Hollywood proverbs

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◆ That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions.

- Bert Lahr98

◆ We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.

- David Mamet98

◆ I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.

- Kim Basinger98

◆ I attribute [success] to having the background of just loving the great stories of the world-and that's what makes the most successful films-combined with my trashy, vulgar appreciation of all that is modern Hollywood.

- Leslie Dixon98

◆ All that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents.

- Catherine Zeta Jones98

◆ In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.

- Anthony Quinn98

◆ Ah, stardom! They put your name on a star in the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard and you walk down and find a pile of dog manure on it. That tells the whole story, baby.

- Lee Marvin98

◆ If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.

- Anita Loos98

◆ The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard.

- Jean Baudrillard98

◆ You should realize that the community with which you deal is not the one of 42nd Street and Broadway, or Hollywood and Vine. These are the crusts on the great American sandwich. The meat is in between.

- Fulton J Sheen98

◆ There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

- Dean Martin98

◆ I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.

- Cedric Hardwicke98

◆ Hollywood is the only place where you can wake up in the morning and hear the birds coughing in the trees.

- Joe Frisco98

◆ I was not beautiful. When I went to Hollywood the beauties were people like Joan Crawford, Hedy Lamarr, Loretta Young. They were incredibly glamorous. I was always the girl next door.

- Ingrid Bergman98

◆ Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.

- Ben Hecht98