15 Movie Quotes about Hollywood
From the movie: Stan & Ollie
“- Ida Kitaeva Laurel: I may live in Hollywood, but I am not Hollywood.
- Lucille Hardy: Ida, you are the epitome of Hollywood.”
Nina Arianda - Ida Kitaeva Laurel
Shirley Henderson - Lucille Hardy
From the movie: The Black Dahlia
“Hollywood will fuck you when no-one else will.”
Mike Starr - Det. Russ Millard
From the movie: The Cat's Meow
“Only in a place like this do reporters and autograph hounds have absolutely no scruples about stampeding mourners at a funeral. Welcome to Hollywood, a land just off the coast of planet Earth.”
Joanna Lumley - Elinor Glyn
From the movie: Crimes and Misdemeanors
“If you want a happy ending, you should go see a Hollywood movie.”
Martin Landau - Judah Rosenthal
From the movie: The Glitter Dome
“I hang out in this bar with all the other Hollywood cops. Okay, so the Glitter Dome isn't a bar; it's a pig pen. And Hollywood isn't a city; it's a land filled with broken dreams. Nothing is what it seems.”
James Garner - Sgt. Aloysius 'Al' Mackey
From the movie: Memories of Me
“Extras are the real Hollywood. You won't see their names above the title or below the title. We like to think of ourselves as behind the title.”
Alan King - Abe
From the movie: Chicken Little
“- Buck Cluck: I'd like to see the movie they make about you now.
- Chicken Little: I just hope they stay true to what really happened?
- Buck Cluck: Oh, son. These people are from Hollywood. The one thing they will never do is mess with a good story.”
Garry Marshall - Buck Cluck
Zach Braff - Chicken Little
From the movie: The Last Shot
“- Joe Devine: Can you help me find a script?
- Fanny Nash: This is Hollywood. Just go outside and ask anyone you see to give you a script. A gardener, a cripple, a child molester. They've all got 'em.”
Alec Baldwin - Joe Devine
Joan Cusack - Fanny Nash
From the movie: The First Wives Club
“There are only three ages for women in Hollywood - Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.”
Goldie Hawn - Elise Elliot Atchison
From the movie: White Hunter Black Heart
“People say Hollywood when they want to insult you. Well, really Hollywood is just a place where they make a profit. It's a factory town like Detroit or Birmingham or Schaffhausen. Because the cheap element of the town has been so overly advertised it becomes an insult to remind a man he's from there.”
Clint Eastwood - John Wilson
From the movie: The Muse
“This is Hollywood. People here believe anything!”
Concetta Tomei - Nurse Rennert
From the movie: The Muppet Movie
“- The Great Gonzo: You'll think it's stupid.
- Fozzie Bear: No we won't, tell us, tell us!
- The Great Gonzo: I want to go to Bombay, India and become a movie star.
- Fozzie Bear: You don't go to Bombay to become a movie star! You go where we're going: Hollywood.”
talking about Gonzo's dream
Dave Goelz - The Great Gonzo
Frank Oz - Fozzie Bear
From the movie: Pretty Woman
“Welcome to Hollywood! What's your dream? Everybody comes here; this is Hollywood, land of dreams. Some dreams come true, some don't; but keep on dreamin', this is Hollywood.”
Abdul Salaam El Razzac - Happy Man
From the movie: How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
“Hollywood doesn't want writers, so much as secretaries with a flare for dialogue. If you want to be happy in Hollywood, be a cinematographer. Nobody knows what you're doing, so they can't screw with you.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Peter McGowan
From the movie: Eating Raoul
“Hollywood, California. Home to the rich and powerful. Yet so popular with the broken and destitute. Here sex hunger is reflected in every aspect of daily life, and instant gratification is tirelessly pursued. A center of casual violence and capricious harassment. Where rampant vice and amorality permeate every strata of society... It is a known fact that prolonged exposure to just such a psychopathic environment will eventually warp even the most normal and decent among us.”
