You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer’s heart. Fred Allen
Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out years ago. W. C. Fields
In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel. Ben Hecht
The only ism Hollywood believes in is plagiarism. Dorothy Parker
Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. Marilyn Monroe.
Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors. Walter Winchell
I can’t talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it’s a horror to look back on. I can’t imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn’t even refer to the place by name. ‘Out there’, I called it. Dorothy Parker
Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder. William Faulkner
The only reason I’m in Hollywood is that I don’t have the moral courage to refuse the money. Marlon Brando
I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday. Nelson Algren
We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive. David Mamet
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. Rita Rudner
In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it’s passed around the world so quickly. Catherine Zeta Jones
Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood. Billy Wilder
In Hollywood now when people die they don’t say ‘Did he leave a will?’, but ‘Did he leave a diary?’ Liza Minelli
Hollywood is bounded on the north, south, east and west by agents. William Fadiman
Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool. Liv Ullmann
I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent. Cedric Hardwicke
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation. Walter Winchell
Strip away the phoney tinsel of Hollywood and you’ll find the real tinsel underneath. Oscar Levant
Goodbye Mr. Zanuck: it certainly has been a pleasure working at 16th Century Fox. Jean Renoir
I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road. Kim Basinger
How did I get to Hollywood? By train. John Ford