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We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.

Hollywood is just like high school. The popular people only like the other popular people. And the thing is, some people aren't nice - or they're nice, but only to your face, not elsewhere.

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.

Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

I didn't come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don't want to be considered a cool actor - I want to be a great actor.

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.

How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.

Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department.

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.

There are thousands of directors in Hollywood.

I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood.

I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.

I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.