Norm MacDonald Quotes

Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.

Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

Hollywood is wonderful. Anyone who doesn't like it is either crazy or sober.

Hollywood is a great place if you're an orange.

As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.

I'm 27 years old. I'm going to go into Hollywood really arrogant. I'll be breaking a lot of rules. It's going to be hot.

The movie industry is full of crazy people who think that they are god.

Hollywood ... the most sensational merry-go-around ever built.

What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and LOUSY.

I am not a member of the chamber of commerce for show business, believe me, but there are some really good people in the business, and [Tom] Hanks has this everyman decency onscreen, but he actually is that guy.

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.

You'd be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work.

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.

My favorite question is 'What do you do?' I'm like, 'I'm a walking cliche: I'm a model and an actress.'

I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.

You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.

Hollywood has been an enormous part of my life, as I know it has been for countless fans all over the world.

You throw a rock in Hollywood and you're going to hit someone in the film industry.

I think it's hard for anyone to get into real estate or Hollywood.

Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out years ago.

[on Hollywood] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.

I was disillusioned by Hollywood at the time, but now I've come to accept that's just the way things are: it's called show business, not show art.

The one thing I have found about Hollywood is it's a town full of people who believe in themselves, often to a degree where they're what you would call "delusional."

It's a chain of accidents. When you step into Hollywood, you wind yourself into thousands of chains of accidents. If all of the thousands happen to come out exactly right-and the chance of that figures out to be one in eight million-then you'll be a star.

There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.