I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.

Quote by Ben Hecht

Topics: Hollywood Quotes

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like...

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like...

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety

In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak...

In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak...

Love is a hole in the heart.

Love is a hole in the heart.

We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members...

We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members...

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required...

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required...

We are going to make sure that there is high-speed broadband available to everyone, and...

We are going to make sure that there is high-speed broadband available to everyone, and...

I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than...

I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than...

In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not...

In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not...

Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep...

Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep...

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much...

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much...

Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At...

Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At...

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of...

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of...

There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do...

There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do...

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt...

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt...

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the...

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the...

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we...

Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we...

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is...

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is...

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using...

Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using...