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Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.

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.

At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know.

I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.

In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.

There's a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you're an actor you're somehow not a member of the crew. You're somehow more special. I hate that.

Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.

In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests.

I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.

I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow.

Because someone stole Gregory Peck's star on Hollywood Blvd., I have hired a Brink's guard to protect my star!

The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set.

Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems.

Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.