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When television captured the popular imagination of the 1950s, a rash of movies satirized Hollywood while also mythologizing it.
The Oscars are like a political campaign. You have to have the right candidates, and the people in Hollywood know what they are.
I was victimized by the old Hollywood typecasting thing. I had to really fight to get out of it, so I was uncomfortable with it.
Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
I never really liked Hollywood. I found it unreal - unreal and full of men and women whose lives were confused and full of pain.
I don't really know Hollywood, and I think that L.A. needs a bit of time to really know the city, because it's such a huge city.
I came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could.
There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare animal in a zoo.
It's easier to list Hollywood and TV people who don't have a radio show now, take less time to do that than to list those who do.
I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.
The primary job for women in Hollywood is still super-attractive actress. That is the most high-profile women's job in Hollywood.
I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.
Urban pop culture is its own phenomena that is for some reason is left out of Hollywood. It's the most mainstream thing there is.
This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.
I understand politicos gotta make bank. But cloistering with the Hollywood elite is not how you prove you're a man of the people.
As far as drug abuse and all that - listen, this is Hollywood. I don't know how I was able to avoid it, but I'm lucky that I did.
What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
Hollywood is the most superficial thing you could possibly be a part of and if I weren't attractive I wouldn't be working at all.
To the critics: You always complain that Hollywood never gives you new stuff, and then when you get it, you flip out. Lighten up.
I love watching old movies anyway - I grew up with my mom watching old movies and being immersed in the history of old Hollywood.
In 'Play Misty For Me', its inexplicably assertive knife-woman nearly manages the impossible task of slaughtering Clint Eastwood.
[Hollywood] is obviously so fake, but then comedy is this little carve-out of sincerity. I love it. I get to be funny and do this.
We're Hollywood, it's no big deal to see movie stars, TV stars, whatever. But if I go outside of LA, that's when people freak out.
Hollywood is the most superficial thing you could possibly be a part of and if I weren't attractive, I wouldn't be working at all.
I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.
I look at going to Hollywood as going behind enemy lines. You parachute in, set up the explosion, then fly out before it goes off.
If there was no Hollywood, no next movie, no deal at Warner Brothers, no place in Malibu or Venice, I would still be really happy.
On Hollywood turning its back on him: I wasn't in the club. You see, I'm not going to be a stroker. I never have been all my life.
Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.
I've made humanitarian causes and my children much more my priority than the Hollywood scene, being liked and getting movie parts.
If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.
Before I latched onto the concept of stereotypes, not once did I reckon with the fact that I would never be a 'Hollywood starlet.'
I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.
Most movies suck, even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you're a Hall of Famer.
I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.
In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.
Contemporary audiences, other than those making a deliberate historical leap, would find, say, the 1931 'Dracula' impossibly slow.
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.
You can't break through Hollywood formulaic points of view. I've tried, and I think I was more successful than anybody at doing it.
What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait
Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
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.
I would love to play Wonder Woman; I have the abilities and the strength because I am definitely not the typical Hollywood actress.
All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique - that's not working any more.
In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.
There's really no precedent for someone like me gaining clout in the space that I'm in - a black woman directing films in Hollywood.
You learn that Hollywood has its own rules, sometimes. And it's tricky, and sometimes you can't see what's coming around the corner.
I don't realize how rare it is to genuinely have sincere love for everyone you work with. Especially in Hollywood, but even in life.
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.
My husband and I don't want Hollywood drama. I go to the market and do the dishes. I'm not treated differently because I work on TV.