Quotes About Hollywood

It is popular now to say that Hollywood is a state of mind more than an actual place, since the Boulevard itself has become as tasteless and as subject to bad elements as that other den of American excess, Times Square

There is no doubt that to the ancients of circa 100 A.S., games implied bloodshed; but gladiators' hand-to-hand combats to the death featured in Hollywood movies are overdone, since gladiators were splendid physical specimens who took a long time to be selected and trained and were not easily dispensable.

At its worst, the woke cult of transgenders is a cross between voyeurism and morbidity, a fascination with the sexually bizarre, a politically correct version of snuff pornography. It's at the "intersectionality" of the lassitudinous culture of the Hamptons and the depraved sexual ennui of Hollywood.

His air of innocent questioning confused me. Either he really didn't know what he was saying, or he had a career waiting in Hollywood.

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

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

Strip away the phoney tinsel of Hollywood and you find the real tinsel underneath.

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

Grauman died of heart failure in the spring of 1950, died a bachelor, aged seventy-one, and the only people at his deathbed were his doctor, his secretary for the past twenty-one years, and the publicity chief of 20th Century—Fox. Long

You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.

La relación de la futura guerra de Texas con Hollywood fue siempre una relación amorosa. Sobre esta guerra se han filmado más películas y documentales que sobre cualquier otro hecho bélico de la futura leyenda estadounidense.

don't forget to look for that famous "Hollywood" sign. The 50-foot-high sign was placed atop Mt. Lee in the Hollywood Hills in 1923 as part of a promotion for a real estate development called Hollywoodland.

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

Only in the detached from reality world of goofy Hollywood and modern academia could a mass murderer like Che Guevara be turned into something of a cult celebrity.

When you know who you are, it's harder for people to fuck with you. Hollywood is dangerous because the great hobby they have in that town is fucking with other people. Building you up, knocking you down, until finally you are destroyed. They all want to create you and mold you.

I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.

In later months, Davies thought about the manifesto. There were gaps in it, bits that didn't make sense, and he wondered if David knew that and decided it didn't matter. Later still he realized what David had been doing: "He'd read about Elvis, and he'd read about Hollywood in the thirties and forties, and he was building a brand—before that language had even been invented.

Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.

I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood.

Okay. But, he didn't do anything to hurt people. OW: Well, he destroyed [Erich] von Stroheim, as a man and as an artist. Literally destroyed him. And von Stroheim at that moment was, I think, demonstrably the most gifted director in Hollywood. Von Stroheim was the greatest argument against the producer. He was so clearly a genius, and so clearly should have been left alone—no matter what crazy thing he did—

Hayworth, the former Margarita Carmen Cansino, was, of course, one of the brightest stars of the forties and early fifties, so much so that the crew of the Enola Gay is rumored to have used her pinup decal as "nose art" for either the bomber or its payload, Little Boy, before dropping it on Hiroshima. Welles

What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.