There are only three ages for women in Hollywood -- Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.
-- Goldie Hawn (First Wives Club, 1996, Olivia Goldsmith, Robert Harling)

The only 'ism' Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
-- Dorothy Parker

He reminded me a little of Walt Disney's version of a mad scientist.
-- Steven Spielberg (on Star Wars Director George Lucas)

The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.
-- Steven Spielberg (Time, 1979)

They've great respect for the dead in Hollywood, but none for the living.
-- Errol Flynn

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.
-- Joseph E. Levine

In Beverly Hills...they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.
-- Woody Allen

Hosting the Oscars is like making love to a beautiful woman - it's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal's out of town.
-- Steve Martin (at the 2001 Oscars)

They used to shoot her through gauze. You should shoot me through linoleum.
-- Tallulah Bankhead referring to Shirley Temple)

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
-- William Faulkner