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“I don't just want to be another cog in the gears of Hollywood.”

“As a runner on a film, you are the lowest of the low, and yet you have incredible access to everyone. I can totally imagine that for actors in the middle of a Hollywood bubble, all they really want is a sense of normality, and that gopher can be a tap for that.”

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Author:Eddie Redmayne

“Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.”

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Author:Karrine Steffans

“I enjoyed living in Chicago and doing plays for little or no money. I never actually thought that I would leave Chicago, originally. I wasn't one of those people that had a plan to pack up the van and drive out to Hollywood. I didn't want to.”

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Author:Michael Shannon

“Being a conservative in Hollywood is like walking into a shooting range with a bull's-eye attached to your body. There are more of us than you would believe, but if you want to keep working, you feel like you have to keep quiet.”

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Author:Pat Sajak

“You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.”

Knows Want Actors Musician Hollywood Nashville

Author:Richie Sambora

“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 think Hollywood is so driven by money, the people who are making the decisions are not necessarily reflective of the melting pot, so what stories are you going to want to tell? You're going to want to tell stories about yourself.”

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Author:Sanaa Lathan

“I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe the world.”

Men World Want Stories Hollywood

Author:Bernie Mac

“I really want to do something in Europe. With a small movie, it can be an interesting challenge. But I have to get the right project. I don't think it's so important to go to Hollywood. All that trash that comes out of there! I don't want to do that.”

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Author:Zhang Ziyi

“When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet new people, have new experiences. When I see Hollywood formulas mindlessly repeated, a little something dies inside of me: I have lost two hours to boors who insist on telling me stories I have heard before.”

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Book:Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007

Source: Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007

“When I got to Hollywood, at first I couldn't get a lot of jobs. So I grew a beard and look like a really bad Arab, and I started to get a lot of work because that's what they want.”

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Author:Sayed Badreya

“A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone's scared to take a chance. There's money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.”

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Author:Billy Eichner

“They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.”

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Book:Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler

Source: Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler

“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.”

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Author:Taron Egerton

“When I get called in for stuff for Hollywood, I get to be the best friend of the Caucasian leadIf I want to play the main guy, I have found, I have to write it.”

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Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda

“I want to abolish tags like 'comeback' and 'retirement' that are used to define every married female actor. What is the big deal? In Hollywood, every top actor takes a break, has children, and gets back to work.”

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Author:Karisma Kapoor

“There seems to be a notion in Hollywood that if you want to make money, you have to sacrifice doing good work with integrity. And I think that's bullshit. I think that's an excuse, and it's what people say who are scared that they can't do good work.”

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Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life.”

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Author:Sydney Pollack

“In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.”

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Author:David Geffen

“The people who've done well within the [Hollywood] system are the people whose instincts, whose desires [are in natural alignement with those of the producers] - who want to make the kind of movies that producers want to produce. People who don't succeed - people who've had long, bad times; like [Jean] Renoir, for example, who I think was the best director, ever - are the people who didn't want to make the kind of pictures that producers want to make. Producers didn't want to make a Renoir picture, even if it was a success.”

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Author:Orson Welles

“When you think of Hollywood, you think of the land of opportunity. I always want to have the opportunity to do things conducive to my career.”

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Author:Raekwon

“I'm an independent filmmaker with complete creative control of my films. I hire who I want. I have final cut. But at the same time, I go directly to Hollywood for financing and distribution. I find it's best for me to work within the Hollywood system.”

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Book:Spike Lee: Interviews

Source: Spike Lee: Interviews

“I've been a writer for a long time but I kind of had to get rid of a lot of the things I learned in Hollywood but I kept some of them too. And things I kept were: don't be precious, kill your darlings is always good, give it dynamics - you don't want it to be all joyful, all sad.”

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Author:Maya Forbes

“People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.”

People Thinking Men Want Audience Hollywood Maintenance

Author:Terry Gilliam

“Those individuals from the far left, and I'm talking about the Hollywood elitists and the United Nations and those individuals want us to believe it's because we are contributing CO2 to the atmosphere, that's causing global warming. It's all about money. I mean, what would happen to the Weather Channel's ratings if all the sudden people weren't scared anymore?”

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Author:James Inhofe

“Oh, nobody would ever want to know me in Hollywood. I'm far too puffin-faced for that, too weird-looking. No, I think I'll probably stick to telly, if telly'll have me, though I wouldn't mind doing radio plays as well.”

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Author:Tamsin Greig

“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.”

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Author:David Arquette

“Hollywood, we decided, was a nice place to die, but we wouldn't want to live there.”

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Book:I KID YOU NOT

Source: I KID YOU NOT

“The movies have been so rank the last couple of years that when I see people lining up to buy tickets I sometimes think that the movies aren't drawing an audience - they're inheriting an audience. People just want to go to a movie. They're stung repeatedly, yet their desire for a good movie - for any movie - is so strong that all over the country they keep lining up.”

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Book:Raising Kane and Other Essays

Source: Raising Kane and Other Essays

“I'm not in this business to win a popularity contest, I just want to be a good actor. Well, you've failed at being a good actor. Why not try for the popularity contest?”

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Author:Roger Moore

“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 understand the feelings of critics asked to come up with the ten best films of any year, who say, Ten? Ten's a lot! - and those more generous spirits whose thumbs grow as long as Pinocchio's nose from overrating a lot of pictures, because they want the medium to do well, and because they'd like to feel good about it.”

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Author:Edward Jay Epstein

“The attempt is that we want to get a couple of minutes under our belt, depending on how good the tests are and take that into Hollywood. The fallback is we're going to DVD anyways. We've got that covered.”

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Author:Todd McFarlane

“I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with great artists from all over the world.”

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Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“I hope Hong Kong and Asia wants to hire American Asian actresses as much as Hollywood has been hiring Chinese actors from Asia.”

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Author:Ming-Na Wen

“I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor.”

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Author:Ryan Gosling

“I live in Minnesota. Lots of people assume that if you want to be an actor, you have to live in Hollywood, but not me.”

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Author:Chris Massoglia

“I don't look like Catherine Zeta-Jones, so I don't think Hollywood would be that interested in me, to be honest. I just want nice work.”

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Author:Anne-Marie Duff

“Id be lying if I said Hollywood wasnt still an ambition; its everyones, isnt it? Youre getting paid very well, youre working with great actors and great directors - who wouldnt want to be a part of that? But its not going to break my heart if it doesnt happen. This business is about doing good work rather than how famous it makes you.”

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Author:Max Beesley

“Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too. Now go ahead and ask me if I'm still Polish. You people keep asking me this question. You want Polish artists to make it in the world, but when they do, you accuse them of treason.”

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Author:Roman Polanski

“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

“Writers who go to Hollywood still follow the classic pattern: either you get disgusted by 'them' and you leave or you want the money and you become them.”

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Author:Pauline Kael

“I just want choices. Its not about making money and having a lot of friends in Hollywood; thats the last thing I want.”

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Author:Bojana Novakovic

“in Hollywood, everyone wants what someone else wants. It's like a law.”

Want Law Hollywood

Author:Max D. Adams

“The wise screen writer is he who wears his second-best suit, artistically speaking, and doesn't take things too much to heart. He should have a touch of cynicism, but only a touch. The complete cynic is as useless to Hollywood as he is to himself. He should do the best he can without straining at it. He should be scrupulously honest about his work, but he should not expect scrupulous honesty in return. He won't get it. And when he has had enough, he should say goodbye with a smile, because for all he knows he may want to go back.”

“Selling one's book to Hollywood is rather like selling someone your house. After it's sold, it isn't yours anymore. They can paint it a different color, tear it down and build something new, or do anything they want.”

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Author:Rick Riordan

“I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on the character. In Hollywood, what more can you ask for. You want a consummate professional.”

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Author:Martin Lawrence

“When you get quick fame and success and exposure, it makes you feel dizzy, and I didn't want to lose my balance 'cause that's something I've been struggling with for so many years. I'm not fond of the idea of making it in Hollywood. That's not my aim; otherwise, I would have settled down in Los Angeles.”

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Author:Ludivine Sagnier

“I will not be doing any FHM or crazy Maxim magazines. I will leave that to the other actresses in Hollywood who want to shed their clothes because they think that's beneficial to them. I would much rather chose a creative way - like in a movie.”

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Author:Michelle Trachtenberg

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