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Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

My faith doesn't go over real well in Hollywood.

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.

The criteria, for me, is movie star. It's Hollywood. Not Somalia.

I am a child of Hollywood and dreams. To me, to be on the red carpet is the best place in the world.

I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

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.

In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.

I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.

I've chosen not to live in Hollywood, and instead I live in Brooklyn, New York. It's how I like to live. I'd rather hang out with my kids and family when I'm not working. Going to premieres is not my idea of a fun night out.

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have OK teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already.

I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.

Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.

Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.

I don't think about Hollywood at all.

Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.