Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .
I think everyone has different challenges as a young actress in Hollywood.
Hollywood is a great place if you're an orange.
I stuck around in Hollywood for too long. I was there a long time, and when I left, I was smart enough to realise that what I was leaving was not just the movie business. I wanted to get rid of the whole atmosphere.
When I'm back at home it's just reality. I kind of separate myself from Hollywood.
Hollywood is a strange, strange thing. I feel like I've been invited to a very exclusive ball and I'm just trying to make nice with everybody and hope that if they kick me out they'll at least give me a ride home.
Living in Hollywood, you can get disconnected from everybody. You can feel like you are the only one.
Deep down, I think I would be utterly miserable in Hollywood.
Hollywood is a very hard place to be in. It really is.
There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.
The Da Vinci Code' was a great experience and I was lucky to be chosen, but I don't like the pressure that goes with all these big things. I don't want to be any more famous at all.
It was kind of good that I wasn't doing the Hollywood high life and stuff like that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21.
I don't find the life in Hollywood all that meaningful or inspiring.
Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn't really be interesting to me.
Everywhere I go, people ask me about Jennifer Aniston's wedding. Everywhere I go. I always say to her, I'm like, 'Being friends with you is a burden. You think it's hard to be friends with me?'
I don't live in the Hollywood bubble. I never have and I never will.
I'm living in Hollywood, and I'm making movies, but it goes beyond me. If my family is not doing very well, or even OK, you want them to be better.
When I was 23, I went to work for Jack Nicholson reading scripts. Later, I was married to a production designer named Richard Sylbert. So I lived in Los Angeles for ten years.
I always wanted to be a movie star. I thought it meant being famous and having breakfast in bed. I didn't know you had to be up at 4:00 a.m.
I feel like every movie is definitely the last one that I've had my moment; that I'm going to be selling autographs at malls.
So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.
It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.
Once I realized the emptiness of life apart from knowing God, when I embraced God and the truth of the gospel and the truth of the Bible, it was a no-brainer decision to see that that was a treasure that was infinitely more valuable than some sort of an atheistic Hollywood party life.
I have had quite an interesting life. My husband was quite successful in the movies, and we went out frequently with Gloria Swanson and other stars.
