Hollywood Illusion Quotes

Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees.

Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic.

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.

Too many Broadway actors in motion pictures lost their grip on success--had a feeling that none of it had ever happened on that sun-drenched coast, that the coast itself did not exist, there was no California. It had dropped away like a hasty dream and nothing could ever have been like the things they thought they remembered.

In LA, you think you're making something up, but it's making you up.

Hollywood is an illusion. These intense workplaces, with very close relationships, a few months at a time - and then it ends.

Hollywood has nothing to do with real life.

Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.

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

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.

It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like, you don't want to live there.

In Hollywood, you kind of trick yourself into feeling like you have impact.

The whole city gives you the impression of impermanence. You have the feeling that one day someone is going to yell, "Cut! Strike it!" and then the stagehands will scurry out and remove the mountains, the movie-star homes, the Hollywood Bowl--everything.