Hollywood quotes

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
  Letter to Charles  W Morton,12 Dec.

I'm not very keen on Hollywood. I'd rather have a nice cup of cocoa really.

- Sir Noe«  l Peirce Coward
Attributed.

Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it.Wants steadyemployment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.

- Bette originally Ruth Elizabeth Davis Davis
  Advertisement placed in the Hollywood trade papers.

Inside this Hollywood playboy is a someway decent actor waiting for a chance to prove it. But, since Hollywood will never give me that chance, I drink to

- Dario Fo
controversial plays  and revues  deal with political  themes.  His plays   include  Accidental   Death   of   an   Anarchist   (1970)   and Trumpets  and  Raspberries  (1984).  He  was  awarded  the  Nobel prize for literature in1997.

Daniel Day Lewis has what every actor in Hollywood wants: talent. And what everyactor in England wants: looks.

- Andre   Paul Guillaume Gide
  In The Independent,13 May.

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired byan American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

- Katharine Hepburn
  In the Journal  American, 22 Feb.

   Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.

- Erica ne  e Mann Jong
  How To SaveYour Own Life.

We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkholeofdepraved venality. And,ofcourse, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of AestheticTruth.

- David Alan Mamet
  Writing in Restaurants,'A Playwright in Hollywood'.

Hooray for Hollywood.

-Johnny Mercer
   Title of song which first appeared in the film Hollywood Hotel, performed by Johnny Davis and Frances Langford.

   God isregistered tovote for Hollywood as a Republican. However,Jesus Christ is a Democrat from Santa Monica.

-Wall StreetJournal
  'God Lives in Hollywood', editorial on California's voter registration lists,12 Jul.