21 quotes found
“In Hollywood, no one knows anything.”
“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.”
“Well,said Ernest, by some strange coincidence I know this story.Boddichek was not good at irony. I knew that there was that possibility, he said, but we have a great new way to treat it, and I thou...”
“It could have been worse. He could have said he wasn't a 'dessert person' and then I would have been forced to jump out of a moving car.”
“The flirty old moon eased his way across the warped and sooty floorboards and kissed my bare toes, turning my feet as luminous as the skin of cinema stars.”
“I could not take one more minute of trying to convince the people of Los Angeles that a workers revolution and a complete overhaul of society was a tiny bit more exciting than getting a bit role in...”
“They say you can fool some of the people all of the time. Accordingly, I think we should concentrate on this group initially. We can move on to the people you can only fool some of the time at a la...”
“Hollywood is too busy trying to make old formulas hit the jackpot again to see the future. Hollywood is yesterday, forever catching up with what's happening today. This will change only when it bec...”
“How do we know where we're going? Follow the moon! Remember, the moon is always over Hollywood, and Needles isn't far from Hollywood.”
“The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.”
“I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood.”
“I came to the plain fields of Ohio with pictures painted by Hollywood movies and the works of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. None of them had much to say, if at all, about Dayton, Ohio.”
“The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.”
“In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.”
“Those movies... ridiculously inaccurate. The real gods of Asgard Thor, Loki, Odin, and the rest are much more powerful, much more terrifying than anything Hollywood could concoct.”
“Still, I think Hardy's the most likely person in this theater to be snapped up by the studios." "But he can't act!" Norman protested. "Sure he can't act. Neither can Nelson Eddy, and he makes a liv...”
“No one likes to be typecast or stereotyped, especially actors. But who would know Esther Williams without a swimming pool, Bela Lugosi without a cape, or Elvis Presley without his guitar. Would we ...”
“Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.”
“Well,’said Ernest, ‘by some strange coincidence I know this story.’Boddichek was not good at irony. ‘I knew that there was that possibility,’ he said, ‘but we have a great new way to treat it, and ...”
