Gary Cooper Quotes

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.

In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.

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.

[On Hollywood:] I had gone there expecting to see parties that reflected the stock-in-trade of the movies - glamour. Instead, I found the same attitude toward parties that European peasants had for baths. It was something to be done methodically every Saturday night.

There are a lot of wannabe men in Hollywood. But when you have that Hollywood mentality, there aren't a lot of real, grounded people.

Friendship formed in the glamour industry comes with mutual benefits, which is nice, but it is not the real deal.

Hollywood is silly sometimes.

Honestly, I try to stay away from the famous chicks and L.A. girls in general.

You know how it is in L.A. You go to restaurants at four in the afternoon, and they're packed because everyone is an actor, and no one is working.

I don't really miss the Hollywood lifestyle.

I feel like, especially in Hollywood, you meet people with ulterior motives, who are trying to get something from you.

I'm not the Hollywood type of person.

If I had stayed in Hollywood, I would have killed myself. Or someone would have done it for me.

My real difficulty was to become a normal person again, after having been a movie actress for so long. For me, at the time I was living in New York and Hollywood, a normal person was someone who made movies.

I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music. I'm as Hollywood as it gets. Not internally but externally - that's my bloodline.

I always felt that Hollywood has a way of making you feel outside.

The one thing you can count on in Hollywood - across the board - is cowardice.

I hated Hollywood. It’s a town without pity. Only success counts. I know of no other place in the world where so many people suffer from nervous breakdowns, where there are so many alcoholics, neurotics and so much unhappiness.

In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an actor. I don't think there's a real person left in the place.

I used to live in Los Angeles, but I didn't want my kids to grow up in the thick of the obsession with movie-making. There's a lot of sensationalism and superficiality. I wanted to take my kids out of that and raise 'em up elsewhere, and I wanted to stop being preoccupied with whether my star is on the rise or the descent. I can't imagine having a much greater life, and I don't want to be preoccupied with things that don't matter. But of course, ironically, my two oldest daughters have decided that they're going to be actresses.

In Hollywood, you can't say anything bad about anybody or everyone is going to attack you.

Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.

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

Fame is probably the most unadorable thing about acting.

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."