"Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place"

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

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

"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"

"The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend"

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