Pastoral Resources

I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.

If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.

All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn't understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting.

Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.

Hollywood has lost an enormous amount of quality.

I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood.

I never took to Hollywood.

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

Maybe when I'm 75 and living in the south of France, after everyone I want to bitch about is already dead, then I may want to talk about my life in Hollywood.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.

If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?

Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.

I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood.

Well, I was getting a lot of money then, and I wasn't getting any Hollywood films, so I just did those. I'd always do a play in between. Whenever I ran low on funds, I'd always rush off to do a movie somewhere.

What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.