Top 185 Movie Star Quotes

I didn’t start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.

I did not try to conform to anybody’s ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.

You can be mediocre, the way most actors are, and you can still be a top movie star, even if your movies are boring and predictable. All you have to do is know how to sell yourself, let yourself be manufactured.

I don’t want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, ‘There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.’ But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.

I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.

I hate receiving compliments; I hate being told I’m talented or people think I’m going to be a movie star. I always feel that it’s forced and fake.

People – I hate to use the word ‘fans’ – are very respectful. It’s not like I’m some pop idol or big movie star. I’m very approachable, and I love the people who enjoy me, because they react like they’ve run into a friend. Usually, it’s like, ‘Hey, Wanda! How ya’ doing?’

I look around at my peers, and I’m so blown away by their talent and their beauty and their cool style, as well as their ability to be an actress and be a movie star and be good at it. I mean, they’re so good, and we’re all trying to get the same parts.

I like cake, I swear a lot, and I hardly ever go to the hairdresser. I don’t think I’m a movie star.

I’m not an actor who is trying to be a movie star.

I am an actress. I am not a movie star.

I was in California, and I was going to UCLA, and I knew I certainly didn’t have movie star looks. I remember seeing pictures and photos of Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, who were kind of average looking. I said, ‘Well, that’s for me, then, to go back to New York and try to be in musical comedy on Broadway.’

The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president.

I don’t think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I’m not a movie star.

I don’t have real big aspirations to be a movie star. I would love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up playing a defining role.

The truth is, ever since I was little, I’ve wanted to be an actor more than I ever wanted to be a movie star.

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

There’s been one movie star that would not work with me because of my height. I had so many people who had to stand on boxes when they do scenes with me.

When you’re a movie star and you’re young, you are always playing someone who’s a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.

I never wanted to be a movie star because it takes up too much of your time. I prefer the style of touring and making new music.

I don’t want to be Angelina Jolie. Not that Angelina Jolie is not the most talented, beautiful, successful, amazing, admirable person who does good things for the world, but I don’t want to be a movie star like that.

Corporate Hollywood thinks I’m a geek to go back and do theater. They don’t understand why I don’t want to be a movie star, why I’m not pursuing Mel Gibson’s roles.

I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though – I didn’t know anything about films.

When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family ties to the theatre, either.

In the movie ‘Star Trek 3: The Return of Spock,’ I’m a really bad Klingon, and I really enjoyed playing that – somebody who’s totally unscrupulous. It’s like he was not genetically equipped to feel compassion or sensitivity. Just outright evil without apology.

I’m going to be a movie star, break Hollywood.

It is very difficult for any couple who are married if both people are ambitious. I don’t know if it’s just too hard to be married to a woman that wants to be a movie star.

If I thought of myself as a movie star, I’d be an idiot. I don’t know anyone who thinks like that. I don’t even know movie stars who think like that.

During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people’s careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot.

You know, we weren’t a Hollywood family. I didn’t grow up in a home with screening rooms and my mother didn’t behave like a movie star.

Warren Beatty has always acted like a Movie Star even when no one knew who he was.

I was named Margaret Yvonne. ‘Margaret’ because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own.

I think the fantasy of being a movie star is more powerful than the reality. So, for me, even if it’s not a great film or a great play I’m doing, to know that you went for it. You had an experience that made you grow artistically and personally. What’s really satisfying is knowing that you did a good job.

If you’re a movie star, there’s a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you’re used, and then you’re discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence.

If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.

Rather than emulate the girls I grew up with who made fun of me, I decided I wanted to look like a movie star. It was like an escape.

I used to want to be a movie star so I wouldn’t have to live in trailers anymore. And now that I make movies, I spend a lot of my life living in trailers.

I’m not a movie star, and I don’t want to become a movie star.

My entire generation has grown up in the shadow of one movie: ‘Star Wars.’

If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies – and I have a nice house, a nice car. I’m fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good.

Everybody perceives me because of my career that I’m a movie star, or I’m this model, but I’m still the same person I was when I was a little girl.

I’m not a movie star. People know me, but they don’t necessarily know what they know me for. I get recognised, but it’s not like Justin Bieber. It’s a nice thing, people are cool.

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who’d get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.

In our day we went from – we went into saloons. We couldn’t cross over like you can today, get a television series and all of a sudden you’re a major movie star, you know.

People have to learn that everybody is the same. If you wake up in the morning, even if you’re a movie star, you look like everybody else. The reality is that makeup is there to help. That’s what it’s for.

There aren’t a lot of movie star males around my age that I can play opposite.

You can’t be an openly gay movie star. You can’t be an openly gay pop star, really – minus Ricky Martin.

I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It’s too ambitious for me.

A movie star is someone people look at and go, ‘I want to be like that person’. There’s the responsibility of desire. It’s not something I’m interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother?

At the Golden Globes, they put all the bigger stars in the front; the movie stars in the front, TV actors in the back. But even as a movie star, you can be outseated by a bigger star in any given year. It’s kind of hilarious. You have to take it in stride.

Realistically, it’s the great truism that screenwriters are fungible, that at the end of the day a studio is not going to want to fire a movie star. And they’re really not going to want to fire a star director because the director has the hand on the tiller of a ship.

I have been considerably picky for somebody who’s not a movie star, and sometimes I get frustrated.

I’d love to be a movie star. That’d be great. But I lost the looks awhile ago. They slipped right through my hands like sand in an hourglass.

I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

I don’t think about being famous, really. Being an author, I don’t generally get stopped as I walk down the street. It’s not like being a movie star.

If you’re going to be a movie star, you should live like one.

Katherine Heigl was a movie star. I thought she was going to be one, and it was fun to watch this young actress getting better every day.

What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats… or skinny.