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Hollywood Quote by Ben Hecht

“In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.” quote by Ben Hecht — Download Open image

“In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.”

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People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.

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Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening…

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Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

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I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for…

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Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and…

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There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.

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The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.

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Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or respect for what…

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“was asked, ‘Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?’ I replied, ‘No.’ . . . The old ones will pass. They will bear…

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“I noticed early that pompous people have actually less a high opinion of themselves than a desire to create such an opinion in others.”

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Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That's New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and…

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Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described,…

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I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to…

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Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too.…

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Hollywood is so fixated on keeping it that way because it's generating the buzz, but that representation isn't right. I definitely feel like it's…

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In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...…

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“Artist Matthew Barney has made a film about “shit”. It is hardly original. Hollywood has made shit films for decades.”

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If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to…

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In a lot of movies, African-Americans are either maids or slaves, but that's not all they were. We need to show that. And we…

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“I'm always looking for evidence to support my conjecture that celebrity in Hollywood is sort of like a Joel Peter Witkin photograph: It looks…

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I came to Hollywood to be a movie song-and-dance man just at the time those films were going out of style.

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Writing is the life blood of everything in Hollywood. Without writers, there are no scripts, no acting work.

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Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley…

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