"Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are"

"A company is only as good as the people it keeps"

"Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre"

"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"

"Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it"

"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"