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Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.

In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.

I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star.

Unfortunately, all the cliches we see about Hollywood are true.

Working in Hollywood can be tumultuous, with incredible highs and lows and you need to be grounded.

Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It's not going to do me any good.

My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.

There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.

It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.

You know, it's not the people in Hollywood who go to see movies that will make a movie successful; it's the people all around the country; it's word-of-mouth.

I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas. I never would have imagined that one day I would follow one of those clouds and find myself in Hollywood.

In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly.

At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.

Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.

It'd be like what would happen if Hollywood took over porno: 'If we keep their clothes on and they didn't have sex, we'd be able to sell it to a lot more people'.