Quotes about Hollywood

“Hollywood has gone from Pola to Polaroid.”

“You don't resign from these jobs, you escape from them.”

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

“Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.”

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

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

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

“If you have a vagina and an attitude in this town, then that's a lethal combination.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“It feels like a barbell. [When asked what she thought of her newly acquired Oscar statuette]”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands.”

“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.”