Relationships in Hollywood
Actors' quotes about relationships and social life
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This section collects actors and directors' quotes about relationship and friendship. How hard is it to build and preserve social relations in Hollywood? The main themes of this section are honesty, hypocrisy, friendship, hostility and bonding. On set, it is important to make friends, but sometimes is right in front of the cameras that actors start disliking each other. Here, celebrities share their experiences through their best quotes on social relations.
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“The biggest reason a celebrity loses his old friends is that unless they become celebrities too, they can't compete with you, spending-wise. Even the few who wish to try.”
“There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.”
“It's just as important to see which parties you don't get invited to. It's like a court, but not King Arthur's — more like Richar III's.”
“Tea at the Four Seasons Hotel poolside with Kevin Kline and a very pregnant Phoebe Cates, delineating which actors we have worked with are definitely certifiable or psychotic and reach a common consensus on a couple. I have only been here forty-eight hours and can already hear names being dropped and diarized as I plunge Alice-like, down, down,...” (continue)(continue reading)
“When things are going well in Hollywood, it's absolutely delightful, if you like sycophancy.”
“Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.”
“In a real relationship, you take two steps forward, one step back. ”
“What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.”
“I guess I've always been attracted to people who stand out as individuals - people who are adventurous and take chances.”
“When you walk with someone, something unspoken happens. Either you match their pace or they match yours.”
“It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted.”
“When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.”
“Don't trust anyone over 30.”
“The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness.”
“The reason the all-American boy prefers beauty over brains is that the all-American boy can see better than he can think.”
“We never see ourselves as others see us.”
“I tend to sit around with my friends a lot and rant and rave about things I think are ridiculous in the world, and I tend to make fun of myself a lot.”
“I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.”
- Also found in Life and Death in Hollywood
“We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly and angrily.”
“Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.”
“I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.”
“I think people need somebody to wake up their mental processes.”
“All men are alike. The approach is different; the result is always the same.”
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