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“Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse.”

Ifs World Made Left Hollywood Towns Excuse Around The World

Author:Cesar Romero

“Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.”

People Thinking Whole Industry Degrees Six Hollywood Towns Small Town Bumps Kevin

Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a little provincial and insular.”

Littles Sometimes America Hollywood Towns West Coast Small Town West Coast

Author:Howard Stringer

“I learned Hollywood is a small community, and you really have to be a part of the community to get anything done. Unlike traditional industries, where you can do things from afar with phone calls and e-mail, this town is really about being social. Because that's how trust gets built.”

Done Social Can Do Community Industry Built Hollywood Towns Phones Traditional Mail Phone Calls Afar Small Communities

Author:Jeffrey Skoll

“You know, Hollywood is a very interesting town - always has been, always will be.”

Knows Has Beens Interesting Hollywood Towns Very Interesting

Author:Zachary Levi

“Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.”

Practice Hollywood Towns Mediums Cinema

Author:Frank Miller

“I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.”

Littles Hollywood Towns Backgrounds Ireland Broadway Little Towns Derry

Author:Damian McGinty

“The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard.”

Source: Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard

“I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.”

People Want Different Lying Behinds Hollywood Towns Rely Hiding Dislike Falsehood Dishonesty Facade

Author:David Arquette

“Things have really changed here in Hollywood. Used to be people in this town couldn't wait to get an envelope full of white powder.”

People Funny Used Waiting White Changed Hollywood Towns Used To Be California Envelopes Powder

Author:Jay Leno

“It's a mining town in lotus land.”

Land Hollywood Towns Mining Lotuses

Book:The Love of the Last Tycoon: The Authorized Text

Source: The Love of the Last Tycoon: The Authorized Text

“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

“[On Hollywood:] This is no town for a come back, people are too unsure of themselves.”

People Hollywood Towns Unsure

Author:Pamela Moore

“We always say about Hollywood that it's a company town and it's sort of is. It's like in Washington, they say, you know, the company is the government.”

Knows Government Company Hollywood Towns

Author:Murray Horwitz

“Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so rich with irony that it's a better subject for a comic novel than a column.... On one coast the cops are busting sex workers on Eighth Avenue, dragging them downtown to night court where they pay the fine and go right back to their corner; on another they're charging Heidi Fleiss with pandering in a town in which the verb is an art form.”

“Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood's Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town. I am appalled by this Marilyn Monroe cult. Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous. I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.”

Wells Mean Known Mets Hollywood Ultimate Let Me Towns Screens Courageous Cult Fabulous Lambs Arcs Be Courageous Acts Of Courage Garbo

Author:Billy Wilder

“I'm not ready to pack my bags and leave the town and my business that I love and my kids that I love more than anything and pack them up and come to Hollywood. I love California. I love Hollywood. But I'm not ready to uproot what I believe in to come to Hollywood.”

Believe Kids I Believe Ready Hollywood Towns I Believe In California Bags Packs Not Ready

Author:Dwight Henry

“I was born in the same town as Richard Burton, the actor, and I saw him, he used to come - he and his wife drove by in the car in my father's shop and Burton would come home from Hollywood and ask him for his autograph, and I thought, I want to be like him. And that's all I said to myself, I want to be like that. I want to get out of this environment of my own empty mind.”

Want Mind Said Home Used Actors Asks Father Born My Own Environment Saws Wife Car Empty Hollywood Towns Shops Coming Home Autographs Empty Mind

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“The American independent cinema is as formulaic as Hollywood and one genre is what you might call the 'inaction movie'. The setting is invariably a decaying town in a regional backwater where a catalytic stranger or returning native meets up with a group of sad, eccentric outsiders.”

Might Groups Hollywood Towns Independent Stranger Setting Settings Genre Cinema Native Outsiders Inaction Eccentric Genre Is

Author:Philip French

“I never know what my next move will be in Hollywood. It's such an unpredictable town. People get jaded and lost and I've been able to stay a float. I think the next logical step in my career would be to start my own filmmaking empire like (Harvey Weinstein) and (Bob Weinstein) did so many years ago. I think if only the unions weren't so strict in Boston, I'd set up shop there and make films of a certain quality you don't see represented these days. I'm full of ideas and dreams.”

“The one thing I have found about Hollywood is it's a town full of people who believe in themselves, often to a degree where they're what you would call "delusional."”

People Believe Found One Thing Degrees Hollywood Towns Delusional

Author:Diablo Cody

“You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.”

People Ifs Knows Way Persons Left Hollywood Towns Vacation Plastic Surgery Plastic Surgery

Author:Michael Jackson

“The radical rightwing pegs Hollywood as a leftist town, which is completely wrong. There are a lot of actors, writers, and directors who talk a liberal agenda... but all the studio bosses, for as long as there have been studios, have all been as far rightwing as you can possibly imagine.”

Long Has Beens Actors Imagine Directors Hollywood Towns Studios Radical Agendas Boss Leftists Peg

Author:Paul Haggis

“I naturally have some curves, like most women, just unfortunately not like most women in Hollywood. I'm only considered curvy in Hollywood. It's a weird town.”

Hollywood Towns Curves Curvy

Author:Amber Heard

“I live a very international life, but when I come back to Hollywood, a town I love in a lot of ways, I have to wonder, "What decade are you in? Like, seriously, what decade? It's not this one."”

Way Wonder Hollywood Towns International Decades

Author:Rose McGowan

“When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.”

World Littles Home School Grows High School Hollywood Towns Driving Circles Block Little Towns Home Town School Friends High School Friends

Author:Robert Rodriguez

“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”

Men Littles Long Bigs Animal Mistake Brain Stupid Taste Office Enlightenment Hollywood Towns Luck Arrogance Fancy Lots Of Money Small Town Knack Little Man Stupidest

Author:Raymond Chandler

“Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!”

Happens Company Crosses Hollywood Towns Insane Farms Recreation Asylums Insane Asylum Lunatic Asylums

Author:Michael Caine

“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

“Hollywood is a coke town, but weed is so much better. And Molly, too; those are happy drugs - social drugs. They make you want to be with friends. You're out in the open. You're not in a bathroom.”

Want Social Drug Hollywood Towns Weed Marijuana Bathroom Coke

Author:Miley Cyrus

“If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?”

Ifs Two Party Hollywood Towns

Author:Jon Voight

“I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite”

Thinking Doe Hollywood Opposites Towns Southern Small Town Cliche Small Town Life

Author:Josh Lucas

“Hollywood, young or otherwise, is a very trend-driven town, and that can get a little out of hand at times. I just try to stay true to my own personal taste - incorporating my personality while not taking myself too seriously.”

Trying Littles Hands Young My Own Personality Taste Hollywood Towns Driven Trends Stay True Incorporating Personal Taste

Author:Skylar Astin

“I don't know what they call Hollywood anymore. The whole meaning of the town has changed.”

Knows Whole Changed Hollywood Towns

Author:Claire Trevor