Hollywood and The Other Hollywood
Actors' quotes about Hollywood and the International Cinema
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This section contains quotes about America and all the other nations where cinema has a patriotic value. For Hollywood movies stars, being a filmmaker is the maximum expression of talent, success and fame that can be achieved. Anyway, many actors arrive in California but immediately turn on their heels and return to where they came from. Others - those who were born and raised in the shadow of the Hollywood Sign - can't wait to leave this place, because they know there are other ways and other countries where they could be filmmakers, like France and Italy.
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“If I had stayed in Hollywood, I would have killed myself. Or someone would have done it for me.”
“I think that no actor should take Hollywood too seriously; but at the same time it would be wrong to underestimate its professionalism.”
“Hollywood is a caricature of itself, and in particular this is true of the front-office types at the studios. Their enthusiasm towards you is measured precisely to match the success of your last film.”
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“I decided to become a genius. Hollywood was full of 'yes-men', so I decided to become a 'no-man'.”
“I didn't write the Bible and I didn't invent sin.”
“A cultural boneyard.”
“Hollywood has always been a cage, a cage to catch our dreams.”
“Hollywood's like Egypt. Full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio props across the sand.
”“It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just an empty fagade with no rooms inside.
”“Hollywood might have become the centre of a new human expression if it hadn't been grabbed by a little group of book-keepers.”
“The people are unreal. The flowers are unreal, they don't smell. The fruit is unreal, it doesn't taste of anything. The whole place is a glaring, gaudy, nightmarish set, built up in the desert.
”“Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?”
“The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.”
“The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.”
“Simplicity, where the game of Hollywood doesn't exist.”
“I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it.”
“English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.”
“I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.”
“Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum.”
“The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.”
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