Hollywood Quotes

Most popular Hollywood quotes

Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it just in time. - Wilson Mizner quote.
Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it just in time.
Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form. - Richard Corliss quote.
Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.

critics

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 quote.
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.
Hollywood-an emotional Detroit. - Lillian Gish quote.
Hollywood-an emotional Detroit.
Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks. - Alistair Cooke quote.
Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

critics

Hollywood is the only place where you can die of encouragement. - Pauline Kael quote.
Hollywood is the only place where you can die of encouragement.

encouragement

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood...because everybody does the fake closeness so well. - Carrie Fisher quote.
You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood...because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

intimacy

This is a town that doesn't just want you to fail, it wants you to die.
The propaganda arm of the American Dream machine, Hollywood.
Molly Haskell From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies
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. - Cedric Hardwicke quote.
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.
Cedric Hardwicke A Victorian in Orbit: The Irreverent Memoirs of Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Told to James Brough
Hollywood has always been a cage . . . a cage to catch our dreams. - John Huston quote.
Hollywood has always been a cage . . . a cage to catch our dreams.
Where is Hollywood located?  Chiefly between the ears.  In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God. - Erica Jong quote.
Where is Hollywood located?  Chiefly between the ears.  In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.
Every country gets the circus it deserves.  Spain gets bullfights.  Italy gets the Catholic Church.  America gets Hollywood. - Erica Jong quote.
Every country gets the circus it deserves.  Spain gets bullfights.  Italy gets the Catholic Church.  America gets Hollywood.
Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you will find the real tinsel underneath. - Oscar Levant quote.
Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you will find the real tinsel underneath.
A trip through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat. - Wilson Mizner quote.
A trip through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.
Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton. - Wilson Mizner quote.
Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.

proverbs

Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul.
Hollywood is high school with money. - Martin Mull quote.
Hollywood is high school with money.
Hollywood is a mirage factory. - Anaïs Nin quote.
Hollywood is a mirage factory.
A dreary industrial town controlled by hoodlums of enormous wealth, the ethical sense of a pack of jackals, and taste so degraded that it befouled everything it touched.
Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soap companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation. - Orson Welles quote.
Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soap companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies—because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

forgiveness