"If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is."

- Greta Garbo

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true."

- Hedy Lamarr

"Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation."

- Orson Welles

" I lived in Hollywood long enough to learn to play tennis and become a star, but I never felt it was my home. I was never looking for a home, as a matter of fact. "

- Paulette Goddard

"Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment."

- Joan Crawford

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

- Bette Davis

I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.

- Barbra Streisand

I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.

- Hedy Lamarr

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

- Lauren Bacall

Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.

- Gene Tierney

I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.

- Gene Tierney

Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star.

- Liza Minelli

Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can be a Broadway star here one night, and something happens, and out--nobody knows you on the street. They forget you ever lived. It happens in Hollywood, too.

- Buster Keaton

I came over here (Hollywood) to act, but it turned out all I had to do was to be high-minded, long suffering, white-gloved and decorative.

- Deborah Kerr

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

- Anthony Quinn

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

- Lana Turner

They've great respect for the dead in Hollywood, but none for the living.

- Errol Flynn

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