“Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue you could get better somewhere else.” RealWould BeHateOrderIndividualCitiesOughtLuckyHollywoodStructureDamnGet BetterLos AngelesMailSomewhere ElseCatalogues Book:The Little Sister: A Novel Source: The Little Sister: A Novel
“The whole city gives you the impression of impermanence. You have the feeling that one day someone is going to yell, "Cut! Strike it!" and then the stagehands will scurry out and remove the mountains, the movie-star homes, the Hollywood Bowl--everything.” GivingWholeFeelingsHomeFunnyStarsCitiesCuttingOne DayMountainHollywoodStrikesImpressionRemoveLos AngelesBowlsMovie StarImpermanence Author:Allan Sherman
“The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice -- a sometimes ambiguous choice, but choice nonetheless. Combined with a visionary approach to experience that melded Hollywood and Americans' taste for comfort and self-deception, Las Vegas grew into the last American frontier city, as foreign at times as Prague but as quintessential as Peoria. In Las Vegas, you can choose your fantasy; in the rest of America, you don't always get to pick.” MadeSelfSometimesLastsAmericaChoicesCultureSinCitiesFantasyGrewComfortTasteApproachPicksHollywoodMade ItDeceptionFrontiersAmerican CultureVegasLas VegasVisionariesSelf DeceptionAmbiguousReinventionQuintessentialProminencePraguePeoria Author:Hal Rothman
“If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.” IfsWorldLooksAmericaFilmHateCitiesHollywoodDevelopingRangeHollywood Movies Author:Mark Steyn
“with a mental equipment which allows me to tell the difference between hot and cold, I stand out in this community like a modern day Cicero. Dropped into any other city of the world, I'd rate as a possibly adequate night watchman.” WorldNightCommunityDifferencesCitiesModernColdHollywoodHotRateEquipmentStanding OutAdequateModern DayHot And Cold Author:Anita Loos
“It was a pity that movies and live TV left New York for Hollywood. London theater, movies, television - until (Britain's) money ran out - were always better than ours since the city was the political capital of the country, as well as the artistic and literary one. In L.A. we've always been slightly sealed off from real life. It's no accident that two of our most interesting directors, Woody Allen and Bob Altman, are more or less settled in the real world.” WorldWellsTwoRealCountryPoliticalLeftInterestingCitiesNew YorkTelevisionTvsDirectorsHollywoodTheaterAccidentsLondonReal LifePityArtisticRanBritainReal WorldBobMost InterestingWoodyLive Tv Author:Gore Vidal
“We need this city to actually live up to its name-The City of Angels. We need to spread our wings. We need to show that we are more than red carpets, we are more than Hollywood, that we are a city ourselves of open arms. We are a city of generosity and compassion.” NeedsShowsNamesCitiesCompassionArmsAngelRedHollywoodWingsSpreadGenerosityCarpetRed CarpetOpen ArmsCity Of Angels Author:Maria Shriver
“The most remarkable thing about Hollywood is that it does not exist. ... Hollywood, in a word, has no center, never had one, no city hall, court house, church, square, or rather it probably has some of those but they're so aimlessly thrown in with the general jumble ... that I, for one, never found them.” DoeFoundHouseChurchCitiesHollywoodCourtThrownRemarkableHallsSquaresCity Hall Author:Vicki Baum
“Well I don't know what the city of Hollywood knows about foreign policy, but do I know that a lot of people do learn and educate themselves about policy and I don't have to be a policy expert to know that this will be a disaster.” PeopleKnowsWellsCitiesPolicyHollywoodDisasterExpertsEducateForeign Policy Author:Janeane Garofalo
“I live in Los Angeles. It's a very liberal city, but it's so hypocritical in what it's liberal about. You can be driving down Hollywood Boulevard, see a guy in lipstick and high heels wearing a fur coat masturbating into a mailbox. People giving him a hard time as they drive by: Hey, is that real fur? Of course not! That's sick!” PeopleGivingRealHardGuyCoursesCitiesHollywoodSickDrivingHeyHard TimesLos AngelesHeelsCoatsFurLipstickHigh HeelsHypocriticalBoulevardMailboxesFur Coats Author:Dana Gould
“I don't really know Hollywood, and I think that L.A. needs a bit of time to really know the city, because it's such a huge city.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsBitsCitiesHugeHollywood Author:Audrey Tautou
“You can't find an uglier urban environment than the centre of Hollywood, but then you go to Griffith Park, you go to the beach, you go to the mountains, and it's rural. I live up in the Hollywood Hills and I have frogs, owls, coyotes, mountain lions - but I'm ten minutes from the centre of the city.” CitiesEnvironmentMinutesTenMountainHollywoodHillsBeachParksLionsUrbanCentreFrogsOwlCoyotesUrban EnvironmentHollywood Hills Author:Moby
“I'm happy to get up in the morning. I'll tell you a little secret: I still want to work in Hollywood. However, I get really excited about getting on a plane, flying to a city, and talking to a group of people about finding the gifts they already have inside.” PeopleWantLittlesStillsSecretCitiesTalkingMorningGroupsFindingsHollywoodExcitedFlyingGet UpPlanesGet Real Author:Kim Coles
“You were out on tour, 75 cities in 80 days, and then making records on top of it. And they started calling us the Hollywood Vampires 'cause anybody only saw us at night.” NightCitiesRecordsSawsCallingHollywoodVampire Author:Alice Cooper
“When you come from an environment that's military, and they don't stress that topic of aesthetics or beauty pageants and makeup, there are a lot of things you just don't have that city girls have. Or the country girl who goes to movies and dreams of going to Hollywood as an actress.” CountryDreamGirlCitiesEnvironmentMilitaryHollywoodStressActressesMakeupTopicsAestheticsPageantDon't StressBeauty PageantCountry GirlCity Girl Author:Pam Grier
“I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.” PeopleIfsKnowsMindImportantDifferentInspiringCitiesHollywoodListenersInvitedGood Listener Book:My Story Source: My Story
“I keep a pretty low profile. I live in Culver City with some roommates. I don't do the whole 'Hollywood' thing.” WholeCitiesLowsHollywoodProfileRoommate Author:Cory Monteith
“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.” FearCitiesHollywoodSicknessDreadAnticipation Author:Dirk Benedict
“The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of their beauty devalued like the Russian ruble or Argentine peso;to work as bellhops, as bar hostesses, as garbage collectors, as maids. The city was a cliff and they were its stampeding lemmings. At the foot of the cliff was the valley of the broken dolls.” BeautifulSufferingPowerfulCitiesFeetHugeBrokenHollywoodBarsValleysCurrencyGarbagePatheticCliffsDollsHerdsCollectorsMaidsHumiliatedHostessesLemmings Author:Salman Rushdie
“I love my city and I feel like the majority of the people that are in the city are people from other cities. So I think that L.A. sometimes might get a bad rap because it's known to be so Hollywood-oriented and then underneath that you have crime. But that's really the case in pretty much any major city that you go to.” PeopleThinkingFeelsSometimesMightCitiesKnownCasesCrimeMajorsHollywoodMajorityRap Author:Regina King
“I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan.” PastCitiesNew YorkWalkingHollywoodBusyIndifferenceNew York CityManhattanDowntownI Love New YorkDisinterest Author:James Van Der Beek
“Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can be a Broadway star here one night, and something happens, and out--nobody knows you on the street. They forget you ever lived. It happens in Hollywood, too.” KnowsWorldWellsRealityHappensNightStarsForgetCitiesStreetsNew YorkHollywoodThings HappenBroadwayOne NightNobody KnowsForget YouCities In The World Author:Buster Keaton
“The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there is that Hollywood is an Oriental city. As long as you do that, you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else, you'll perish.” IfsTryingLongMightRememberCitiesOne ThingHollywood Author:Olivia de Havilland
“I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's why I don't live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.” KindJobsGuyLosesCitiesHollywoodWoodsLos Angeles Author:Aidan Quinn