Hollywood Quotes

“Blaise rather liked the way that manners had been pared down to their essentials.”
― Gore Vidal, Hollywood: American Chronicle Series

“But then almost everyone nowadays had two lives, his own and his life at the movies.”
― Gore Vidal, Hollywood: American Chronicle Series

“Movies were not there simply to reflect life or tell stories but to exist in their own autonomous way and to look, as it were, back at those who made them and watched them.”
― Gore Vidal, Hollywood: American Chronicle Series

“As the great questions were always posed in the same way, they invited answers that were equally predictable and unchanging.”
― Gore Vidal, Hollywood: American Chronicle Series

“Emma took everything in stride. Whether this was a sign of intelligence or of perfect indifference, Caroline could not fathom.”
― Gore Vidal, Hollywood: American Chronicle Series