necessarily helps us survive.”

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Author:Joel Salatin

“Everyone in Hollywood thinks like a Republican fiscally by leaving town to shoot everything; they just don't vote that way.”

Thinking Way Republican Hollywood Vote Towns Leaving

Author:Adam Carolla

“When I was younger, I used to vacillate between thinking love was this great and glorious mystery and thinking it was just something a bunch of Hollywood move producers made up to sell more tickets in the Depression, when Dish Night kind of played out." Eddie laughed. Now I think that all of us are born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You...Eddie, you fill me up.”

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Author:Stephen King

“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

“Hollywood is like high school, there are always going to be people who hate you and people who like you. When you're a teen, [that's tough] because you're hyper-aware of what other people are gonna say and think. But neither defines who you are as a person or how successful you are unless you let them.”

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Author:Debby Ryan

“On how he spent his first Hollywood paycheck "I think my first big purchase was actually for my mom. She had one of those '90s TVs in her living room that's like a 10×10 brick, so I purchased her a flatscreen for her living room.”

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Author:Dave Franco

“This country's crazy in terms of fame and what people think it means. They expect a writer to be something between a Hollywood starlet and the village idiot.”

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Author:Kent Haruf

“Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply.”

People Thinking Wells Young Asks Married Hollywood Ask Me Memorable Bogart

Author:Lauren Bacall

“My son tells me, 'Do you realize you are the last one? The last person who was an eyewitness to the golden age?' Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply. You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks. I could show you some, but I'd have to climb ladders, and I can't climb”

“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.”

“I've never been turned down for a role because I'm gay. I'm a character actor, and that's probably why. I don't find Hollywood, in my own experience, to be homophobic. ... But I do think the straight folks will continue to play the straight roles.”

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Author:Jane Lynch

“The last thing I want to turn into is a fat Hollywood jerk. I was brought up without much money and I was happy. I don’t think that I will strive for money or success and end up greedy or big-headed. That only leads to unhappiness. I can still be down-to-earth and do this job as long as I enjoy it.”

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Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons.”

Thinking World Reason Hollywood Cynical Remakes

Author:Gerard Butler

“Ronald Reagan just signed the new tax law. But I think he was in Hollywood too long. He signed it, 'Best wishes, Ronald Reagan.'”

Thinking Long Law Wish Taxes Hollywood Best Wishes

Author:Johnny Carson

“I think I have always tried to do the smaller films. I like to jump around and there is something really nice for acting in a smaller film... But I think now, Hollywood's movies certainly involve a younger generation for the most part and so... I love going back and forth.”

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Author:Sigourney Weaver

“I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.”

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Author:Brittany Murphy

“The last couple of years were hell. Like, I can't even tell you, it was so hard. I didn't know how to handle it. But I think I'm in a much better place now, because I stepped away for a second and took a breath. Hollywood is a funny place. It offers so much, but it can also take a lot away from you.”

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Author:Cameron Diaz

“It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.”

Ifs Thinking Want Running Careers Path Perception Hollywood Suicide What You Want Downfall

Author:Charlie Hunnam

“If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible.”

Ifs Thinking Hollywood Depressing Really Depressing

Author:Ben Affleck

“All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn't understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting.”

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Author:Marisa Tomei

“This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.”

Thinking May Tradition Okay Hollywood Disregard Factual

Author:Christian Slater

“Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It's not going to do me any good.”

Thinking Want Voice Hollywood Establishment Lone

Author:James Woods

“Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don't think of them as disabled. You amputate part of a nose, that's 'enhancement'. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that's 'augmentation'. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it's 'disability'?”

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Author:Aimee Mullins

“I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing, I think you ought to try to say something with your movies.”

Thinking Want Trying Ought Hollywood

Author:Ellen Page

“I'm a big fan of glamour. It's something I don't think there's enough of in Hollywood anymore. I enjoy putting on a sexy dress and heels. I want to work it.”

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Author:Ali Larter

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