Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.

In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are.

In leaving Hollywood and coming to New York, I feel I can be more myself. After all, if I can't be myself, what's the good of being anything at all?

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyor belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.

Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played. Hollywood created a superstar, and pain was the price you paid.