Hollywood Quotes

"There's a side to it [Hollywood] that's really hard-core and debauched, and there's a lot of people who are real aggressive about having fun. It's weird, they don't have fun doing things, they do things to have fun."

I didn’t promise anybody anything. What do I know about Hollywood, anyway? Just a dream I got from sitting through too many double features.

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

She wasn't just sexually restless: many of her performances display a turbulent mind. While Bogart or Cagney might sneer at the world, and Cary Grant and Mae West wink at it, Bette Davis's eyes were the most subversive in Hollywood, filling the screen with great pools of doubt. Her haughty look threw out a challenge, as if to say, "Is that the best you can do?"

The first screenplay I ever sold was something I’d written with Chris Matheson, my sometimes writing partner. It was Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. And we had a meeting with a director who had some really lame ideas. And Chris and I said, 'I don’t think that would really work.' And this director said, 'Well, if you don’t think that’s a good idea, we’ll find some writers who do think it’s a good idea.'

For the first time, I heard actors saying my lines and my partner’s lines, and it was – it was extremely thrilling because the kids -- most of them -- were too young to change them, so they were actually reading them as written, which was nice, and it hasn’t happened a lot since then.

Well, Jack Warner may have been celebrated for calling writers "Schmucks with Underwoods," but 20 years earlier Irving Thalberg … said, "The most important person in the motion picture process is the writer, and we must do everything in our power to prevent them from ever realizing it."

The important thing, we are all in this together. The film-makers who make the movies and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association members who in turn pose for pictures with the movie stars.

Life is Hollywood, love. It is all a sham

When I was young, everybody on screen was gorgeous. I think showbusiness has lost a lot of its magic in that way. I have to say, there aren't that many good-looking actresses around today. I mean, there's Angelina Jolie and there's . . . Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Aniston is cute but I wouldn't call her beautiful. She's no Ava, Lana or Audrey.

One of television's greatest contributions is that it brought back murder into the home where it belongs.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.

There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.

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.

[On Hollywood] I hate the place like poison with a sincere hatred.

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

Joe Gillis: You used to be in pictures. You used to be big.
Norma Desmond: I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

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

If we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, it makes us feel as though our hard work ain't been in vain for nothin'.