And Still Have Enough Room for Three Caraway Seeds and a Producer's Heart

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California is a great place – if you happen to be an orange. Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars. – Fred Allen

Hollywood is like Picasso’s bedroom. – Candace Bergen

I believe that God felt sorry for actors so He created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. – Sir Cedric Hardwicke

Hollywood is a sewer – with service from the Ritz Carlton. – Wilson Mizner

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic. No sound at all but the popping of the California poppies. – Adolph Zukor

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

To survive in Hollywood you need: the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary; the ego of a grand opera tenor; and the physical stamina of a cow pony. – Billie Burke

Los Angeles is a city with the personality of a paper cup. – Raymond Chandler

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