#hollywood

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#hollywood #hope #life #matter #phony

I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - 'I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!' ↗

— Alexander Skarsgard

#actor #child #child actor #dance #five

I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#been #decided #get #go #had

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood. ↗

— Rita Wilson

#american #born #father #greek #hollywood

It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren't even young and beautiful now. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#hollywood #los-angeles #beauty

Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief…. Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louvre! A bas l’originalité, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le vol-pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#films #hollywood #architecture

The glamorous life is a facade, a fraud a farce of frivolous trite The storybook is blank inside Chivalry has died ↗

— Donato DiCristino

#donato #heaven-and-hell #hollywood #limbo-bimbo #magical-prowess

Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be. ↗

— Lionel Barrymore

#discovered #dying #half #hollywood #other

In Hollywood, if you have any success, you have this fear: What do you have to do to hang onto it? ↗

— David Caruso

#fear #hang #hollywood #onto #success

In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy. ↗