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

"They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood"

"Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago"

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul"

"TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains"

"Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel"

"Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild"

"What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing"

"Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom"

"I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market"

"Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool"