Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle.

I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.

Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth.

What the Bleep Do We Know was not written with a deaf person in mind, but when they met me, it clicked with them to have me in it. But that happens with a lot of actors in Hollywood, not just with me.

I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.