Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive…

“Maybe the same essential download was also being delivered to other people—a massive, compassionate battalion of us—at the same time.”

— Jonathan Talat Phillips

So many men have holes in their souls the shape of their fathers. You can pass that on to your kid, or you can…

— Chris Gardner

Hollywood, what a place it is! It is so far away from the rest of the world, so narrow. No one thinks of anything…

— Dolores del Rio

“No one likes to admit it, but Hollywood is the only place you don’t get locked up for being crazy.”

— D.W. Buffa

People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

— Jackie Collins

Hollywood is the only place where you can wake up in the morning and hear the birds coughing in the trees.

— Joe Frisco

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

— William Faulkner

Hollywood must be the only place on earth where you can be fired by a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap.

— Steve Martin

Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.

— Dorothy Parker

Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or…

— Robert Redford

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.

— Fred Allen

Hollywood is a place where some people lie on the beach and look up at the stars, whereas other people lie on the stars…

— Noel Coward

Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle.

— Victor Mature

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

— Angela Carter

Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.

— Dorothy Parker