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"Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom."
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"Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism."
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"As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around."
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"I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest."
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"It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out."
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"Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting."
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"An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer."
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"I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals."
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"In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom."
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"Hollywood is a world all its own."
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"You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood."
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"People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart."
Beauty
"I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now."
Life
"I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread."
Mom
"I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out."
Woman
"Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior."
Beauty
"It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too."
Woman
"I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot."
Today
"Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while."
Beauty
"I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles."
Age
"At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance."
Age
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