399 Quotes About Hollywood

Hollywood publicists, whom you're told you must have and who cost around $6000 per month, tell you what you should act like, look like, talk like — how you should respond to the press. They prey on fear and manipulate actors by threatening: 'Oh, the studio will be really upset with you if you don't do this.

Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue youi could get better somewhere else.

Old Bette Davis movies are all she watches now. There’s one where Bette Davis’s character goes blind, and as the credits rolled my mother said, ‘Must be what they mean when they talk about Bette Davis eyes.

No American films?’‘I don’t like comic strips.’‘Film noir?’‘Black is a very sentimental colour. You can hide any rubbish behind it. Hollywood flicks are fun, if your idea of a good time is a hamburger and a milk shake. America invented the movies so it would never need to grow up. We have angst, depression and middle-aged regret. They have Hollywood.

It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren't even young and beautiful now.

What does she do?""She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race.

Barbara La Marr was one of the first movie stars, she came toHollywood at fifteen,” she says, still scratching. “She was smart, bubbly, impatient, and it all got out of hand. When she died, they called her the girl who was too beautiful to live.”“So now I am doomed? Thanks for the pep talk. I needed that.

It must have been marvelous when the century was young and things impressed themselves in such blatant vivid brilliance that an approaching fire under a starry sky could illuminate, even to a Crimean actress, this sense of “place” – that there was nothing to be wanted from material things, nothing to be saved.

Lord, that Hollywood train, forever coming round the bend!