Hollywood

(291 votes)   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
1926-1962, American Actress

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(218 votes)   Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.

Erica Jong
1942-, American Author

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(174 votes)   Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.

Dorothy Parker
1893-1967, American Humorous Writer

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(110 votes)   We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.

David Mamet
1947-, American Playwright

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(108 votes)   Its idea of ''production value'' is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer would throw away. Its vision of the rewarding movie is a vehicle for some glamour-puss with two expressions and eighteen changes of costume, or for some male idol of the muddled millions with a permanent hangover, six worn-out acting tricks, the build of a lifeguard, and the mentality of a chicken-strangler.

Raymond Chandler
1888-1959, American Author

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(105 votes)   There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.

Rudyard Kipling
1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(100 votes)   If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.

Anita Loos
1893-1981, American Novelist, Screenwriter

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(94 votes)   To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.

Billie Burke

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(89 votes)   Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

Raymond Chandler
1888-1959, American Author

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(89 votes)   The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant drinking, the incessant squabbling over money, the all-pervasive agent, the strutting of the big shots (and their usually utter incompetence to achieve anything they start out to do), the constant fear of losing all this fairy gold and being the nothing they have never ceased to be, the snide tricks, the whole damn mess is out of this world.

Raymond Chandler
1888-1959, American Author

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(85 votes)   The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom.

Raymond Chandler
1888-1959, American Author

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(84 votes)   Hollywood has gone from Pola to Polaroid.

Pola Negri
1897-1987, Polish Actress

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(79 votes)   It feels like a barbell. [When asked what she thought of her newly acquired Oscar statuette]

Marisa Tomei
1964-, American Actress

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(79 votes)   That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his praise comes to him in the form of a salary check. In Hollywood the average writer is not young, not honest, not brave, and a bit overdressed. But he is darn good company, which book writers as a rule are not. He is better than what he writes. Most book writers are not as good.

Raymond Chandler
1888-1959, American Author

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(77 votes)   Isn't Hollywood a dump -- in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

Source Unknown

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website