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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms! – Erica Jong	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood. – Erica Jong	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend. – Katharine Hepburn	added by anonymous 10 years ago
In Hollywood, Oscar is king – David Letterman	added by anonymous 10 years ago
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	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are. – Dorothy Parker	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation. – Orson Welles	added by anonymous 10 years ago
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	added by anonymous 10 years ago
In Hollywood they say there's no business like show business in the hood they say there's no business like ho business. – 50 Cent	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It was a pleasure working with Aishwarya in The Last Legion (2007), and her fans are in for a big surprise. She is an excellent and outstanding actor. She is a shining example of beauty from India, and I'm sure we will be seeing her in more Hollywood movies real soon. – Ben Kingsley	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I went to the Hollywood Bowl last night . . . I bowled a 126. – Tom Zegna	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether. – H.S. Thompson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity. – Lauren Bacall	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars. – Fred Allen	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The Hollywood tradition I like best is called "sucking up to the stars." – Johnny Carson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism. – Dorothy Parker	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton. – Wilson Mizner	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel. – Ben Hecht	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time. – Wilson Mizner	added by anonymous 13 years ago
From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people. – Louis Adamic	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. – Ralph Ellison, "The Invisible Man"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation. – Walter Winchell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. – Fred Allen	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars. – Fred Allen	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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