“I'll miss Hollywood. Of the twenty friends I thought I had, I'll miss the six I really had.” MissingSixHollywoodTwenties Author:Lauren Bacall
“To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.” PeopleAsksPartyNew YorkHundredHollywoodTwentiesFiftyInvitesCocktailsCocktail Parties Author:Elsa Maxwell
“A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because journalists go into worlds that are not their own. Kids who go to Hollywood write coming-of-age stories for their first scripts, about what happened to them when they were sixteen. Then they write the summer camp script. At the age of twenty-three they haven't produced anything, and that's the end of the career.” WorldWritingFirstsEndsStoriesKidsAgeThreeCareersHappenedHavensCollegeBecomingApproachSummerHollywoodTwentiesScriptsJournalistComing Of AgeCampsGraduatesSixteenScreenwritersCollege GraduatesSummer Camp Author:Nora Ephron
“The idea for Anthem the play began over twenty years ago. I was assisting in the production of another Ayn Rand work, Ideal. I moved to New York and began working on producing the play with my partners. And as a way to raise money to cover some venture debt, we decided to stage Anthem for a limited run at the Lex Theatre in Hollywood.” WayYearsIdeasPlayRunningStageNew YorkIdealsYears AgoDecidedHollywoodTwentiesRaisesMovedProductionsDebtTheatrePartnersVentureAnthemAssisting Author:Jeff Britting
“I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox. But if I put on a white tails and tux like Fred Astaire, I still looked like a truck driver.” IfsStillsStrongWhiteHollywoodTwentiesPoundsDriversTailsTruckOverweightTruck Driver Author:Gene Kelly