Hollywood Quotes

“We didn't need sex. We had Tyrone Power.”
― Barbara Cartland

“He has the memory of a convict, the balls of a fireman, and the eyesight of a housebreaker. When there is crime to fight, Landsman tears around Sitka like a man with his pant leg caught on a rocket. It's like there's a film score playing behind him, heavy on the castanets. The problem comes in the hours when he isn't working, when his thoughts start blowing out the open window of his brain like pages from the blotter. Sometimes it takes a heavy paperweight to pin them down.”
― Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union

“Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.”
― Candice Bergen

“Over the years, I have been subjected to many indignities, all for the sake of Art. If I ever catch him, I'm going to kill the guy.”
― Bob Hope, THE ROAD TO HOLLYWOOD~MY FORTY-YEAR LOVE AFFAIR WITH THE MOVIES

“I leave the kitchen table to bathe, and to dress for church. If only my closet held on its shelves an array of faces I could wear rather than dresses, I would know which face to put on today. As for the dresses, I haven't a clue.”
― Tim Cummings, Orphans

“Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickinson, and beautiful ‘Ray’ as someone dashing and manly like Jules Verne or Ernest Hemingway...and we’ll write on your white-room walls. We’ll write you out of your supposed insanity. I love you, Micky Affias.

-James (from "Descendants of the Eminent")”
― Tim Cummings

“The Government set the stage economically by informing everyone that we were in a depression period, with very pointed allusions to the 1930s. The period just prior to our last 'good' war. ... Boiled down, our objective was to make killing and military life seem like adventurous fun, so for our inspiration we went back to the Thirties as well. It was pure serendipity. Inside one of the Scripter offices there was an old copy of Doc Smith's first LENSMAN space opera. It turned out that audiences in the 1970s were more receptive to the sort of things they scoffed at as juvenilia in the 1930s. Our drugs conditioned them to repeat viewings, simultaneously serving the ends of profit and positive reinforcement. The movie we came up with stroked all the correct psychological triggers. The fact that it grossed more money than any film in history at the time proved how on target our approach was.'

'Oh my God... said Jonathan, his mouth stalling the open position.

'Six months afterward we ripped ourselves off and got secondary reinforcement onto television. We pulled a 40 share. The year after that we phased in the video games, experimenting with non-narcotic hypnosis, using electrical pulses, body capacitance, and keying the pleasure centers of the brain with low voltage shocks. Jesus, Jonathan, can you *see* what we've accomplished? In something under half a decade we've programmed an entire generation of warm bodies to go to war for us and love it. They buy what we tell them to buy. Music, movies, whole lifestyles. And they hate who we tell them to. ... It's simple to make our audiences slaver for blood; that past hasn't changed since the days of the Colosseum. We've conditioned a whole population to live on the rim of Apocalypse and love it. They want to kill the enemy, tear his heart out, go to war so their gas bills will go down! They're all primed for just that sort of denouemment, ti satisfy their need for linear storytelling in the fictions that have become their lives! The system perpetuates itself. Our own guinea pigs pay us money to keep the mechanisms grinding away. If you don't believe that, just check out last year's big hit movies... then try to tell me the target demographic audience isn't waiting for marching orders. ("Incident On A Rainy Night In Beverly Hills")”
― David J. Schow, Seeing Red

“When you make a film, if you are an insider, you're usually the last person to know that your film is not right. But when you are an outsider, you have a little more objectivity.I think a part of my success is that I am naturally objective. I am not an insider.In many ways, Anupama is the same.
Foreword, First Day First Show”
― Shah Rukh Khan

“Sînt niște... compozițiuni de fetișcană care e cam tristă în fond, cam nebună și care vrea să filosofeze avînd certitudinea că e genială și că poate ajunge cu mîinile ei încă neformate, încă în creștere, stelele de pe cer.”
― Vasile Rebreanu, Un caz de iubire la Hollywood

“Now is the time of prophecy without death as a consequence
the universe will ultimately disappear
Hollywood will rot on the windmills of Eternity
Hollywood whose movies stick in the throat of God
Yes Hollywood will get what it deserves
Time
Seepage of nerve-gas over the radio
History will make this poem prophetic and its awful silliness a hideous spiritual music
I have the moan of doves and the feather of ecstasy
Man cannot long endure the hunger of the cannibal abstract”
― Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and Other Poems

“Junior writers $300; Minor poets—$500 a week; Broken novelists—$850-1000; One play dramatists—$1500; Sucks—$2000. Wits—$2500.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

“The piercing fanfare of the brass against the brutal boom and rattle of the drums surged through the air. At the head of the Ferris band marched the drum majorette. A crimson and white shako crowned her long dark hair which flew out behind her and across her radiant face flushed with excitement. Her blue eyes flashed and her smile registered triumph at having been chosen.”
― Clark Zlotchew, Once upon a Decade: Tales of the Fifties

“To create what it does, Hollywood has to draw young people, often of unstable temperment, from all over the world. It plunges them into exacting work---surrounds them with a sensuous life-- and cuts them off from the normal sources of living".”
― Max Lerner, America as a Civilization

“Please do not look only at the dark side

All the newspapers in the free world explain why you return their readers understand how you feel

You have the sympathy of millions

As a tribute to your sorrow we resolve to spend more money on nuclear weapons there is always a bright side

If this were only a movie a boat would be available have you ever seen our movies they end happily

You would lean at the rail with 'him' the sun would set on China kiss and fade

You would marry one of the kind authorities

In our movies there is no law higher than love in real life duty is higher

You would not want the authorities to neglect duty

How do you like the image of the free world sorry you cannot stay

This is the first and last time we will see you in our papers

When you are back home remember us we will be having a good time.”
― Thomas Merton, Selected Poems of Thomas Merton

“Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.”
― Ally Sheedy

“Old Bette Davis movies are all she watches now. There’s one where Bette Davis’s character goes blind, and as the credits rolled my mother said, ‘Must be what they mean when they talk about Bette Davis eyes.”
― Jean-Luke Swanepoel, The Thing About Alice

“Trina stared into her open kitchen cabinets. She was two and a half days into her pre-date-night ritual fast, and she was about to crack. Technically, she wasn’t going out on a date Saturday night, but Juliet was determined to have a man in her bed by the end of the evening. To be honest, Trina wasn’t really looking forward to tomorrow night’s manhunt. Sure, she was desperate for some hot monkey sex, but the thought of a one-night-stand was quickly losing its appeal. She wanted more than just plain, old sex. She wanted romance -- preferably with someone for whom she didn’t have to fast for three days to attract.”
― Lucie Simone, Hollywood Ending

“Hollywood is a door leading to a thousand doors”
― Kensington Roth

“- Julietă
- Hău
- Unde ești?
- Nu îți spun
- Dezdemona
- Desigur
- Vreau să te întreb ceva foarte important
- Spune
- Păi...
- Atunci scrie
- Cât e ceasul?”
― Vasile Rebreanu, Un caz de iubire la Hollywood

“She felt the past clutching for her and stepped out of its grasp.”
― Josh Winning, Burn the Negative

“The Needle Man wasn't outside anymore.”
― Josh Winning, Burn the Negative

“The house appeared distorted. It looked almost Victorian but too big, too ornate. The surface vibe was kitschy British, which didn’t fit with the all-American size of the place, and every light fixture and picture frame was gaudy to the point of comical. It was as if somebody had cannibalized a dozen guesthouses from around the world and pieced together a Frankenstein’s monster of a hotel.”
― Josh Winning, Burn the Negative

“”Jee-sus, these tits!“ one the Italians teamsters was heard to murmur, echoing the pent-up sentiments of other males present. ”Take a good look, because it’s all we’ll see of them until the picture comes out.””
― Andrew Yule, Losing the Light: Terry Gilliam & The Munchausen Saga

“You did good, son. Keep it up!”
― Bob Hope

“Life is like Hollywood. Actors come and go, like the seasons, but Hollywood remains.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“Celebrities and famous people live in a translucent bubble. When common people (for want of a better term) see a celebrity, the skin of the bubble of fame serves to magnify and elevate the celebrity in the eyes of the common people. And conversely when the celebrity views the common people outwardly through the translucent skin of the bubble they live in, they see the common people as diminished.

Although it is understandable that the celebrity wishes to have all the power and advantage of their elevated status it is somewhat naïve and selfish that most of them want to also be able to communicate with the common people as the common people communicate with each other, when it suits the celebrity. That is, in their leisure time when they go out in public to a bar or café.

In other words, they want to be treated as a common person in such a public situation, yet on the other hand enjoy the perks of being a celebrity. They want to have their cake and eat it too. In this untenable situation most of them will find out that in fact fame is a double-edged sword and there are also great disadvantages to it for them.

In reality, the only way they can communicate with the common people as the common people communicate with each other, is if their bubble of fame and fortune bursts and they lose all their elevated status and wealth. Such as when a celebrity succumbs to drug or alcohol addiction and ends up living on the streets.”
― Jack Freestone

“I don’t dislike actors. But they are overhyped and glorified with fame and fortune. Actors simply read lines and change their facial expressions. Even then they usually need a director to tell them how to do it. It could be argued that actors are not creators or are at best secondary creators. Actors create something from something, usually a prewritten script. Whereas sculptors will create something from the raw material of the earth only using their hands and no other tools. In this regard sculptors are higher creators than painters, and painters are higher creators than musicians or writers who use symbols and tools to create. Actors however are the lowest of all creators. Perhaps that helps to explain why Hitchcock said, ‘Actors should be treated as cattle.’ Actors get acting jobs, just as a lawyer gets a legal job, but creative artists create. Lawyers do not create the law, parliament and judges do. They simply interpret and apply the law as part of their job. Similarly, actors do not create the words or the story. They simply interpret and apply the words from the script.”

“Yes, it’s true. Many actors are jealous of other artists. That’s why so many actors seek out those roles. Those artists have an X factor, which we do not.”

“But you never did?”

“Did what?”

“Played a role as a writer, or painter, or a musician?”

“I was never offered those roles.”

“Why not?”

“Not enough X factor?” she asked.

We both smiled.

“No Oscar?” I asked.

“No Oscar,” she replied. “Life is unfair.”

“The biggest lies, the biggest prize,” I said.

“What do you mean?”

“It was never just about performance or entertainment. Movies mostly carried agendas which the cult wished to promote. The actors who were happy promoting those agendas without question, without any moral standards, were the ones who received the Oscars. And it was not just limited to the movie industry. Nobel Peace prizes, Grammys, in some cases Olympic gold medals. The movies that won the Oscars usually carried the biggest lies. AIDS, space travel, wars, aliens, and the actors who won them were the most corrupt.”
― Jack Freestone, The Pures

“In the golden years of Hollywood there were real movie stars. Those movie stars had mystery and magic about them. And the people mostly loved them and were fascinated by them and their talent when they watched their performances at the cinema. Those Hollywood movie stars did not do too many interviews for publicity. They therefore retained those elements of mystery and wonder.

Then came television. And the celebrities started to become more accessible to the public. They shared more about their lives, their opinions, and their families. Audiences started to mould how they wanted their acting stars to perform and behave in their public and private lives. Thus, the great movies and acting mostly ended at the end of the 1960s, as did the fascination with the great movie stars.


Things got even worse with the arrival of reality TV. Though reality TV was itself a fake concept because the shows were staged and scripted, actors could entertain and be admired by the masses simply by sharing their common daily routines and relationship interactions. Those actors had a small amount of talent but a disproportionate amount of fame. And the people started to realise that fame was a bit of a fake power or gift. And that they the common people (for want of a better term) were just like the new breed of celebrities, the only difference was that the common people did not have their fame and fortune. The magic and mystique of actors had ended.


Then came the internet content creators. At this point the talent had become completely replaced by their fame. In other words, there was no talent, just the fame. A very famous person would make their fortunes simply by doing a little dance, showing a bit of cleavage, showing how they cleaned their teeth, what they ate for dinner that day, and so on.


In conclusion, increased communication with mediums such as television and the internet has served to not only make all citizens around the world far more homogenised, but it has also served to diminish creative art and artistic individuality and uniqueness, because the crowd or cloud of common people decide not only what they want but also what is normal and moral.”
― Jack Freestone

“[Death by Missiles ... Death by Racism]
A fortunate few,
Afghans,
Iraqis,
and others,
may survive
the wars
and missiles
that the West brings
to their homelands.
Yet when they reach
the so-called harbors of safety
in the West,
they find themselves
killed by racism.
This is no coincidence,
my friends.
Nor is it a paradox.
Do you still not see
that death by missiles
and death by racism
are two faces
of the same policy?
Do you still not understand
that missiles are the language
of foreign policy,
while racism is the language
of domestic policy?
Have you failed to notice,
my beloved friends,
how Hollywood
casts Arabs,
Muslims,
and anyone who resembles them,
however remotely,
into its stories,
to justify,
and even reconcile,
the West's policies abroad
with its policies at home?
How is it
that you overlook Hollywood
while remaining among
its most devoted consumers?
Have you not noticed
that many of you
have come to see beauty,
and even humanity itself,
only in white skin,
blond hair,
and blue eyes?
Yes, my beloved friends,
the death of an Iraqi,
an Afghan,
or anyone arriving
from a country occupied
or devastated by the West,
is neither coincidence
nor contradiction.
Nor is it strange.
What is truly strange
is that they are not killed
more often,
after decades
of Hollywood propaganda
portraying them,
and everyone who resembles them,
as savage villains
from whom the world
must be saved.
And remember,
my beloved friends,
wherever you may be:
missiles
and racism
are two faces
of the same coin,
rising and falling
like the American dollar,
whenever power desires,
and striking
whomever it chooses.

14 January 2023”
― Louis Yako, سرطان في كل مكان [Cancer Everywhere]

“The sun is a joke.”
― Nathaniel West, Day of the Locust, The