Elsa Maxwell Quotes

I treat Hollywood as my high school.

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.

People love things about Hollywood. People love to see the inside of what's going on.

Hollywood's a very weird place. I think there's less of everything except for attitude.

The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

There's a certain thought process about actors that they are in Hollywood and they sit around pools and get suntans and just get offered jobs.

The first red carpet I did was at New York's Paris Theatre... It was this beautiful night, and everyone is screaming my name. I'm the least pretentious actress you can ever meet. Someone said to me that I look like I've been doing this forever, and I said that's because I watch E!

I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.

Red carpets are awful. They're like a kind of purgatory - you stand there, and there are cameras flashing everywhere. One of my first red carpets was in Cannes for 'The Great Gatsby,' and I'd never seen anything like it.

I don't do movie junket-y things, because I don't really do movies that much.

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

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

I'm not a movie guy. I don't know all this stuff that comes with celebrity. I don't know who the actors will be and stuff like that. But anybody who wants to talk about the issues - that's great.

I've found that Hollywood's a really honest business. They don't pull any punches. They tell you exactly what you want-I want the fake breasts and the flat car and the big pool. You know, they're real up-front about it.

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."

Show business is like Champagne. You'll appreciate it more if you don't drink it everyday

Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe.

I don't go to parties and all that. I don't think being seen or being in the right place is going to make me a better actress. I care about my work and try to do what's right in my heart.

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.

Making movies is just as much of a game. They say Hollywood is like high school with money.

There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.

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

Showbiz is great if you're successful.

They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates.