Pastoral Resources

The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal.

Commuting from New York to Hollywood to do this show gets more interesting every week. Before I used to think the country was just New York on one end and Los Angeles on the other, with sand and mountains in the middle.

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star.

In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce.

You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood.

I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter.

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.

I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.

Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.

I had some connections from the newspapers that I did work with up there, so there was a newspaper publisher in Hollywood, and they promised me work and so on.

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.

Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.

People in Hollywood don't have that much sex, or at least I don't.

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.

It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.

I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.