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“I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.”

Thinking Want Character Able Position Type Hollywood Tongue Bites Villain

Author:Gabrielle Union

“I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.”

Done Character Film Stuff Roles Tvs Type Hollywood Theater Leading Ladies

Author:Sanaa Lathan

“Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.”

Type Hollywood Producers Disappointed Amusement Amused

Author:Bela Lugosi

“I'm not sure that I want my life to consist of Hollywood franchises, to be honest. There are other types of work that I'm interested in, like theater and just more serious drama and I just don't know.”

Knows Want Honest Serious Type Drama Hollywood Theater Being Honest Not Sure

Author:Taron Egerton

“When I was a Hollywood press agent, I learned how the Hollywood casting system worked. There was a roster of actors who were always perfect as doctors or lawyers or laborers, and the directors just picked the types they needed and stuffed them into film after film. I do the same [with my characters], book after book.”

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Author:Richard Condon

“Hollywood's two polar types are the cynically drunken writer aggressively nursing a ten-year-old reputation and the theatrically self-conscious hermit who strides the boulevard in sandals, home-made shorts and a prophetic beard, muttering against the Age of the Machines.”

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“My upbringing was very un-Hollywood. I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch. I was never really smitten by the business in those days, never a fan type - just a basic kid watching TV. It wasn't like I was an insider. I was never really brought into the show business side of my father's life. I guess that's been a blessing and a downfall. But it's made my own work the initiation.”

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Author:Stephanie Zimbalist

“If you do something and it proves to be a success, then people go 'get him to do that type of thing again, but only slightly different'. Either you do that or you go 'No! I want to play a leprous, lesbian dwarf from Guatemala!' But those parts just aren't coming to me.”

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Author:Jack Davenport

“I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.”

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Author:Haile Gerima

“I approach the film business the way I feel about self-esteem. It's something that has to be maintained. That's kind of how I feel about positive roles in Hollywood. They have to be maintained. You have to purposefully, intentionally try to make the right type of films. And the more people that do that, the more things will continue to improve.”

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Author:Queen Latifah

“It's hard to not get typed in Hollywood. They really want to type you. I'm trying to avoid that, because I want to do a lot of things. I know what I'm capable of. I forgive them because they don't know. They haven't seen me play Hamlet. They're not going to cast me as an English aristocrat. I'm going to have to prove that on my own. That's okay. That's what you have to fight for if you want to be an artist.”

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Author:Sam Rockwell

“For us it's always about making sure that there's substance, that things are well thought out, they're real, they're going to happen versus just haphazardly making Hollywood type announcements. So that's where we are there [on Comic-Con], just making sure that when we do something to say that it's something.”

Wells Real Happens Type Hollywood Comic Substance Versus Announcements Comic Con

Author:Thomas Tull

“I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.”

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Author:Eddie Marsan

“Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility.”

Wanted Certain Comedy Style Type Hollywood Comic Loud Sensibility Jam Ghetto Brash

Author:Larry Wilmore

“I think if you look at Hollywood as a whole and the type of content that they put out over the years, it's pretty homogeneous, right? They haven't done a really deep dive into a lot of stories of people of color. I don't want to say that there haven't been attempts, and there has been some great product that has come out over the years, but I think in 2016, we're in a world of struggle. It's not just about race, it's also about the LGBT community too and others.”

People Ifs Thinking World Want Years Looks Has Beens Done Whole Stories Community Race Struggle Havens Color Products Type Hollywood Lgbt Really Deep Homogeneous Lgbt Community

Author:Mike Jackson

“It's at my mom's house! She keeps everything. We were talking about it the other day - I threw something away, like our passes from Hollywood Horror Nights, and she was like, "Where are they?" I was like, "I threw them out." She was like, "You are just not the sentimental type."”

Night House Talking Like You Mom Type Horror Hollywood My Mom Sentimental

Author:Jodi Sweetin

“I'm not the Hollywood type of person.”

Persons Type Hollywood

Author:Dwight Henry

“No matter what's offered to me, I would never in a million years be the big headed Hollywood type.”

Years Matter Bigs Millions Type Hollywood No Matter What

Author:Dwight Henry

“If you think that people today, like Hollywood, are ever gonna sing [Donald] Trump's praises, it's never gonna happen. It's only going to get worse. And they know it at the White House. They're not expecting these people to be won over. That's not why Trump's doing anything he's doing. They don't expect the establishment types to one day say, "You know what? You're right, Mr. Trump, this is great. We like what you're doing." It's never gonna happen. They don't expect that to happen.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I hope I can make some Hollywood-type action films like 'Batman' or 'Spiderman', action films like that. With some wire work, maybe wearing a mask. Like that.”

I Can Action Film Type Hollywood Mask Wire Action Films Wearing A Mask

Author:Jackie Chan

“Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous.”

Type Hollywood Budgets Squeezing

Author:Steven Spielberg

“There is a bit of arrogance with 'Hollywood' types that doesn't sit well with game developers.”

Wells Games Bits Type Hollywood Arrogance Developers

Author:Wesley Snipes

“In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have OK teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already”

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Author:John Corbett