So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.

I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening.

So in those days, they were scooping up any young person who could sing and look decent, ah, at the same time.

I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.

I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.

The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.

And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived.

And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.

It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.

I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.

So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.

It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies.

We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.

I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.

Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they'll go to see them. It's still the same.

I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.

It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.

The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.

Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to.

I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.

Hollywood is kind of a bad world.

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

I don't think I ever understood Hollywood.

I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress.

Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.

A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific.

Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.

Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story.

Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.

Hollywood is a world all its own.

Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood.

What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.

If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine's Day. I said no.

In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.

There are plenty of lesbians in Hollywood, but they're not out. And that's their choice, but I can't do that, it's too important to me.

After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.

What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing.

No one has a closest friend in Hollywood.

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

Acting coaches in Hollywood were always telling me to use my hands and body more. But that was never me. I just breathe and sometimes it doesn't look as if I'm doing that.

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.

The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood's box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place.

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

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

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.