Quotes about hollywood

"I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday."

Algren, Nelson on hollywood   

"An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer."

Allen, Fred A. on hollywood   

"Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars."

Allen, Fred A. on hollywood   

"In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows."

Allen, Woody on hollywood
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"The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard."

Baudrillard, Jean on hollywood   

"If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple."

Bertolucci, Bernardo on hollywood   

"The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money."

Brando, Marlon on hollywood   

"Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully."

Burchill, Julie on hollywood   

"To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony."

Burke, Billie on hollywood   

"If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it."

Burns, George on hollywood   

"Hollywood's a very weird place. I think there's less of everything except for attitude."

Cain, Dean on hollywood   

"If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come."

Chandler, Raymond on hollywood   

"Its idea of production value is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer would throw away. Its vision of the rewarding movie is a vehicle for some glamour-puss with two expressions and eighteen changes of costume, or for some male idol of the muddled millions with a permanent hangover, six worn-out acting tricks, the build of a lifeguard, and the mentality of a chicken-strangler."

Chandler, Raymond on hollywood   

"Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur."

Chandler, Raymond on hollywood   

"That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his praise comes to him in the form of a salary check. In Hollywood the average writer is not young, not honest, not brave, and a bit overdressed. But he is darn good company, which book writers as a rule are not. He is better than what he writes. Most book writers are not as good."

Chandler, Raymond on hollywood   

"They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them."

Chandler, Raymond on hollywood   

"The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom."

Chandler, Raymond on hollywood   

"The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant drinking, the incessant squabbling over money, the all-pervasive agent, the strutting of the big shots (and their usually utter incompetence to achieve anything they start out to do), the constant fear of losing all this fairy gold and being the nothing they have never ceased to be, the snide tricks, the whole damn mess is out of this world."

Chandler, Raymond on hollywood   

"There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexual energy, an inability to devote more than token attention to the preoccupations of the society outside. The action is everything, more consuming than sex, more immediate than politics; more important always than the acquisition of money, which is never, for the gambler, the true point of the exercise."

Didion, Joan on hollywood   

"Studio executives are intelligent, brutally overworked men and women who share one thing in common with baseball managers: they wake up every morning of the world with the knowledge that sooner or later they're going to get fired."

Goldman, William on hollywood   

"I hate a man who always says yes to me. When I say no I like a man who also says no."

Goldwyn, Samuel on hollywood   

"In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym for bankruptcy. The movie Owners are the only troupe in the history of entertainment that has never been seduced by the adventure of the entertainment world."

Hecht, Ben on hollywood   

"Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle."

Hecht, Ben on hollywood   

"You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer."

Hemingway, Ernest on hollywood   

"The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend."

Hepburn, Katharine on hollywood
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"Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams."

Huston, John on hollywood   

"Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God."

Jong, Erica on hollywood   

"There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin."

Kipling, Rudyard on hollywood   

"Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading dead zone of exhaustion, inertia, and brilliant decay."

Kroker, Arthur on hollywood   

"Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained orgy farm, its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can find."

Lake, Veronica on hollywood   

"Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you will find the real tinsel underneath."

Levant, Oscar on hollywood   

"If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on."

Loos, Anita on hollywood   

"We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive."

Mamet, David on hollywood   

"Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents."

Monroe, Marilyn on hollywood   

"Hollywood has gone from Pola to Polaroid."

Negri, Pola on hollywood   

"I devoutly believe it is the writer who has matured the film medium more than anyone else in Hollywood. Even when he knew nothing about his work, he brought at least knowledge of life and a more grown-up mind, a maturer feeling about the human being."

Nichols, Dudley on hollywood   

"Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are."

Parker, Dorothy on hollywood   

"I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. Out there, I called it."

Parker, Dorothy on hollywood   

"Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls."

Phillips, Julia on hollywood   

"In Hollywood if you don't have happiness you send out for it."

Reed, Rex on hollywood