Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.

It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.

People in Hollywood don't have that much sex, or at least I don't.

Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.

I had some connections from the newspapers that I did work with up there, so there was a newspaper publisher in Hollywood, and they promised me work and so on.

Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.

I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress.

I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter.

You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood.

In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce.