Hollywood quotes

“I find Hollywood really toxic.”
Rachel Weisz

“I'll never understand the animal, the machine of Hollywood business. And I don't want to understand it. It's like joining a club, a clique just because everyone else is in it. You don't have any particular interest in it, and it has nothing to do with who you are as a person. You just join it because it's the thing to do. The quality of life is...” (continue)(continue reading)
Johnny Depp

“When Kipling said 'Treat failure and success the same, they are both impostors', he could not have been living in Hollywood.”
Lily Tomlin

“I came out here with one suit and everybody said I looked like a bum. Twenty years later Marlon Brando came out with only a sweatshirt and the town drooled over him. That shows how much Hollywood has progressed.”
Humphrey Bogart

“I don't want the Beverly Hills circuit. I haven't got time for people who ask you how your grandchild is and don't listen to your answer.”
Jerry Lewis

“The most important deals in the movie industry are finalized on the sun-drenched turf of golf courses or around turquoise swimming pools, where the smell of barbecue sauce is borne on gentle breezes and wafts over the stereo system of houses that people seldom leave.”
Shirley MacLaine

“When things are going well in Hollywood, it's absolutely delightful, if you like sycophancy.”
Hugh Grant

“In Hollywood, a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.”
Marilyn Monroe

“Hollywood is like life: you face it with the sum total of your equipment.”
Joan Crawford

“I'm not very keen on Hollywood. I'd rather have a nice cup of cocoa really.”
Noel Pierce Coward

“If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is.”
Greta Garbo

“Take out all the homosexuals and there is no Hollywood.”
Liz Taylor

“I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.”
Kim Basinger

“It's appalling, but celebrities have no secret. My life in and 3,000 miles from Hollywood would have been considerably easier if I'd been homosexual inasmuch as my private relationships would then have remained private.”
Rex Harrison

“I know I'm capable of creating true art through my talent and natural artistry. But Hollywood only wants me to show off my bust.”
Jayne Mansfield

“Hollywood must be the only place on earth where you can get fired by someone wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap.
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Steve Martin

“The buildings looked so fake I was amazed to see that the facades had backs to them [. . .] It is a silly city.
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John Boorman

“In Hollywood, unknown actors wear sunglasses in the hope of being mistaken for knowns.”
Richard R. Grant

“Living in Hollywood is like wearing fibreglass underwear - interesting but painful.”
Robin Williams

“In Hollywood you can be forgotten while you're out of the room going to the toilet.”
Dustin Hoffman

“In Beverly Hills they don't throw their garbage away, they make it into television shows.”
Woody Allen

“In Hollywood, they'll forgive you if you're two-faced, but not if you're two-chinned.”
Colleen Dewhurst

“What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.”
Hattie McDaniel

“Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.”
Lionel Barrymore

“I saw Hollywood born and I've seen it die.”
Mary Pickford