hollywood

1.

You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.

- Hemingway, Ernest

2.

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

- Fred Allen

3.

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

- Parker, Dorothy

4.

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

- Welles, Orson

5.

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

- Oscar Levant

6.

I devoutly believe it is the writer who has matured the film medium more than anyone else in Hollywood. Even when he knew nothing about his work, he brought at least knowledge of life and a more grown-up mind, a maturer feeling about the human being.

- Nichols, Dudley

7.

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

- Hecht, Ben

8.

Hollywood has gone from Pola to Polaroid.

- Negri, Pola

9.

Hollywood makes prostitutes out of women and sissies out of men.

10.

To say I accept in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.

- Orwell, George

11.

In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.

- Allen, Woody

12.

Its idea of production value is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer would throw away. Its vision of the rewarding movie is a vehicle for some glamour-puss with two expressions and eighteen changes of costume, or for some male idol of the muddled millions with a permanent hangover, six worn-out acting tricks, the build of a lifeguard, and the mentality of a chicken-strangler.

- Chandler, Raymond

13.

Studio executives are intelligent, brutally overworked men and women who share one thing in common with baseball managers: they wake up every morning of the world with the knowledge that sooner or later they're going to get fired.

- Goldman, William

14.

Hollywood's a very weird place. I think there's less of everything except for attitude.

- Cain, Dean

15.

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

- Rita Rudner

16.

Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.

- Hunter S. Thompson

17.

They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.

- Chandler, Raymond

18.

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

- Wilson Mizner

19.

There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.

- Kipling, Rudyard

20.

From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people.

- Louis Adamic