We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.
I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter.
I mean, it's fun to go out and do stuff in Hollywood, but if it was gone tomorrow, I really wouldn't be disappointed.
Sometimes, I wonder where my place in this town called 'Hollywood' is - and that can give you a really dull headache.
I do like musical films more than big Hollywood films, especially those by Jacques Demi and Vincent Minelli.
I told everybody that I was going to be an actress in Hollywood one day. People looked at me like I was crazy.
I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.
I don't go to a lot of parties or do a lot of going out within, like, the Hollywood circle or celebrity-type circles and things like that.
It's not just people in Hollywood: I'm sure everyone in the world thinks, 'What would be it like if I won an Oscar?'
I know a couple of my friends - quite a few - there is a conservative movement in Hollywood, and we kind of stay amongst ourselves.
Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.
I was told that if I wanted to be a leading man in Hollywood, I couldn't possibly be thought of as gay.
In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.
I wasn't an actor. They they take the externals. Here I was, a kid thrown into Hollywood with a brand-new name, starring in motion pictures.
I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens.
So much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it.
As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.
I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.
Catherine Zeta-Jones started out like me. Her big break in Hollywood was in 'Zorro.'
As you know, Hollywood loves to pigeonhole all the actors and actresses, and suddenly I got 're-pigeonholed' as an action actor.
Hollywood is the most superficial thing you could possibly be a part of and if I weren't attractive I wouldn't be working at all.
