“My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.” PeopleEndsMotherTerribleHollywoodIniquityDens Author:Kitty Carlisle
“This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I had a great conceit to think that if all else failed I could always go to Hollywood. So when all else did fail I really went to Hollywood. And then I found out how wrong I was.” IfsThinkingTryingFoundLeftNumbersFailingTerribleHollywoodArmyConfessionConceit Author:David Niven
“I'm sure there are people in Hollywood, whose main drive in film is to make money, who will feel that any use of the word hijacking or any reference to anything violent or remotely associated with the terrible tragedy that occurred will lose customers for them. And that will be the only criterion that will matter and so they'll force the minions that work for them to remove these things from their movies, or not make movies about that subject.” PeopleFeelsMatterUseFilmForceLosesSubjectsTerribleHollywoodTragedyCustomersViolentMaking MoneyRemoveCriteriaMinionsHijackingTerrible Tragedy Author:Woody Allen
“Don't be discouraged if you think you're not a great writer because terrible writers are successful in Hollywood” IfsThinkingSuccessfulTerribleHollywoodDiscouragedGreat Writers Author:David Seltzer
“I do not like the Broadway theatre because it does not know how to say hello. The tone of voice is false, the mannerisms are false, the sex is false, ideal, the Hollywood world of perfection, the clean image, the well pressed clothes, the well scrubbed anus, odorless, inhuman, of the Hollywood actor, the Broadway star. And the terrible false dirt of Broadway, the lower depths in which the dirt is imitated, inaccurate.” KnowsWorldWellsDoeActorsStarsSexVoiceKnow HowTerribleClothesIdealsPerfectionHollywoodCleanDepthTheatreToneDirtHelloBroadwayInhumanMannerismsAnusBroadway Theatre Author:Julian Beck
“I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.” FilmHouseTerribleBuiltHollywoodAccountsTerrific Author:Michael Caine
“it's difficult in Hollywood to be allowed to try anything. It's all a terrible compromise. There is no time for art. All that matters is what they call box office.” TryingArtMatterDifficultTerribleOfficeHollywoodBoxesCompromiseMovieBox Office Author:Greta Garbo
“I got very depressed. Hollywood can be a terrible place when youre depressed. The pits. I decided I had to change my life and do different things.” DifferentTerribleDecidedHollywoodDifferent ThingsPitsChanging My LifeVery Depressed Author:Jeff Conaway
“I think Hollywood has gone in a disastrous path. It's terrible. The years of cinema that were great were the '30s, '40s, not so much the '50s...but then the foreign films took over and it was a great age of cinema as American directors were influenced by them and that fueled the '50s and '60s and '70s.” ThinkingYearsAgeFilmGonePathTerribleDirectorsHollywoodCinema Author:Woody Allen
“Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.” IdeasImagineTerribleHollywoodLikesCopiesRobots Author:Colin Angle
“I knew at the time my haircut was pretty damn god-awful, so I was just hoping that I wasn't one of the joke ones. And they put me through to Hollywood and I thought, "Well okay, maybe I'm still one of the joke ones but at least I'm not terrible?"” WellsStillsTerribleJokesOkayHollywoodAwfulDamnHaircuts Author:David Cook
“This is a terrible place to spend your life in. Nobody in Hollywood is normal. Absolutely nobody. And they have such a vicious attitude toward one another. They say much worse things about each other than outsiders say about them, and nobody has any real friends.” RealAttitudeTerribleNormalHollywoodOutsidersReal FriendsVicious Author:Gary Cooper
“I hated the place (Hollywood), not the work, but the lack of privacy, those terrible prying fan magazine writers and all the surrounding exploitation.” FansTerribleHollywoodMagazinesHatedPrivacyExploitation Author:Jean Arthur