Hollywood quotes

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◆ 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 Monroe100

◆ I'll never understand the animal, the machine of Hollywood business. And I don't want to understand it. It's like joining a club, a clique just because everyone else is in it. You don't have any particular interest in it, and it has nothing to do with who you are as a person. You just join it because it's the thing to do. The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.

- Johnny Depp99

◆ Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

- Marilyn Monroe99

◆ Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.

- Hunter S Thompson99

◆ I used to think as I looked at the Hollywood night, 'there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.'

- Marilyn Monroe99

◆ Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

- John Wayne99

◆ You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

- Joseph E Levine99

◆ In Beverly Hills...they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.

- Woody Allen99

◆ Hosting the Oscars is like making love to a beautiful woman - it's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal's out of town.

- Steve Martin99

◆ He reminded me a little of Walt Disney's version of a mad scientist.

- Steven Spielberg99

◆ The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.

- Steven Spielberg99

◆ The execs don't care what color you are. They care about how much money you make. Hollywood is not really black or white. It's green.

- Will Smith99

◆ I thought 'Deep Throat' was a movie about a giraffe.

- Bob Hope99

◆ Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.

- Walter Winchell99

◆ I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers.

- Jamie Lee Curtis99