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Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstor...

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...as if Hollywood were the name of the enchanted forest where you loose yourself and find yourself,...

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If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and f...

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Over the years, I have been subjected to many indignities, all for the sake of Art. If I ever catch ...

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Bob HopeThe Road to Hollywood: My 40-Year Love Affair with the Movies

It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern d...

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How are his poems?""He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.

How do we know where we're going? Follow the moon! Remember, the moon is always over Hollywood, and ...

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There's a big luscious peach of a dream in L.A. The peach has been repeatedly exposed as overripe an...

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Cintra WilsonA Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined as Grotesque Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations

Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and y...

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Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.

It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housew...

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I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production,...

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I won`t buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.

We have reached a censorship barrier in Infidelity, to our infinite disappointment. It won’t be Joan...

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In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.

It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.

Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave.

I haven't been to a movie for three months of Sundays. I gather from what Carolyn reports that Holly...

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I was never that into the movies. Never. Even as a youngster. I became interested in movie music onl...

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In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers hav...

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I had a kind of romantic notion about being a Hollywood Errol Flynn type.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your so...

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The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

The most interesting of the classic movie genres to me are the indigenous ones: the Western, which w...

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Martin ScorseseA Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.

He has the memory of a convict, the balls of a fireman, and the eyesight of a housebreaker. When the...

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There's a thing that happens in Hollywood, when you hand in a script with magic in it, and the peopl...

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While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, ...

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Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

The Hollywooden heads would buy a car for almost any purpose except a worthy one. Many automobiles w...

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P. J. O'RourkeDriving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-bending

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communicatio...

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're runn...

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If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Ho...

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If California is a state of mind, Hollywood is where you take its temperature. There is a peculiar s...

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Ross MacdonaldArcher in Hollywood: The Moving Target

What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongsid...

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When you make a film, if you are an insider, you're usually the last person to know that your film i...

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I could not take one more minute of trying to convince the people of Los Angeles that a workers’ rev...

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There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage a...

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Yes, movies! Look at them — All of those glamorous people — having adventures — hogging it all, gobb...

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