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
Strip the phony tinsel off Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
OSCAR LEVANT
Inquisition in Eden
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
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
Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls.
JULIA PHILLIPS
London Times, Apr. 3, 1991
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
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
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
Hollywood's a great place to live ... if you're a grapefruit.
ROD SERLING
Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Player is not a truthful indictment of Hollywood. It's much uglier than I portrayed it, but nobody would've been interested if I'd shown just how sadistic, cruel and self-orientated it is.
ROBERT ALTMAN
interview, Total Film: The Modern Guide to Movies, Mar. 15, 2004