Quotes About Hollywood

Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.

Ever since they found out that Lassie was a boy, the public has believed the worst about Hollywood.

Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.

Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.

It's a scientific fact. For every year a person lives in Hollywood, they lose two points of their IQ.

I look at going to Hollywood as going behind enemy lines. You parachute in, set up the explosion, then fly out before it goes off.

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

Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen.

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

Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.

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

Although Hollywood commonly portrays children in foster care as toddlers clutching teddy bears, nearly one-half are eleven or older. And about one-fifth—103,500—are sixteen or older.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.

In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.

Games are subject to far more scrutiny than network television or Hollywood films and often are condemned by people who do not play them.

That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.

I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.

People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.

I rode in my own backseat as we headed northwest toward Hollywood on the 101 freeway and then exited onto the dark, scabrous streets of the then still-a-little-funky, still-gentrifying neighborhood where we both lived because we were single and "creative" and this was where single, creative people lived if they wanted to surround themselves with—and potentially date and possibly marry—like-minded folk.

Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

I tell people, 'It's just like a cliche, but it's true: In Hollywood, dreams can come true.'

The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers' bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he drove north on the Hollywood Freeway to home. Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story.

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.