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The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.

I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it.

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.

Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.

Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood.

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

How did I get to Hollywood? By train.

Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.

I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.

I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.

And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.

In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.

If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is.

They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.