"I don't take Hollywood too seriously. I have kids that don't give a damn about what I'm shooting, they just want dinner. So that keeps me grounded."
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"As a woman who works in a male-dominated business - Hollywood, definitely, being one of them - I instinctually knew what that is like. You have to be strong and take care of yourself."
"Once you figure out what your own thing is it's all about trying to develop shows, programs that can, I guess, enhance what you already have and what you can add to Hollywood."
"Ever since they found out that Lassie was a boy, the public has believed the worst about Hollywood"
"I think that if Hollywood has a problem, it constantly underestimates the intelligence and integrity of fans."
"After Hollywood, you know if people are interested in you or in the fact that you've been in a movie. You know who your real friends are."
"Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement."
"There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it."
"I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead!"
"There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life."
"Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make that any man anywhere."
"Hollywood is so strange because a lot of times the battlefield is just a meeting. It's not necessarily like an audition. They've seen clips of you and they know that you can perform and it's a matter of "what is your take on a character"?"
"For the most part Hollywood is a world of imagination."
"The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood."
"I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff."
"When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy."
"I'm in Hollywood right now, surrounded by nothing but the sons and grandsons of movie stars."
"Hollywood is a great place if you're an orange."
"One of the myths about Dad was that he was mean. That simply wasn't true. I always found him generous to a fault but he wasn't reckless with his money, which was rather rare in Hollywood. He'd grown up with nothing and he wasn't about to fritter it all away."
"When you reach a certain status in Hollywood, you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It becomes more about being famous than being an actor."