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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“In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.”
“America is built for success.”
“Disneyland restaged by Dante.”
“Wherever you go in the world, you just have to say you're Canadian and people laugh.”
“It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.”
“Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle.”
“There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might.”
“I did live in California. I called it the Hollywood syndrome, make it, lose it, forget it -- I'm back home!”
“I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.”
“The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent.”
“Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.”
“There is certainly a higher percentage of wit in British comedy than in American comedy.”
“I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.”
“It's a cliche, but Americans are puritanical. In their movies, they are scared of sex, but they overindulge in violence.”
“In a way, watching the French do anything is a little more fun because their gestures are different. And in that way, they make everything interesting.”
“Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all.”
“Sometimes God makes better choices for us than we could have ever made for ourselves.”
“God uses people to help others. I only pray my faith is strong enough to get me through what I have to face.”
“Everything moves a little quicker in Los Angeles.”
“No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.”
“American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.”
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“We don't have paparazzi following you in Sweden.”
“What's interesting about the U.K. is that it celebrates an alternative voice. It's up for telling new stories.”
“If I had stayed in Hollywood, I would have killed myself. Or someone would have done it for me.”
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