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“If you're a big Hollywood star, you make one movie a year at the most. I can make five in Europe.”

Ifs Years I Can Bigs Stars Five Europe Hollywood Hollywood Stars

“My first ten years in Hollywood were really tough. I'd be coaching friends who came to me for acting advice, and then they'd make it before I did. I'd still be helping them while they were on movie sets and I had four lines on a TV show.”

Years Firsts Stills Helping Shows Lines Acting Four Advice Tvs Ten Tough Hollywood Coaching Tv Shows Movie Sets

Author:Michael Pena

“The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, 'Who won the Oscar last year?'”

Years Lasts Actors Asks Winning Months Hollywood Twelve Last Year Oscars

Author:Cliff Robertson

“I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?”

Years Happens Three Stuff Cutting Happened Hollywood Three Years Stuff Happens

Author:Dana Fox

“Any topical subject, if it's Hollywood, will be a couple of years later because you've got to write it, produce it and distribute it, so automatically you're never going to be right on the cutting edge of stories.”

Ifs Writing Years Stories Cutting Subjects Produce Couple Hollywood Edges Cutting Edge

Author:George Clooney

“The culture now in television is that the presenter calls the financial and, increasingly, the creative shots. It is comparable to what happened in Hollywood 15 or so years ago.”

Years Culture Creative Happened Television Shots Years Ago Hollywood Financial Presenter

Author:Terry Wogan

“Even if I get thrown out of Hollywood, I'll come back. It took me 14 years to get where I am. I'm going to hang in there.”

Ifs Years Hollywood Thrown Hang In There

Author:Tanya Roberts

“I think Hollywood's gotten more reactionary and conservative over the years, because there's no longer art in Hollywood. Art suffers in Hollywood.”

Thinking Years Art Suffering Hollywood Conservative Reactionaries

Author:Ricky Gervais

“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.”

Source: Exhumations: Stories, Articles, Verses

“When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.”

Years Young Actors Television Hollywood Rings Agents Evening Young Actors

Author:Michael Caine

“A few of my books, over the years, have been optioned for film. The subject matter of my books, however, is not exactly conducive to Hollywood film treatment. If and when a 'big-budget' film is ever made based on one of my books, my fans and I will more than likely loathe it because it won't be true to its source. That's almost a given.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Made Book Matter Bigs Film Given Fans Subjects Source Hollywood Being True Budgets Treatment Subject Matter Loathe Ifs And Hollywood Films

Author:Richard Laymon

“Every so often in the last 20 years, Hollywood has called. And every time they've called, we've answered? because they have lots of money.”

Years Lasts Hollywood Lots Of Money

Author:Margo Timmins

“Half of the people in this room are more dressed up than on any other day in the year, and the other half are more dressed down.”

People Years Film Rooms Half Hollywood Other Half Dressed Up

Author:Bill Murray

“It's Sir Ben. I've not been a Mister for two years.”

Years Two Film Hollywood Two Years

Author:Ben Kingsley

“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.”

People Thinking Want Years Has Beens Country Sometimes Lasts Film Desire Strong Audience Couple Hollywood Drawing Tickets Good Movie Lining Up

Book:Raising Kane and Other Essays

Source: Raising Kane and Other Essays

“If I don't do this film. I'll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.”

Ifs Years Film Next Acting Hollywood Corsets

Author:Keira Knightley

“I felt as if I was the brunt of some massive joke at my expense: Can you believe this loser can be connected to Marlon Brando and Katharine Hepburn? But through the years I have learned to tolerate and sometimes embrace the idea. People have asked me if I consider it an honour. Well, all it indicates is that I've been in a lot of movies with a lot of people. And besides that there are plenty of other actors that would work.”

People Ifs Years Believe Wells Ideas Sometimes Film Actors Felt Jokes Hollywood Embrace Connected Plenty Massive Expenses Honour Loser Tolerate I Have Learned Through The Years Hepburn Brando

Author:Kevin Bacon

“I have been working out for 30 years, staying in shape in the dream that someday I would get to play a sex scene. Finally I get one, and they cut it.”

Years Has Beens Play Dream Film Sex Cutting Scene Shapes Hollywood Work Out Someday Staying

Author:William H. Macy

“Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in the years before the First World War in and around Boston. He had noticed that people liked going into the dark to see the light... the appeal of the movies is beyond the sensible, rational or the hard-working. Going into the dark, afte centuries of progress in which mankind has staggered toward artificial light, smacks of delicious perversity.”

“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.”

Want Feels Years Wells Long Feelings Film Spirit Grows Ten Hollywood Critics Come Up Feel Good Mediums Noses Generous Thumbs Best Film Generous Spirit

Author:Edward Jay Epstein

“In the first week of the showings of the The Matrix Revolutions, The Godfather and The Godfather Part II played on cable television. I started watching, and I was held; I wanted to go through the process again. Can anyone credit that 30 years from now there will be an audience for the three parts of The Matrix, anywhere? Even if Keanu Reeves is our president by then?”

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Author:Edward Jay Epstein

“By the time I was 11, I wanted to be a comedian. So all those years later, I've managed to achieve my dream as a kid, and it wasn't easy. I'm on the [Hollywood] Walk of Fame and I'm one of the 25 most influential Hispanics in America, according to Time Magazine. I think my duty is to go back and tell kids, 'Whatever color you are, wherever you come from, anything and everything is possible.' And I'm living proof.”

Thinking Years Dream Kids Wanted America Easy Walks Achieve Color Duty Fame Hollywood Proof Magazines Comedian Influential Anything And Everything Living Proof Time Magazine

Author:George Lopez

“The Hollywood Foreign Press have just given me a time out from my 20-year midlife crisis. My heartfelt thanks to them.”

Years Given Hollywood Crisis Presses Thanks Heartfelt Midlife Midlife Crisis Heartfelt Thanks

Author:Colin Firth

“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.”

Want Feels Years Ideas Causes Loses Struggle Balance Fame Hollywood Aim Los Angeles Exposure Dizzy

Author:Ludivine Sagnier

“I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.”

Way Years Actors Found Voice Natural Simple Five Stage Ordinary Hollywood Studios Five Years Gestures Eliminating

Author:Walter Huston

“Look at me - I was the boo boy for years and years. Did I ever think I would end up in Hollywood or the FA Cup final? No, I didn't.”

Thinking Years Looks Ends Boys Hollywood Finals Cups Look At Me Cup Finals

Author:Vinnie Jones

“You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.”

Knows Years Dream Rooms Wonderful Goes On Clothes Picks Hollywood Dressings Dressing Rooms Wonderful Places

Author:Larry Hagman

“I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn't want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don't answer.”

Knows Want Years Long Opportunity Answers Son Periods Hollywood Raises Right Thing My Son Take Time Time Off Turned Down Long Periods Of Time

Author:Arsenio Hall

“If women ran Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter would have a "Men in Entertainment" issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something.”

Ifs Men Writing Years Issues Hollywood Entertainment Ran Reporters Jerk

Author:Elizabeth Meriwether

“During the years when the barely educated immigrants were being replaced by barely educated native sons, Hollywood . . . proved a more reliable, cost-effective means of securing world domination than any nuclear arsenal or diplomatic démarche.”

World Years Mean Son Cost Hollywood Nuclear Educated Native Immigrants Replaced Domination Arsenal Diplomatic World Domination Native Son

Author:Frederic Raphael

“Ever since there's been a Hollywood, they remake a movie every 20 years.”

Years Hollywood Remakes

Author:Julianne Moore

“Today, we know that time travel need not be confined to myths, science fiction, Hollywood movies, or even speculation by theoretical physicists. Time travel is possible. For example, an object traveling at high speeds ages more slowly than a stationary object. This means that if you were to travel into outer space and return, moving close to light speed, you could travel thousands of years into the Earth's future.”

Source: Time: A Traveler's Guide

“It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in it. It's not really our crowning achievement as a civilisation. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but it just bores me.”

Years Done Stories Seems Achievement Hollywood Bores Civilisation Manson

Author:John Hawkes

“With Hollywood you're yesterday's news if you get a flop at the box office. So you might as well be braced to have something else to do that's interesting. Have something lined up to keep your stories fulfilled, and your ideas, because if you're just cranking out movies three times a year.”

Ifs Years Wells Ideas Stories Might Three Interesting Office News Hollywood Boxes Yesterday Fulfilled Three Times Box Office

Author:David Gordon Green

“When you go to the Hollywood world and you wade in the waters out there, you never know who you’re going to meet and what meetings you’re going to have at some point, somewhere that leads to something else. So you could see somebody years later that comes to fruition.”

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Author:Chris Jericho

“The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me - from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood. The clothes are on mannequins, also on hangers and in boxes with a photo of each piece, and there's a Web site where I can go to look through everything. It's too big - I could never sort through it myself! But these garments tell the stories of my life.”

“Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.”

Thinking Giving Should Years Mind Work Materials Hollywood Meetings Oscars

Author:William Goldman

“Dune was really my first Hollywood job. It was such a small part, but I opened the movie. I was about 19 years old and I had to make this speech, and I didn't understand most of the words because they were, you know, words from Dune.”

Knows Years Firsts Jobs Speech Hollywood Small Parts

Author:Virginia Madsen

“Mainstream Hollywood makes a few good movies a year. And in order to be in one of those, you have to be one of five people. Hollywood makes many bad movies too, which I'm not interested in being a part of. But there are only a few good independent movies a year, and many, many bad ones. I want to be in good movies, and I want people to see them.”

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Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“I think Hollywood has always, you know, there's always been glamour associated to it. And especially in the last ten years there has been a growing sort of obsession with celebrity life and celebrity culture.”

Thinking Knows Years Has Beens Lasts Culture Growing Ten Hollywood Obsession Glamour Celebrity Culture Celebrity Life

Author:Debra Messing

“I think Hollywood has gone in a disastrous path. It's terrible. The years of cinema that were great were the '30s, '40s, not so much the '50s...but then the foreign films took over and it was a great age of cinema as American directors were influenced by them and that fueled the '50s and '60s and '70s.”

Thinking Years Age Film Gone Path Terrible Directors Hollywood Cinema

Author:Woody Allen

“Whatever happens in Washington, Wall Street, Hollywood or Silicon Vally in the next ten years, it will be irrelevant if our families don't come together at a much higher level. Without a renaissance of family, no new candidate can rise to save us. No new legislation, policy or program will heal our land.”

“Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.”

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Author:Vince Gilligan

“The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.”

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Author:Stephen Gaghan

“I can tell you as a fact that if you'd asked anyone in Hollywood one year before 'Pirates of the Caribbean' had come out, they'd have told you the pirate movie was a dead genre. And it's not that it's a dead genre. If you make a bad pirate movie, no one will want to see it. If you make a good one, everyone will want to see it.”

Ifs Want Years I Can Facts Hollywood Genre Pirate Caribbean

Author:Dean Devlin

“My first memoir, 'Home,' was about my childhood, early training and formative years in the Theater, i am so pleased that my good friends at the Hachette Book Group have encouraged me to share the next phase of my life, beginning with my arrival in Hollywood and the wonderful movies and television programs I was asked to be a part of.”

Life Years Firsts Book Home Next Wonderful Groups Share Childhood Television Training Program Hollywood Theater Memoir Phases Good Friend Arrivals Formative Years

Author:Julie Andrews

“To be embraced by Hollywood when I'd been acting professionally for almost 50 years seemed unbelievable. I've been so welcomed in such a warm, generous way - it seemed crazy not to take advantage of it. I hope for another 20 years where I can still keep going.”

Way Years Stills I Can Acting Crazy Advantage Hollywood Warm Generous Keep Going Unbelievable

Author:Jacki Weaver

“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.”

“I met Jon Lovett, who was just coming off of three years of being a presidential speech writer and had just arrived here to be a comedy writer in Hollywood. I thought he was super green, in terms of this world, but he knows so much about the world that we're attempting to write about.”

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Author:Josh Gad

“I've always been kind of picky because I've always been interested in lots of different things. I chose to take three years off and go to school, and that helped keep me sane. Hollywood can make you crazy, if all you're thinking about is your next job.”

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Author:Jordana Brewster

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