W. Somerset Maugham
Novelist, Playwright
"In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally."
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Maya Deren
Filmmaker, Choreographer
"I make my pictures for what Hollywood spends on lipstick."
Dennis Miller
Comedian
"Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch."
Bruce Campbell
Actor
"For a long time I was embarrassed to say I was a 'B' movie actor, ... But now that I see what Hollywood's putting out, I realized 'B' actually means 'better.'"
Marlon Brando
Actor, Director
"The Jews control Hollywood and use it to promote their own agenda."
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"Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world."
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"There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen."
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"There are no awards in Hollywood for being an idiot."
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"Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings."
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"Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?"
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"When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room and gave them popcorn. It was called 'Project Hollywood 2004' and it worked. I moved to L.A. in January of 2004."
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"I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing."
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"I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself."
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"One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career."
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"Doing a film with your friend is probably the best way to end that friendship but we worked together really well. We just have that thing. Chemistry is something that... I just think it is the last thing in Hollywood, the last magical thing they haven't computerised. There's nothing you can do about it - it's either there or it's not and it doesn't matter if you're friends or not. It was just a bonus that we were."
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"If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world."
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"Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing."
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"Hollywood's racist. Hollywood is sorority racist. It's like - we like you, Rhonda, but you're not a Kappa."
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"Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism."
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"Hollywood - that's a place where love is viewed both pragmatically and philosophically in the saying, 'Tis better to have loved and divorced than never to have had any publicity at all."
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"In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom."
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"This is hilarious. First, people say how so many actresses in Hollywood look anorexic, and now they are criticizing me for looking normal. Body images are too often adopted by young girls and women - thanks to what they are constantly being shown as being attractive."
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"Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood."
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"Superman and Robinhood are still alive in Hollywood."
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"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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