You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
Carrie Fisher
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
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
In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.
Shelly Winters