You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake¹ closeness so well.

Carrie Fisher (1956 - )

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

Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)

You can take all the sincerity² in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

Fred Thompson, Speech before the Commonwealth³ Club of California

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962)

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts⁴ milk.

Rita Rudner

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

Walter Winchell (1897 - 1972)