Quotes of Hollywood - somelinesforyou

“ You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. ”

- Carrie Fisher

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

- Fred Allen

“ You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. ”

- Fred Allen

“ After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood. ”

- Fred Thompson

“ Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. ”

- Marilyn Monroe

“ Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel. ”

- Oscar Levant

“ In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. ”

- Rita Rudner

“ Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation. ”

- Walter Winchell

“ Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time. ”

- Wilson Mizner

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

- Dorothy Parker

“ 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. ”

- Raymond Chandler

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

- Rex Reed

“ 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. ”

- Arthur Kroker

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

- Oscar Levant

“ 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. ”

- Katharine Hepburn

“ In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel. ”

- Ben Hecht

“ It feels like a barbell. ”

- Marisa Tomei

“ Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation. ”

- Walter Winchell

“ In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. ”

- Rita Rudner

“ You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. ”

- Carrie Fisher

“ The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism. ”

- Dorothy Parker

“ Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton. ”

- Wilson Mizner

“ Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. ”

- Marilyn Monroe

“ Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel. ”

- Oscar Levant

“ After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood. ”

- Fred Thompson

“ I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts. ”

- Angelina Jolie

“ Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense. ”

- Ethan Coen

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

- Julie Burchill

“ 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. ”

- Veronica Lake

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

- John Huston
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