I look at going to Hollywood
as going behind enemy lines. You parachute in, set up the explosion, then
fly out before it goes off.
-- Robert Redford |
The execs don't care what
color you are. They care about how much money you make. Hollywood is not
really black or white. It's green.
-- Will Smith |
It's a scientific fact. For
every year a person lives in Hollywood, they lose two points of their IQ.
-- Truman Capote |
I thought 'Deep Throat' was a
movie about a giraffe.
-- Bob Hope |
In Hollywood a marriage is a
success if it outlasts milk.
-- Rita Rudner |
Hollywood is where they shoot
too many pictures and not enough actors.
-- Walter Winchell |
I have to be careful to get
out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with
big knockers.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis |
Hollywood's a place where
they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your
soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held
out for the fifty cents.
-- Marilyn Monroe |
Ever since they found out
that Lassie was a boy, the public has believed the worst about Hollywood.
-- Groucho Marx |
Half the people in Hollywood
are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.
-- Lionel Barrymore |
There are only three ages for
women in Hollywood -- Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.
-- Goldie Hawn |
The only 'ism' Hollywood
believes in is plagiarism.
-- Dorothy Parker |
He reminded me a little of
Walt Disney's version of a mad scientist.
-- Steven Spielberg (on Star Wars Director George
Lucas) |
The most expensive
habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few
years.
-- Steven Spielberg |
They've great respect for the
dead in Hollywood, but none for the living.
-- Errol Flynn |
You can fool all the people
all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.
-- Joseph E. Levine |
In Beverly Hills...they don't
throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.
-- Woody Allen |
Hosting the Oscars is like
making love to a beautiful woman - it's something I only get to do when
Billy Crystal's out of town.
-- Steve Martin (at the 2001 Oscars) |
They used to shoot her
through gauze. You should shoot me through linoleum.
-- Tallulah Bankhead |
Hollywood is a place where a
man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
-- William Faulkner |