The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.

Where is this Hollywood scene, where is it? I'd like to find it one day... If I want to go out and have a good time, I go to New York.

And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.

I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.

I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.

It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.

In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.