HOLLYWOOD QUOTES II

quotations about Hollywood

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

attributed, Great Hollywood Wit

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I think there is a predisposition among Christians that Hollywood is anti-Jesus or anti-Christianity. I was warned I'd have to fight to maintain the freedom to express my beliefs. It's an unfair stereotype, and so far that's been the farthest from the truth. While everyone I work with may not share my beliefs, I have been surrounded by nothing but support.

CLAY AIKEN

Today's Christian Magazine, Nov/Dec. 2005

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Strip the phony tinsel off Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

OSCAR LEVANT

Inquisition in Eden

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Hollywood is an American, or more accurately an international "dream factory" town, which alternately mixes the promise of quick wealth, gratification of the senses and escape from the mundane with ruthless savaging of individuals, moral decadence and cheap glamour. The social structure is a pyramid whose highly visible and publicized top layers are supported by masses of disappointed, embittered and equally corrupted slave laborers.

KIMBALL KING

Hollywood on Stage


Today, the only thing Hollywood swears by is space adventures because that's what goes over well. For my part, I trust my instinct and I make the films I believe in. If the public follows me, that's wonderful. If it doesn't follow, "c'est la vie."

CLINT EASTWOOD

Clint Eastwood: Interviews

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

JULIA PHILLIPS

London Times, Apr. 3, 1991

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I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how.

SUSAN HAYWARD

attributed, The Hollywood Book of Death


Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.

BILLY WILDER

attributed, Great Hollywood Wit

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In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an actor. I don't think there's a real person left in the place.

NEIL GAIMAN

Signal to Noise

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Hollywood is everywhere, and in its realization as a disembodied assortment of images and narratives, its presence is felt broadly across the entire globe.

ALLEN JOHN SCOTT

On Hollywood


Isn’t Hollywood a dump--in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

letter, Jul. 29, 1940

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Hollywood's a great place to live ... if you're a grapefruit.

ROD SERLING

Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval

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You know, the only place in America where the millionaires and billionaires are predominantly liberal is here in Hollywood.

BILL MAHER

"The Great Thing About Having Been Poor,", HuffPost, Mar. 1, 2012

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Hollywood flicks are fun, if your idea of a good time is a hamburger and a milk shake. America invented the movies so it would never need to grow up. We have angst, depression and middle-aged regret. They have Hollywood.

J. G. BALLARD

Millennium People

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Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue you could get better somewhere else.

RAYMOND CHANDLER

The Little Sister

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I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.

SIR CEDRIC HARDWICKE

A Victorian in Orbit

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Failure is regarded in Hollywood as practically a contagious disease; people will literally cross the road to avoid someone who is tainted with it.

BARRY NORMAN

The Film Greats

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Understand this: all the sleaze you've heard about Hollywood? All the illiterate scumbags who scuttle down the corridors of power? They are there, all right, and worse than you can imagine.

WILLIAM GOLDMAN

attributed, The Devil's Guide to Hollywood


I think Hollywood is in love with sequels. If it's successful once, just jazz it up and shoot it out there again. I think it's unfortunate.

PAUL NEWMAN

IGN interview, Jun. 9, 2006

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I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

ANDY WARHOL

The Mammoth Book of Zingers

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