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Cynical Definitions

n. A region populated by professional liars of an order that celebrates dysfunctional behavior.

Cynical Quotations

It’s hard to tell where Hollywood ends and the DTs begin.

— W.C. Fields

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

— Fred Thompson

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

— Fred Allen

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

— Marilyn Monroe

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

— Oscar Levant

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

— Carrie Fisher

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

— Rita Rudner

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

— Walter Winchell

Small towns in the United States are the repositories of American nostalgia. The big cities are laboratories of American pathology. For pathological nostalgia, we have Hollywood.

— William Ferraiolo