I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday. – Nelson Algren
An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer. – Fred A. Allen
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars. – Fred A. Allen
In Beverly Hills… they dont throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows. – Woody Allen
If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple. – Bernardo Bertolucci
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth… suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully. – Julie Burchill
To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony. – Billie Burke
If its a good script Ill do it. And if its a bad script, and they pay me enough, Ill do it. – George Burns
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
Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur. – Raymond Chandler
They dont want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they cant use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them. – Raymond Chandler
The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom. – Raymond Chandler
Studio executives are intelligent, brutally overworked men and women who share one thing in common with baseball managers: they wake up every morning of the world with the knowledge that sooner or later theyre going to get fired. – William Goldman
I hate a man who always says yes to me. When I say no I like a man who also says no. – Samuel Goldwyn
In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owners mind art was a synonym for bankruptcy. The movie Owners are the only troupe in the history of entertainment that has never been seduced by the adventure of the entertainment world. – Ben Hecht
Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle. – Ben Hecht
You write a book like that youre fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, its like pissing in your fathers beer. – Ernest Hemingway
The average Hollywood film stars ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend. – Katharine Hepburn
