Hollywood Quotes
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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.
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
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)
I carry Keaton's photo around with me to remind me what happened to him. If the Hollywood system can destroy him it can destroy me.
marty feldman— Marty Feldman - Six Degrees of Separation, BBC4.
The world has certain rules — Hollywood has certain rules — but it doesn't mean you have to play by them, and I don't, or I'd be a miserable person.
sherilyn fenn— Sherilyn Fenn, quoted in "Fenn Fatale", by Mike Bygrave. Sky Magazine (UK). July 1992. p.6-10.
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]
We’re making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but I consider the profession about the most debased and debasing I know.
robert e. howard— From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith (week of February 20, 1928)
Typical Hollywood crowd - all the kids are on drugs, and all the adults are on roller skates.
eric idle— Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
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
Hollywood dishes out too much praise for small things I won't let it get me, but too much praise can turn a fellow's head if he doesn't watch his step.
james (jimmy) stewart— As quoted in "Hollywood legend Jimmy Stewart dead at 89" at CNN (2 July 1997)
You'll never learn to act in Hollywood. Not in a thousand years.
margaret sullavan— Lawrence J. Quirk, Child of Fate - Margaret Sullavan, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1986, ISBN 0312514425, p. 77.
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)
Hollywood is a place where some people lie on the beach and look up at the stars, whereas other people lie on the stars and look down at the beach.
noël coward— Interview with Walter Harris in 1960 reported in The Times (26 May 2009)
I know that the real Brockovich liked to dress provocatively; that's her personal style and she's welcome to it. But the Hollywood version makes her look like a miniskirted hooker, with bras that peek cheerfully above her necklines.
roger ebert— Review of Erin Brockovich (17 March 2000)
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
There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.
ben stiller— Reported in Inside Oscar 2 (2002) by Damien Bona
[A]t the beginning of November 2001, there was a series of meetings between White House advisers and senior Hollywood executives with the aim of co-ordinating the war effort and establishing how Hollywood could help in the "war against terrorism" by getting the right ideological message across not only to Americans, but also to the Hollywood public around the globe the ultimate empirical proof that Hollywood does in fact function as an "ideological state apparatus."
slavoj Žižek— Welcome to the Desert of the Real!: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates (London: Verso, 2002, ISBN 1-859-84421-9), p. 16
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.
