quotations about Hollywood
It's an abominable place. If there was an Old Testamental God, he would do his job and wipe the place out. The only bad thing is that some really good restaurants would go up as well.
TERRY GILLIAM
"Terry Gilliam's Feel-Good Endings", New York Times, August 14, 2005
In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.
MARILYN MONROE
My Story
Hollywood is more of an idea than a place.
KEVIN BACON
"What I've Learned", Esquire, March 2014
Hollywood isn't your cesspool, America. It's your mirror.
BILL MAHER
Real Time with Bill Maher, Feb. 25, 2005
Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.
MARLON BRANDO
attributed, Pete Martin calls on ...
Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.
CANDICE BERGEN
attributed, Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women
There's only five real people in Hollywood. Everyone else is Mel Blanc.
JACK BENNY
The Jack Benny Program
Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
JULIE BURCHILL
Girls on Film
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars.
FRED ALLEN
Dick Enberg's Humorous Quotes for All Occasions
Hollywood is not only a geographical place on the map of the world, but an idea and frame of mind. There is something that happens in a Hollywood studio that evokes brilliance, serendipity, and nostalgia all at once. It's been a magic carpet ride for me, and I've been working in this town and all over the world for the last 17 years. No other place has as much talent and as many technicians dedicated to the entertainment industry as Hollywood. It is here that film, television, and radio studios thrive at the highest level of expertise.
TOMMY DANGCIL
introduction, Hollywood Studios
You're now heading toward Hollywood, like any normal tourist. Breathe in that smog and feel lucky that only in L.A. will you glimpse a green sun or a brown moon. Forget the propaganda you've heard about clean air; demand oxygen you can see in all its glorious discoloration.
JOHN WATERS
attributed, Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters
Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul.
MARILYN MONROE
My Story
The place is unreal. The people are unreal. The flowers are unreal--they don't smell. The fruit is unreal. Even the streets and buildings are unreal. I always expected to hear a carpenter shout "Strike" and the whole place come down like a stage set. That's what Hollywood is--a set, a glaring, gaudy, nightmarish set erected in the desert.
ETHEL BARRYMORE
Milwaukee Journal, March 15, 1942
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer’s heart.
FRED ALLEN
attributed, Popcorn in Paradise
Hollywood is a door leading to a thousand doors.
KENSINGTON ROTH
attributed, SlideShare, May 3, 2014
Hollywood will rot on the windmills of Eternity
Hollywood whose movies stick in the throat of God
ALLEN GINSBERG
Kaddish and Other Poems
My own experiences in dealing with "Hollywood" types is that most are pathological liars, ignorant in the ways of literature and art, lacking in common sense, and incredibly arrogant. They will make empty promises, waste a writer's time, screw in moronic ways with his material, and generally distract a writer from accomplishing anything worthwhile.
RICHARD LAYMON
"Richard Laymon: A Horror Writer with BITE", Mania, June 30, 2000
Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I've ever experienced. It's made more difficult by the fact that it's constantly changing. You never know what class you belong to unless you're one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.
ALAN ARKIN
Esquire, Mar. 2007
To create what it does, Hollywood has to draw young people, often of unstable temperament, from all over the world. It plunges them into exacting work--surrounds them with a sensuous life--and cuts them off from the normal sources of living.
MAX LERNER
America as a Civilization
In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquet and throw away the groom.
GROUCHO MARX
attributed, The Ultimate Book of Quotations