Hollywood Quotes

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  Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Money

  Quoted in Marilyn Monroe in Her OwnWords (1990)

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• In Hollywood, 'under development' means 'all I have is the title.'

  Roger Ebert

  Mean, Titles, Development

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• You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

  Carrie Fisher

  Sarcastic, Fake People, Sarcasm

  Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

  Clark Gable

  Movie, Badass, Wind

  "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

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  I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

  Andy Warhol

  Beautiful, Artist, Commercial Art

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• In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Girl, Kissing, Soul

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.53, Taylor Trade Publishing

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  If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.

  George A. Romero

  Writing, Bucks, Statistics

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• Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls.

  Julia Phillips

  People, Soul, Holes

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• They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.

  Raymond Chandler

  Names, Use, Want

  Raymond Chandler (1987). “Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler”, Delta

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• 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

  Integrity, Men, Machines

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.120, Univ of California Press

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• I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. ''Out there,'' I called it.

  Dorothy Parker

  Names, Looks, Horror

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• If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it.

  George Burns

  Inspirational, Motivational, Actors

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• Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Talking

  Sunday Times, (London), June 20, 1971.

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• Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Stars, Mistake

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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• I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them

  Armand Assante

  Fun, Ideas, Champion

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• Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles.

  William Petersen

  Stars, Thinking, Roles

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• Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.

  Morgan Brittany

  People, Pedestal, Want

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• I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Mario Puzo

  Movie, Hollywood Films, Film History

  The Godfather ch. 1 (1969)

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• 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

  Book, Writing, Average

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• In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, 'Did he leave a will?' but 'Did he leave a diary?'

  Liza Minnelli

  People, Diaries, Dies

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• Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

  Liv Ullmann

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Swimming

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• Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.

  Richard O'Brien

  Bedtime, Very Good, Deals

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• Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.

  Dorothy Parker

  Money, Hands, Snow

  In Malcolm Cowley Writers at Work 1st Series (1958) p. 81

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• 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

  Art, Glasses, Bathroom

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• In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Apples, Long, Peaches

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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