The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you’re visually massive or somehow you’re in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.
I’m always a little starstruck anyway. So to work with a movie star, which is Brad, I was excited about that; to work with a movie legend, which is Tony, I wouldn’t have passed that up. Just to get to watch him and watch how he works.
Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don’t think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don’t have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they’re a movie star.
Denzel Washington is a big Hollywood movie star now. But he started out as an actor in the Negro Ensemble company.
I never really thought I wanted to become a movie star.
There’s no slow build anymore where you get a little part, then you get a little better part, then a better part, until one day your agent calls you us and says, ‘guess what, you’re a movie star,’ and you say, ‘Thank you!’
I don’t walk around like I’m a movie star because I don’t think of myself as a movie star. People usually don’t even notice me.
People sometimes say, ‘Oh, you were a movie star,’ and I’m like, ‘No, I was a supporting actress.’ I wasn’t an A-list actress, and I’m fine with that. I’m proud of what I did in film.
I looked in the mirror and saw a lot of stuff, but ‘movie star’ was never one of them.
For me, I’m always looking for opportunities to work with people who are better than me, who are more experienced than me, people from whom I can learn. And who could I learn more from than someone with an unprecedented movie star career that has spanned over thirty years whose name is Tom Cruise?
I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films.
When I was just a girl in Sydney, no one thought, ‘Oh, she’s going to be a movie star.’ No one. I had to get by with actual skill and talent.
In the future, I want to do an action movie! I’m going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
When you start to become a movie star it’s easy to believe that you are Superman. That can fool you. That’s why I prefer not to pay much attention to fame.
I’m going to college. I don’t care if it ruins my career. I’d rather be smart than a movie star.
You are only an actor if you absolutely love it and can not do anything else. Starving for your art is great in your 20s, but it’s not so great at 35. It has to be absolute love. You can’t worry about being a movie star or anything else. Just love. That’s it.
I don’t really care to be a movie star.
I am a movie star.
Sergio Leone came to see me when I was doing ‘Mission Impossible.’ He wanted me to do ‘A Fistful of Dollars.’ I turned him down. I didn’t want to get stuck as a stoic Western movie star.
Being a writer – even a best-selling one – is usually not anywhere near as public as being a movie star, at least not when I’m out in ‘real life’ like this. Not that I don’t use what fame I have, every chance I get, to help sell more books.
I didn’t end her career. She chose to have children, then to make the simple choice that everyone should make really. You can’t be a movie star and have children and not have one of the two suffer.
My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don’t be ridiculous. Maybe it’s because I’m British. To me, Julia Roberts that’s a movie star. But when people do call me one, that, I think, is an enormous compliment but, my God, is that a responsibility!
I want to be the best actor that I can be; I want to be working in this business absolutely, and if that means being a movie star, then OK, that’s fine. But to me, movie star, celebrity, all that stuff means something very different than being an actor.
The people in L.A. do orient themselves to light. I used to call it ‘Tan Fascist Culture.’ Everyone there is tanned, wears dark sunglasses, looks like a movie star even when they’re not.
I am not a movie star or a football player, I just do my thing.
It wasn’t a mission to be a rock star. It wasn’t a mission of mine to even be a movie star. I just intended to be a good actor.
People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
The point of being a movie star is that people cast you in a role. Actors tie themselves in knots trying to get out of that.
J. Lo, whether she is good or bad, is like a fiery movie star, a throwback to Elizabeth Taylor in her heyday.
I never wanted to be a movie star.
I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn’t impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert; he was like a second father.
My uncle was a gangster in the real gangster days. I witnessed it, I felt it, I smelt it the situation, I was involved. It was like knowing a movie star.
I know I’m not a hotly in-demand movie star, but I’m good at my job. And I want to keep working for the next 40 years.
I had wanted to be a movie star and had thought I would be a movie star since I was very little. It was just something I saw in my future. But somehow when it happened, I wasn’t ready for it.
I never said I wanted to be a movie star.
I think being a rock star is a little bit different than being an athlete or even a movie star.
I would’ve been a really big silent movie star.
It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.
If you know the filmmaker is good and the leading actor is a movie star like Diane Lane, you know you’re part of something great.
I wasn’t straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals.
Denzel’s all about the work. He’s all about the acting. He’s an actor. He’ll tell you himself, ‘I’m not a movie star, celebrity, something else. I’m an actor.’ He steps on a set, that’s what he is, and that’s what he gives you. He gives his heart.
Robert Preston in ‘The Last Starfighter’ had an aura. It was almost a surreal experience meeting him. He exuded charm, warmth and that movie star magnetism that is impossible to describe.
I had no delusions about myself. I couldn’t act – I had never acted. So how could I be a movie star?
A composer’s a pretty lonely life. When people talk about premieres and movie star – no. We sit in a dark room and spend a lot of time alone.
I’ve learnt to separate the woman who was my mother from the person who was a movie star. The star has survived, my mother didn’t.
If you’re a movie star, you get the girl, you lose the girl, and then you get her back. But if you’re a character like me, you lose the girl, then you get another one, then you get another one, then you lose them all, then you lose your life.
Every actor thinks he’s underused – unless he’s a movie star.
I will be the biggest WWE Superstar the WWE has ever seen. I will be the biggest movie star movies have ever seen. I will be the biggest TV star that TV has ever seen. I will be the biggest person in the world.
It’s easy to be a movie star. The shoes are already there. They just put you in the shoes.
I’ve made $50 million over the years as a movie star, if you’ll pardon the expression, and I’ve given most of it to the bookies.
A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.
Who cares if a movie star has an opinion unless the person is very well informed?
There’s no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.
I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve.
Everyone wants to be a movie star or a model, to be in the papers, but few realise just what hard work it is, getting up early, and so on.
I’m not trying necessarily to become a movie star; that wouldn’t be bad but that’s not the aim. I’m just trying to do interesting things and go into areas where I’ve not been before.
I could never be a movie star and get up at 7:30 to be at someone else’s studio.
I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they’re just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.
I’ve been in movies where so much of the conversation was about, ‘Well, after this movie, you’re gonna be the biggest movie star.’ I sort of have learned that you never really can predict any of that.
I recently found out about this other super movie star. He only works from about 11:00 to 4:00, so all his movies take like 120 days. But this was a lot of stuff to do in 35 days.
I had no dream of being a movie star.
People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.
Hell, I might want to be like some other people and become a movie star or join the UFC. You never know.
