Joe Gillis

"Every morning you tell yourself today's the day you leave."

"Nobody here wants the truth. They want comfortable lies."

"I was a fool to think I could beat the system."

"The only thing worse than failure here is success."

"I can see it all clearly now. It's too late to see clearly now."

"Hollywood is a disease. I should have refused the cure."

"I'm writing a screenplay about a woman who shoots a man who's trying to leave her. It practically writes itself."

"You know, the funny thing about show business is that nobody really wants to hear the truth."

"We're all pretty much the same, just trying to survive in this town."

"Success in Hollywood isn't about talent—it's about knowing the right people and saying the right things."

"I came here with big dreams, like everyone else. Now I'm just trying to pay the rent."

"The swimming pool was nice while it lasted."

"In this business, your past has a way of catching up with you."

"She was beautiful, rich, and completely mad. What's not to love?"

"I should have taken the bus back to Ohio when I had the chance."

"Money makes people do terrible things."

"There's nothing worse than being forgotten in a town built on memory."

"I wanted to write something that mattered. Instead, I wrote garbage."

"She needed someone to love her. I needed to pay my bills. We both got what we wanted."

"The pool was the only honest thing about the place."

"You come to this town thinking you're different. You're not."

"Addiction is just another word for being trapped."

"I was a fool, but at least I was a well-fed fool."

"Beauty can be a prison if you let it."

"Time doesn't heal anything in Hollywood. It just makes you more desperate."

"She had everything except the one thing she really wanted—love."

"I've learned that integrity is a luxury most people can't afford."

"The real horror isn't the violence. It's the emptiness."

"I told myself I was just borrowing money. I was lying."

"Success means nothing if you have to sell your soul for it."