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"Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood."
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"Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse."
"I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter."
"Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks."
"Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting."
"I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard."
"I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me."
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"My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?"
"I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent."
"People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different."
"My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised."
"I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year."
"We've always been involved with America - I have a son who lives there and it's a big part of my life."
"Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering."
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