Top 45 Alden Ehrenreich Quotes

I remember when I was 13 and telling people I wanted to be an actor, and being met with, ‘Have fun waiting tables,’ so I figured maybe that’s not such a great idea after all.

I listen to some really bad country.

I had an iPhone, and then I’d forget my iPhone at home, and I’d be like, ‘God, I feel so good. I’m having such a good day.’ And then I’d realize, ‘Oh – it’s because I’m not checking my email nineteen thousand times.’

I really don’t know what it’s like in ‘Twilight,’ but I know in the young-adult genre, there are these cold, aloof guys. If you start thinking that’s the ideal guy when you’re 13, by the time you’re 25, you’re going to have had some seriously bad relationships.

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 feel like some of the best roles that I’ve gotten to play I could’ve never preconceived. These things happen to you in an unexpected fashion, so it’s hard to pre-imagine what that would be because some of the best opportunities I’ve had I could’ve never anticipated or expected.

I just really want to continue to play those roles where I really have something to do, and mainly, above all, work with people that I can learn from – directors I think are so great.

It’s not hard for me to access a bad actor. That’s always there. It’s actually kind of a load off your mind because, the worse you do, the better it goes.

I think, for me, the only real value to fame, stuff like that, is that you can then have a lot more creative power to get certain movies made and to do certain things.

If I tried to somehow wrap my head around the fact that Francis Ford Coppola directed my first movie, there’s never a slot into which that ever fits in your mind.

If I had to do a lot of promotion as a kid, it would have been very intense. I’m really glad I got to go through high school, have a college experience, and have the last five years since then, just… being a person.

My parents were big film buffs.

To be honest, you go to a bat mitzvah in Los Angeles, and you can count on at least a few industry people to be there.

It’s just cool to have lunch with Harrison Ford.

Something that is appealing to me about old Hollywood is job security.

I made short films in school.

With ‘Running Scared,’ I originally wanted to do a piece that was going to be about a couple, and the whole thing would be based on wall posts on Facebook. So the idea started there.

Paul Newman made eight of my favorite movies. He chose a certain kind of movie I really identified with.

When you watch a lot of movies as a kid, the stories do shape a little bit how you view the world.

When I was 12, I decided I was only going to watch Westerns for a few months.

I’ve had that experience many, many, times – when you don’t get roles. I’d developed a good muscle for shaking it off. I buy myself a present whenever I don’t get a role that I really wanted. You get bummed out, and then you go, ‘Oh! Now I get to go buy a present for myself.’ That kind of helps.

I had a meeting with the producer of ‘Five Easy Pieces,’ which is my favorite movie. He introduced me to Francis, and I spent six months going to Napa and Buenos Aires, auditioning for Francis and doing these incredible improvisational games. It was a very bohemian audition process.

There’s a lot of directors I’d still love to work with – one of them is Spielberg, because he kind of started my career, and I’ve not worked with him yet.

Oh, I’ve been ridiculously lucky to work for, I’d say, five of the greatest directors of all time… and a lot of other great people, too.

It’s funny: the reason I did ‘Beautiful Creatures’ was the same reason I did everything else – even though it was a genre film and existed at a more studio level, the script and the characters were so well written.

I think now I’m more realistic, but I’m still very much an idealist.

I carry around a black leather Moleskine journal all the time. And I always write ideas down, especially when I’m on set and working with actors like Jeremy Irons and Viola Davis and learning from them.

Whenever you hear somebody else is auditioning for something, you sort of assume they’re going to get it. You should try to just ignore it.

I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impact on culture when they do. So I really want to be a part of those movies that say something good to a lot of people.

My parents weren’t involved in show business, but my parents would show me. We’d watch old films in the house. Little film festivals of Westerns and stuff like that when I was a kid. I knew I wanted to be those guys in those movies before I knew what being an actor was.

I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa, which spoiled the hell out of me.

This movie ‘On the Road’ with Kristen Stewart – they were trying to make that movie for 30 years. She says she wants to do it, and they can finally make it. You have so much at your disposal if you’re in a successful commercial film.

I just can’t imagine having to do an accent all the time – like, in your whole career.

Every movie I’ve done, it’s always the same criteria: finding a great story, and finding a great part to play.

My mom wouldn’t let me do child acting.

I think it would be frustrating having to do things you wouldn’t want to do, having to make movies you didn’t like.

My favorite one… it’s hard to pick a favorite. But the one I really love a lot is ‘A Serious Man.’ I just love, love ‘A Serious Man.’

Like, you think, ‘Oh, it’s ‘Star Wars,’ everybody has a spaceship’ – but no, actually, in the ‘Star Wars’ universe, having a ship is like having a yacht.

I find it remarkable. It’s surreal for me that I’ve gotten to work with so many people who are not only great filmmakers but whose films have had such a direct effect on me.

I would say that it’s mainly about the director. It’s a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you’re given – that’s definitely something I can sort of relate to.

When you work for the Coens, they are so fun and so organized. They treat everyone with such respect.

Each film and each character is a completely new set of challenges. It doesn’t feel like you can rest on something you may have done well in the past.

My feeling is that I don’t really care about the genre or the size of the movie. I care about the quality of the writing and the quality of the characters.

I’m an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I’m a film buff.