Jess Walter Quotes

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

Let's be honest, I don't think anyone ever wants to settle down in Hollywood - it's a place you go to work. And once you've hit it, you get out of there as soon as you can. It's definitely not a place you want to get married and have kids.

You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.

I don't necessarily need Hollywood.

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.

I am an outsider looking in, absolutely. You're not going to see me at the Academy Awards 'Vanity Fair' party any time soon. I'm not somebody who, no matter where I go, there are paparazzi or any of that nonsense. But I have a little window into that world, and I can enter it and dance around. I want to be the audience's ticket into the party.

Hollywood is kind of a bad world.

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!

I've always had a lot of ambivalence about fame and celebrity.

It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world.

Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice.

I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.

And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.

It's inconceivable to some people that that wouldn't be the sexiest thing to do in the whole world: to be a movie star, and make money, and be pampered, and whatever.

I am a child of Hollywood and dreams. To me, to be on the red carpet is the best place in the world.

The criteria, for me, is movie star. It's Hollywood. Not Somalia.

You know, back when I was a kid who wanted to be in show business, everybody on TV wore nice clothes. They were very glamorous when they would be on the 'Tonight Show.' All the dudes wore suits and ties and that just seemed like real show business to me.

In Hollywood, you grow up quick.

What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.

When one deals with stars, he is dealing with intelligent people. If they weren't intelligent, they wouldn't have arrived at the star pinnacle.

Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.