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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— 1945 Letter to Charles W Morton,12 Dec.
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)
Hooray for Hollywood.
johnny mercer— 1937 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.
— 1995 'God Lives in Hollywood', editorial on California's voter registration lists,12 Jul.
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)
Take My Picture, Hollywood! I Wanna Be a Star!
lady gaga— 52nd Grammy Awards
You can tell when a Hollywood historical film was made by looking at the eye makeup of their leading ladies, and you can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future.
neil gaiman— "Of Time, and Gully Foyle", Foreword to a 1999 edition of The Stars My Destination (1956)
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
Those individuals from the far left, and I'm talking about the Hollywood elitists and the United Nations and those individuals want us to believe it's because we are contributing CO2 to the atmosphere, that's causing global warming. It's all about money. I mean, what would happen to the Weather Channel's ratings if all the sudden people weren't scared anymore?
james inhofe— Fox & Friends, quoted in Rachel Sklar (2007-01-30). Fox Takes Fair And Balanced Look At Weather "War"...With One Side.
Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you will find the real tinsel underneath.
Oscar Levant— As quoted in Jewish Wit (1962) by Theodor Reik, p. 104, also in Inquisition in Eden (1965) and Whatever It Is, I’m Against It (1984) by Nat Shapiro
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
I often say after eight years in Washington, I longed for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
fred thompson— Associated Press (June 12, 2007). "Fred Thompson wants nation's top job". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved on 2007-06-13.
I had a soft spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth, and also because his wife gave the best head in Hollywood.
hunter s. thompson— Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness (2004)
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]
Implicit in the Hollywood formula of mom-by-option and dad-by-default is mom never at fault...to a fault.
warren farrell— p. 93. (Part IV: Where do we go from here)
Hiding up in the mountains Laying low in the canyons Goin' nowhere in the streets With the Spanish names Makin' love with the natives In their Hollywood places Making up for all the time gone by Los Angelenos All came from somewhere.
Billy Joel— Los Angelenos
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 is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
marilyn monroe— American actress and model (1926 - 1962)
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)
