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A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves.

Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.

I'm still ambivalent about Hollywood. I think that's why I made 'Star 80.' To deal with the ambivalence. I really wanted to succeed Gene Kelly, and I thought it was a fair bet.

In the studios days, the public's perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they're no longer perceived as different - they've become human, so to speak.

I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star.

But at the end of the day, every star, every person that been iconic, has gone through a time in their lives where it was just bad. Everybody. It just made them better.

The star thing, the celebrity thing, is new to me.

I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood.

Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department.