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Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

Dirk Benedict

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.

Jimmy Cliff

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

Wilson Mizner

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

Carrie Fisher

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

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

Oscar Levant

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

Marilyn Monroe

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

Walter Winchell

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

William Faulkner

No one has a closest friend in Hollywood. These guys do not do friends in the orthodox sense!

Sheilah Graham

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

Alistair Cooke

Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.

Lionel Barrymore

The culture now in television is that the presenter calls the financial and, increasingly, the creative shots. It is comparable to what happened in Hollywood 15 or so years ago.

Terry Wogan

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

Kenneth Tynan

If you are a star in Hollywood then you are always a star in your eyes, but not always in the eyes of new directors for whom your great performances are always fading into the past.

Lee Grant

Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.

George Nathan

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

Oscar Levant

It's a scientific fact. For every year a person lives in Hollywood, they lose two points of their IQ.

Truman Capote

Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.

Walter Winchell

In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.

Groucho Marx

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

Will Rogers

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.

Hunter S. Thompson

In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness you send out for it.

Rex Reed

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

Raymond Chandler

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