“I did not come to Hollywood in the first place because there were fame, riches, and glamour to be gained here. I came here because this is the place where pictures are made, many of them very excellent, and I felt that here was opportunity for the actress.”
Ingrid Bergman

“Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry, a marketing industry.”
Brian Cox

“I don't care for the movie racket much in England, but in Hollywood it is much worse.”
Noel Pierce Coward

“I look at going to Hollywood as going behind enemy lines. You parachute in, set up the explosion, then fly out before it goes off.”
Robert Redford

“My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.”
James Woods