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Bette Davis Quote: 'Hollywood always wanted me to be ...'

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I always wanted to do a Hollywood story. The thing about actors, though, is that they go through a streak of roles.
Tom Folsom
Tags: About Always Go
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Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.


Crispin Glover
Tags: Always Thing Film
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Hollywood has always been good to me. I've never blamed Hollywood for my problems.


Willie Aames
Tags: Good Me Always
I learned how to play football and I got pretty good at it. I enjoyed being on a team with other girls. In Hollywood, girls are always competing against one another, so it was nice to be on a team with other girls for a change.
Nikki Ziering
I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
Gary Oldman
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As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'


Maggie Siff
Tags: Me Always Actor
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I've always been a fighter and I've always fought through things my whole life.


Serena Williams
Tags: Always Life Been
Liverpool was an industrial town, a poor town. The people fought hard for what they wanted to achieve and there was a hunger there, and that hunger has remained with the musicians.
Pete Best
After my 1985 appearance on 'The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,' I was wooed by producers in Hollywood, who told me they wanted to turn my act into a sitcom.
Roseanne Barr
Tags: Me Who Wanted
I talk to all the creative directors today, and they take me aside, and they say, 'You know, it must have been great back in those days when you could do anything you wanted.' I say, 'Huh? Excuse me?' I mean, we fought. In the '60s and '70s, you fought wars with clients, and you have to continue fighting wars to do great work.
George Lois
Tags: Work Great You
I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
Kara Lindsay
For me, I was literally trying to stay afloat. I never actually thought I would get my own sketch show. So the idea that one day I would have my own show is pretty wild. But once I got it, I thought, 'Yeah, this is exactly what I always wanted to do.'
Nick Kroll
Tags: Me Get Always
I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.
Harry Belafonte
Tags: Always Been Even
I rode all around Hollywood listening to Donna Summer, looking out the window - all by myself - just going, 'I'm number one!' It's a pretty extraordinary feeling.
Jimmy Webb
Tags: Just Out Going
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We need realism to deal with reality.


Slick Rick
Tags: Need Deal Reality
I did grow up in Los Angeles. I actually didn't start acting until I was sixteen, so I was very removed from the Hollywood scene. I had always been in my school plays, but my mom and dad wanted to keep me out of the business until I was old enough to know who I was and not let anyone change me.
Halston Sage
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I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me.


Mike Trout
Tags: Me Always Life
I never wanted to return to Hollywood because Hollywood people and the fakeness - very artificial and not dear to my heart. After I lived in the Midwest, and I learned what sincere, real people were all about, I never wanted to go back.
Karolyn Grimes
From the moment I got to Hollywood, I've always felt like I never really got to do what I wanted to do. In general, artists feel that you're never really allowed to accomplish what you would like to accomplish because there's just so much of this system that gets in the way; the business gets in the way of the art.
Martin Kove
Tags: Business You Like
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Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.


John Huston