#hollywood

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

#hollywood #humor #jewish #satire #humor

When I was ten all I knew was that I hated the weird words used to describe whatever it was that was wrong with my brother—to this day I think it all happened because he was overtaken by evil spirits that got loose in that haunted house ride at the carnival that summer. It’s easier for me to make sense of it that way than it is for me to face the other way—reality. And yet, those evil spirits that were unleashed—be they fake entities from a stupid carnival ride, or cruel malevolencies from dark spiritual chasms of our universe—have stayed with me all these years ↗

— Tim Cummings

#afterlife #astrology #brothers #children-of-celebrities #class-struggle

I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#ever #figure #get #good #guy

I didn't want to raise my child in Hollywood. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#hollywood #i #raise #want

I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most. ↗

— Richard Linklater

#been #easily #guy #had #hollywood

In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings. ↗

— Ernst Lubitsch

#finest #hollywood #leather #novels #order

I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#being #between #charmed #either #entire

I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#big #blockbusters #class #documentaries #fifth

Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood. ↗

— Nick Mancuso

#country #every #grows #hollywood #nations

I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

#hollywood #i #live #nice #three