Artur Davis Quotes

The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

In real life you are doomed if you believe in youth and money, but not here in Hollywood. Nothing is what it seems.

Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.

You just want fame so bad. You want success so bad. You just believe anybody who conjures up a pretty contract and they're telling you all these sweet nothings I guess.

It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside.

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

My impression was, 'This Hollywood thing doesn't seem too hard.'

One of the weird things about Hollywood is we're all imposters; we're all just glammed up.

From the age of 8, I learned that nothing in the entertainment industry is real. It's all fake. Your face, your clothes, what you say - it's all a fake.

Hollywood is kind of a bad world.

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.

The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.

I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again.

The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.