An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.
~ Fred A. Allen

Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.
~ Dalton Trumbo

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
~ Julie Burchill

Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained orgy farm, its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can find.
~ Veronica Lake

Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.
~ John Huston

Hollywood has gone from Pola to Polaroid.
~ Pola Negri

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.
~ Ben Hecht

Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls.
~ Julia Phillips

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
~ Fred A. Allen

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
~ Orson Welles

Hollywood makes prostitutes out of women and sissies out of men.
~ Anonymous

Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
~ Dorothy Parker

Hollywood's 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.
~ Marilyn Monroe

Hollywood's a very weird place. I think there's less of everything except for attitude.
~ Dean Cain

Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands.
~ David O. Selznick

I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. ''Out there,'' I called it.
~ Dorothy Parker

I devoutly believe it is the writer who has matured the film medium more than anyone else in Hollywood. Even when he knew nothing about his work, he brought at least knowledge of life and a more grown-up mind, a maturer feeling about the human being.
~ Dudley Nichols

I hate a man who always says ''yes'' to me. When I say ''no'' I like a man who also says ''no.''
~ Samuel Goldwyn

I hate the place like poison with a sincere hatred.
~ Anonymous

I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.
~ Nelson Algren