'So, you think you can just waltz right in here and start making movies, Mr, Astaire'
Starting In Hollywood T-Shirts
Celebrate Hollywood ambitions with our fun and motivational t-shirts. Perfect for filmmakers, actors, and dreamers taking their first steps in the industry.
"I'll do the movie but I want to be highly compensated and highly acclaimed."
Herman Mankiewicz
'How many studio apartment construction projects did you say you'd worked on before?'
"An actor, you say? Guess you caught the acting-like-a-waiter bug."
Why you've never heard of Ricky Rat.
The team video didn't spotlight my talents. I've hired my own film crew. They'll showcase my skills so college recruiters can see my strengths. Wow! How can the director pack so much into one little video? Great point! Daddy? Tell Steven Spielberg we're going feature length. Nice save!
"The script isn't funny, but maybe if we put some unfunny actors in it and get an unfunny director it will be funny."
"So, do you see yourself as a car valet who writes screenplays or a screen writer who parks cars?"
Danae's Celebrity Career: 'I don't know where to begin in deciding what I want to be when I grow up...I want people to shut and leave me alone, and I need lots of attention, so...'
"Whatcha watching, Dad?"
'Most of all, I'd like to thank god. . .'
Hollywood or bust!
"I'm thinking action roles might not really be your thing."
"Face it - in this town, either you're a star or you're just another brown dwarf."
Welcome to Hollywood
"He's left a suicide screenplay."
"Hear me out. Batman - again."
"California has always been too big for its britches."
Live the Dream!
'It's 'big office' meets 'poorly-received flop'!'
"I'm sorry. We don't want a ring-tailed lemur. We want a ring-tailed-lemur type."
Henry Fonda
"Well, Clive, what I REALLY want to do it wait on tables."
'Really? I was an extra in several John Wayne movies too...'
"Sure, if this was New York, I'd be your editor and you'd be the author - but this is L.A., so I'm your agent and you're the whatever."
"Wait a minute... You're not Warren Gurkenman the famous actor, but his stuntman?!"
Oscar Victory
Kim Novak caricature
"That's enough therapy. From here on out, I think I could do a hell of a lot more for both of us as your agent."
Charlie Chaplin
"Hallelujah, I'm a believer!"
Frank Sinatra
"I'm Kirk Douglas."
'We have the ideas for product placement and now all we need is the script.'
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