Hollywood quotes

“Nothing here is permanent. Once photographed, life here is ended.”

David O. Selznick

“It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just an empty fagade with no rooms inside.
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David O. Selznick

“Hollywood might have become the centre of a new human expression if it hadn't been grabbed by a little group of book-keepers.”
David O. Selznick

“The people are unreal. The flowers are unreal, they don't smell. The fruit is unreal, it doesn't taste of anything. The whole place is a glaring, gaudy, nightmarish set, built up in the desert.
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Ethel Barrymore

“A great lady. It’s quite an achievement to spend that long in Hollywood and not become a Hollywood product.”
David Niven On Audrey Hepburn

“Simplicity, where the game of Hollywood doesn't exist.”
Johnny Depp

“Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum.”
Sir Michael Caine

“One can live a simple life in Hollywood, despite reports to the contrary. You can be out in the open. You can ride horseback and even go swimming in the winter. New York has its decided advantages - plays, operas, art exhibits, auctions - and I would not want to stay away from it too long. But frankly, I would rather work in Hollywood.”
Rodolfo Valentino

“Because I'm a resident of England, Britannia taxes my Hollywood income as well. I bought a house at Regent's Park so I pay property taxes on that too. My agent gets 10 percent, incidentals account for another 10 percent and living expenses for 25 percent. So there's always a deficit. No wonder Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Leslie Howard don't...” (continue)(continue reading)
Merle Oberon

“Let's not limit it to Hollywood - it's this country of yours with such friendly people - they've brought me out. Losing my shyness has made me what is laughingly called 'blossom'. ”
Deborah Kerr

“I did not come to Hollywood in the first place because there were fame, riches, and glamour to be gained here. I came here because this is the place where pictures are made, many of them very excellent, and I felt that here was opportunity for the actress.”
Ingrid Bergman

“[Hollywood] is filled with people who make adventure pictures and who have never left this place... religious pictures and they haven't been in a church or synagogue for years... pictures about love and they have never been in love — ever.”
Richard Brooks

“People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.”
Terry Gilliam

“In Hollywood it's okay to be subtle, as long as you make it obvious.”
Alfred Hitchcock

“In Hollywood all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterward that causes the problems.”
Shelley Winters

“In Hollywood an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty per cent of publicity.”
Lauren Bacall

“You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.”
Lillian Gish On Lionel Barrymore

“They [the Hollywood studios] are into the flavor of the month, and that's the reality you have to live with as an actress. Nothing you can do about it.”
Lauren Bacall

“Sexpots age fast in Hollywood.”
Sharon Stone

“In Hollywood there are women who spend every afternoon shopping for wrinkle-free dresses to go with their wrinkle-free faces.”
Susan Sarandon

“I don't care for the movie racket much in England, but in Hollywood it is much worse.”
Noel Pierce Coward

“I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.”
Michael Douglas

“Nobody in Hollywood is innocent.”
Cary Grant

“Hollywood isn't anything like Hollywood.”
Will Smith

When I first arrived in Hollywood, I met a studio executive who said, "Loved your work, Joe". When I asked what he had seen me in, he said, "Nothing".
Joseph Fiennes