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Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.
-John Huston
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Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.
-Erica Jong
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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
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Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading dead zone of exhaustion, inertia, and brilliant decay.
-Arthur Kroker
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Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained orgy farm, its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can find.
-Veronica Lake
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you will find the real tinsel underneath.
-Oscar Levant
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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
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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
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Hollywood has gone from Pola to Polaroid.
-Pola Negri
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I devoutly believe it is the writer who has matured the film medium more than anyone else in Hollywood. Even when he knew nothing about his work, he brought at least knowledge of life and a more grown-up mind, a maturer feeling about the human being.
-Dudley Nichols
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Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
-Dorothy Parker
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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
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Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls.
-Julia Phillips
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In Hollywood if you don't have happiness you send out for it.
-Rex Reed
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Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands.
-David O. Selznick
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You don't resign from these jobs, you escape from them.
-Dawn Steel
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If you have a vagina and an attitude in this town, then that's a lethal combination.
-Sharon Stone
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It feels like a barbell. When asked what she thought of her newly acquired Oscar statuette
-Marisa Tomei
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Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.
-Dalton Trumbo
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I hate the place like poison with a sincere hatred.
-Source Unknown
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Hollywood makes prostitutes out of women and sissies out of men.
-Source Unknown
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It's a mining town in lotus land.
-Source Unknown
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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
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Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
-Orson Welles
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My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.
-James Woods
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Books about Hollywood
