I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.
When I was 18, I drove from New York to California to be a movie star. Not an actor, mind you, but a movie star. Have you ever heard of anything so silly?
I’m not a millionaire, a billionaire, a CEO, or a movie star.
I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
Everybody wants to be a movie star. I bet if you ask that guy would he like to be a movie star, he’d say, ‘Sure.’
My dad was a movie star. Having that name was good and bad. People think it’s a silver spoon. It’s not.
If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that’s what I did.
I think it’s so funny when people think they can’t control a movie star. They can. We’re just women, you know.
It’s so odd because I don’t even know if I’m cut out for it, but being a movie star guy, I sort of end up gravitating toward the Coen brothers. That’s one of the reasons my wife and I moved to L.A.: that however much of a pipe dream that would be, I moved to L.A. because I’d love to work with the Coen brothers.
I definitely didn’t have any dreams of grandeur or dreams of becoming an action movie star.
To become a big movie star like Joan Crawford, you need to wear blinders and pay single-minded attention to your career. Nobody paid attention to me, including me.
I just don’t think of myself as a movie star – I’m an actress.
When a movie star sits and talks to you, it’s almost always, and only, because she’s promoting something.
The criteria, for me, is movie star. It’s Hollywood. Not Somalia.
I think being a movie star is about whether an audience can watch you and care about you.
I don’t think of myself as a movie star. I’m a movie worker. I come from a railroad family. I come from the corn.
I didn’t know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he’d be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much… that I had a hard time painting him.
I never really thought it would be possible to keep making films. I thought I’d get to a point where it would just stop happening, and I still sort of feel that way. I don’t know if any actor feels like they are going to have a career forever, unless they’re a movie star.
I watched movies, obviously, just like anybody else, but there was nothing to make me think, ‘I’m going to go to L.A. and become a movie star,’ or anything like that.
What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn’t real.
If you dress like a movie star, you have me.
I’m not a movie star. I’m just an actress.
I don’t want to be a big movie star.
When I write, I try not to cast in my head, because then I’m writing to a major movie star, and it picks up those ticks, and that’s not what I want to do.
I’m quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I’m not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that’s funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
My dream was to go to Hollywood and become a movie star, and it happened. This country is geared toward that. When an actor can become president, anything can happen.
I didn’t really want to be a movie star. I thought they were so screwed up!
In primary school when I was 6-7 years old, I always go to theater with my uncle, and I don’t know why I like the atmosphere, dark only. The screen has some lighting, that kind of things, you can see the movie star and so that’s why I like movies.
After I made my hit in ‘Salome,’ Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
People call me a movie star. If you’re in the business, a movie star is someone who can make a film bankable. My name and $6 million will make a $6 million movie. I’m a working actor. Because I started late, I had a very short run as a leading man, and my films didn’t make money in America.
Now that I am playing a movie star, I am ready to be a real one.
I like playing dress-up, and I love pretty jewels, but for me, being a ‘movie star’ would be a very dangerous place.
I’m loving saying ‘I’m not a big movie star, but I play one on television.’
I’m just a photographer, not a movie star.
My biggest hero when I was a kid was Will Smith. I used to watch ‘Fresh Prince,’ and I was a huge fan of his albums. I bought all of his albums when I was a kid. Now, he is the biggest movie star in the world.
I always get compared to looking like a silent movie star – though I don’t know if that’s a compliment, honestly.
I don’t think there is such a thing as a German movie star. There are respected actors, but we are not publicized like TV people.
Unless you’re of a certain age, you may not know my name, but you can Google it – I was a pretty big movie star in the 1950s. Oh, and another thing: I was – am – gay.
No one I knew in Sydney was thinking about how they might come to America and become a movie star. That would be considered delusions of grandeur. My parents were supportive, though. They just told me to keep at it as long as I was having fun.
I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.
I have no self-centeredness or ego about being a movie star.
I think doing something of your life is something that you’ve got deep inside, whether it’s to, whether you want to be an astronaut or a, whether you want to do science, or whether you want to be a movie star, or whatever.
I have a daughter who’s 11 years old. Maybe she’ll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she’ll play me in my life story.
I don’t have any massive ambitions to be a movie star.
One of my favorite L.A. movies is ‘Ed Wood,’ and it’s about how Bela Lugosi went from being this movie star personality to living in a little bungalow with his cats in the valley where, if you walked by, you’d have no idea. He’d come out and get his paper, and you’d go, ‘That guy looks familiar.’
Inside every TV star is a movie star screaming to get out, and Donna Frenzel, with whom I’m guessing you’re not instantly familiar, made George Clooney a movie star once and for all in the first ten minutes of his fifth feature, 1998’s ‘Out of Sight.’
If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not. You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.
Look, I’m not odd. I’m just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.
I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
Seriously, who doesn’t want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
I don’t think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.
When I was young, I had a favorite movie star. One day, I saw one of his movies, and it was bad, and he was bad in it. I could tell he didn’t care and only did it for the money. I felt betrayed. I never watched another one of his movies again.
Lying about one’s sexuality seems to be one of the ridiculous rules of what constitutes being a Hollywood movie star. Obviously, my own experience of working and continuing to work as an out gay actor is exactly that – working as an actor and not as a movie star. I don’t think the two are the same.
I read an article some years back in which Emma Thompson demeaned my mother’s acting ability. My mother would be the first person to say that she wasn’t the best actress in the world. But she was a movie star.
TV made me a star, but I wanted to be a movie star. So I started auditioning for films and during the initial days, I did face nepotism. But isn’t it everywhere?
I always had the dream of doing a ‘real’ infomercial because I had done smaller home shows and fairs. Everyone said it wasn’t going to work. ‘You need a movie star,’ they said. But I wanted to do it myself because I’m selling the passion – there is a problem and I have a solution – that had resonated well with people.
I saw Cate Blanchett in ‘Big and Small,’ and it was mind-blowing. The fact that she can do theatre and is also a huge movie star is really exciting.
I’m not a movie star, but I still get my photograph taken when I walk down the street, hundreds of times. I never say no.
I never wanted to be a movie star.
I’ve had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father – he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?
Soon we moved to Rome and I got a little bit of a sense I was different because the paparazzi would follow me when I went to buy books or socks. But my mother never behaved like a movie star.
It was the only ambition I ever had – not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.
