On Hollywood

“In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.” Rita Rudner

“Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.” Lionel Barrymore

“It's a scientific fact. For every year a person lives in Hollywood, they lose two points of their IQ.” Truman Capote

“You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.” Fred Allen

“Hollywood is a dreary industrial town controlled by hoodlums of enormous wealth, the ethical sense of a pack of jackals, and taste so degraded that it befouled everything it touched.” S.J. Perelman

“Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.”Marilyn Monroe

“In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.” Johnny Carson

“Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.” Marlon Brando