Fred Allen Quotes

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

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

Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.

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

Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.

I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!

You have to be a little unreal to be in this business.

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

When you're a kid, you read about this glamorous acting world, but actually it's really unglamorous.

I've always said it ain't 'Show Friends.' It's 'Show Business.'

I don't work for Hollywood.

In L.A. everyone is in the entertainment industry, so you're forced to think about work.

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.

I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that.

I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

I have this mistress: show business.

I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.

Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.

I'd always wanted to be an actress or a model or a singer.

I moved to L.A., and I lived in the Oakland Apartments, which is this notorious hub for actor children and their stage moms. For the first few years that I lived there, Hilary Duff and Frankie Muniz frequented the apartments. I was much younger than them at the time.

Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.

When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.

I don't necessarily need Hollywood.

I hate show business.