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Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?

Hollywood is not good when it comes to age.

I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things like that.

It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and it will expand into more than one production house.

But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.

Hollywood is kind of a bad world.

I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.

Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.

I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.

I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.

I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.

Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.

A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific.

I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.

But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.

I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.

There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.

In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.