Superficial Society Quotes

I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.

If a Martian came down to Earth and watched television, he'd come to conclusion that all the world's society is based on Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. He'd be amazed that our society hasn't collapsed.

I love California; everything is so artificial.

A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters

I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.

There is a city in which you find everything you desire-handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind-all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.

I lived in L.A. for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.

In L.A., everybody ain't so nice.

What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities.

Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder. The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown.

My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.

A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are superficial and whose daily life is captured by sentimentalities. They will ask questions like “why does a good God let bad things happen to good people ” such people cannot imagine that a people once existed who produced and sang the psalms. If we learn to say “God ” we will do so with the prayer “My God my God why have you forsaken me?

I've found, being in Los Angeles, it's like living in a live-action Planet Hollywood.

Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.