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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— 1954 In the Journal American, 22 Feb.
God isregistered tovote for Hollywood as a Republican. However,Jesus Christ is a Democrat from Santa Monica.
— 1995 'God Lives in Hollywood', editorial on California's voter registration lists,12 Jul.
I hopped off the plane at LAX with a dream and my cardigan. Welcome to the land of fame excess - am I going to fit in? I jump into the cab, here I am for the first time, I look to the right and I see the Hollywood sign.
miley cyrus— Party in the USA, her second hit song
Like many works of literature , Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth , prestige , and power . But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production .
— Alex Tabarrok, in CEO Movie Villains (Quotes)
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.
All the sincerity in Hollywood you could stuff in a flea's navel and still have room left to conceal eight caraway seeds and an agent's heart.
fred allen— From a lost letter to Kenny Delmar quoted in Earl Wilson's syndicated column (May 1959)
Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.
michelangelo antonioni— Sunday Times [London] (20 June 1971)
If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.
lance armstrong— Phil Knight, Nike chief executive, as quoted in "Pain is temporary... quitting lasts forever" in The Telegraph (25 July 2004)
Throughout Jack's violin solo at the Hollywood Bowl, the audience was glued to their seats. That was the only way he could get them to sit down.
jack benny— Zubin Mehta in Irving Fein, Jack Benny: an Intimate Biography (1976), Volume 2, page 154.
Tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, hippie, tie-dyed liberals [in Hollywood should]… go make their movies and their music and whine somewhere else…. It's just too damn bad we didn't buy them a ticket [to become human shields in Iraq]."
jim gibbons— Fox News, March 04, 2005, [1]
[Steven Spielberg's films] are comforting, they always give you answers and I don't think they're very clever answers. ... The success of most Hollywood films these days is down to fact that they're comforting. They tie things up in nice little bows and give you answers, even if the answers are stupid, you go home and you don't have to think about it. … The great filmmakers make you go home and think about it.
terry gilliam— Interview to TCM comparing the work of Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick (2009)
People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.
terry gilliam— IMDB profile
"Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents."
jean-luc godard— ibid.
The worst disgrace that can befall a producer is an unkind notice from a New York reviewer. When this happens, the producer becomes a pariah in Hollywood. He is shunned by his friends, thrown into bankruptcy, and like a Japanese electing hara-kiri, he commits suttee.
s. j. perelman— "Strictly from Hunger", The Most of S. J. Perelman (1992) p. 47
I would rather live in a country where children are protected and their predators prosecuted, and even (which in Hollywood is evidently not always the same thing) disapproved of.
Roman Polanski— Christopher Hitchens, Save the Children: Thinking about Roman Polanski's vile child rape in a global context, Slate, Oct. 5, 2009
Little man stood at the Mayor's door,No one had ever seen him before,Dressed in clothes of a gayer moodThan ever are seen in Hollywood.
malvina reynolds— Song The Pied Piper
Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know... It's just good entertainment.
tom selleck— Interview with American Western Magazine (January 2001).
In a sometimes unreasonable business, Jack Valenti was a giant voice of reason. He was the greatest ambassador Hollywood has ever known and I will value his wisdom and friendship for all time.
jack valenti— Steven Spielberg, as quoted in
I’m still just reveling that someone from Hollywood made a speech like that. I hope you’re going to be able to find work after this. I really enjoyed that.
jon voight— Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky congratulating Voight on his June 2009 speech at a Republican fundraiser. [5]
Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
orson welles— Quoted in The Orson Welles Story
So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again. Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
Billy Joel— Say Goodbye to Hollywood
Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.
Billy Joel— New York State of Mind
For better or worse, we are the Court of Appeals for the Hollywood Circuit. Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights. But much of their livelihood - and much of the vibrancy of our culture - also depends on the existence of other intangible rights: The right to draw ideas from a rich and varied public domain, and the right to mock, for profit as well as fun, the cultural icons of our time.
alex kozinski— Discussing the right of publicity issue raised in the case White v. Samsung Elec. Am., Inc., 989 F.2d 1512 (9th Cir. 1993). [1]
Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn.
ilana mercer— "2 Movie Gems Amid a Lot of Hollywood Hooey," WorldNetDaily.com, July 6, 2007.
Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn.
— "2 Movie Gems Amid a Lot of Hollywood Hooey," WorldNetDaily.com, July 6, 2007.
Not only were the media bombarding us all the time with talk about the terrorist threat; this threat was also obviously libidinally invested just remember the series of movies from Escape from New York to Independence Day . That is the rationale of the often-mounted association of the attacks with Hollywood disaster movies: the unthinkable which happened was the object of fantasy, so that, in a way, America got what it fantasized about, and that was the biggest surprise.
— Slavoj Žižek (2002). Welcome to the Desert of the Real!: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates. London: Verso, p. 15. ISBN 1859844219.
There is no setup in Hollywood that compares with an Astaire picture.
— Irving Berlin to George Gershwin quoted in Jablonski, Edward, and Stewart, Lawrence D. The Gershwin Years. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1961, p.250. (M)
If people would only realize when they ask me why I don't do a picture with him - they ask me that all the time, and were quite keen on it while I was in Hollywood - if they'd only realize that he's gone 'way ahead of me. Why I couldn't begin to keep up with him. I couldn't even reach the steps he throws away.
— Adele Astaire op. cit. (Dance partners on Astaire)
