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In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for.

I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.

I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.

I've continued to always keep in mind having a healthy does of that in Hollywood, now that I am part of the system and obviously have to follow the way the system works - you still have to have that crazy determination.

I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America.

I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter.

I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals.

Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs.

Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.

Julia Roberts is a favorite. Everybody loves her in the Hollywood community. The public adores her.

Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right.

I still don't consider myself as going Hollywood. I did a movie because the opportunity presented itself and it was fun. When everything stops being fun, I'll go onto something else.

The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.

My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.

When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset.

Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.

And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press.

Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.