“Hollywood is 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
“In Hollywood if you don’t have a shrink, people think you’re crazy.”
― Johnny Carson
“Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that’s printed about him.”
― Orson Welles
“Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave.”
― Joan Crawford
“Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.”
― Marlon Brando
“Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it’s full of surprises, and you’re constantly getting fucked.”
― David Mamet
“The foundation of Hollywood alchemically turned celluloid into gold and insincerity into an art form.”
― Stewart Stafford
“Lord, that Hollywood train, forever coming round the bend!”
― James Baldwin