"I was a Hollywood musical fan as a kid, and I know how rare it is for someone who originates the Broadway role to get to then do it on screen."
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"I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent."
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"I hated the place (Hollywood), not the work, but the lack of privacy, those terrible prying fan magazine writers and all the surrounding exploitation."
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"I'm not comfortable with getting a job by being at the right Hollywood party; I'm not a terribly sociable creature."
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"I'm a producer... I am a Hollywood producer. That is so weird. And it's not lame. But it's just like, how did that happen?"
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"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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"Women are the last group anyone cares about in Hollywood."
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"Hollywood would much prefer the author be dead, so that they can buy the book and do what they want to do with it."
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"Hollywood was never great for children."
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"I remember saying to my agent, "Listen, everybody's going out to Hollywood and making movies. I think I ought to go out there." And his advice to me was, "I wouldn't do that if I were you. If they want you in Hollywood, they'll send you." And sure enough, they did."
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"I would never complain that Hollywood is racist when I'm one of the people touted as a welcome entity there."
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"You can get pigeonholed in Hollywood and people think of you in a certain way."
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"I've been trying to bust into the comedy business my whole life. It's hard in Hollywood to do different things. I know this. It's a struggle."
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