I never took to Hollywood.
I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood.
Hollywood has lost an enormous amount of quality.
Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.
All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn't understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting.
If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.
I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.
I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.
I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.
My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.
The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.
In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.
Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.
Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems.
The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set.