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The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.

— Olivia De Havilland

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it's a wonderful business but it's make-believe, you must remember that. That's one of the most important things to remember and the distinction in your own life, otherwise people get lost in their own fame, and it makes them unhappy.

— Dolph Lundgren

Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.

— John Schlesinger

You know, Hollywood is a very interesting town - always has been, always will be.

— Zachary Levi

Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.

— Josh Gad

I have to lead a very small life in terms of what people think 'Hollywood' is. It's a full life for me, but I'm not jetting across the world. But life is good.

— Octavia Spencer

Hollywood is a very hard place to be in. It really is.

— Amber Riley

We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.

— David Mamet

The truth is that I got to Hollywood, and I didn't know what to do once I got there.

— Peter Capaldi

Hollywood is a challenging place; it's very easy for people to lose their heads. Fortunately, I grew up on it and I think I have a little bit of a head start.

— Troian Bellisario

✗Opposing Perspectives

Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a little provincial and insular.

— Howard Stringer