Joseph Wambaugh Quotes

I don't give a damn about Hollywood.

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

Hollywood, what a place it is! It is so far away from the rest of the world, so narrow. No one thinks of anything but motion pictures or talks of anything else.

Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or getting to Hollywood - I was born next door.

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

I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.

Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.

I don't think I ever understood Hollywood.

Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.

I've got no anti-America or anti-Hollywood kick, it's just that I never wanted to go and kick my heels around L.A. for six months hoping something would happen.

Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.

Hollywood is a very interesting place to deal with. And having been a theatre person, I was quite surprised by the slipperiness of some people in Holly-weird. There was a part of me that just said, 'If this is the way the game is played, I'm not sure I want to play it.'

Hollywood is a place of great irony at all times.

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

Hollywood is the kind of town that likes to make everything larger than life: movie premieres, aging actress' lips, and murders. Actors come from all over the world to find their sliver of fame on the street of L.A. Many stars rise, but many more fall.

Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.

I'm from Los Angeles, and growing up here, I've always been enamored by Hollywood and the industry. It's just something I grew up with, and I loved it.

Hollywood is a peculiar beast - people in Hollywood are nuts.

Everything you have ever heard about the strangeness of Hollywood is true!

I never went to any of the Hollywood child parties.

My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that.

Hollywood is a world all its own.

People in Hollywood don't have that much sex, or at least I don't.

You know, Hollywood is a very interesting town - always has been, always will be.