Movie Star Quotes - Page 17

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

  Teresa Palmer

  Stars, Opposites, Play

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• The fierce ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might well have been imagined by Horatio Alger, Jr.-- or Samuel Goldwyn-- but not the hidden costs behind those achievements. Carl Rollyson compassionately captures the man behind the movie star.

  Marion Meade

  Stars, Ambition, Son

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• Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.

  Norman Jewison

  Stars, Actors, Concentration

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• 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.

  Eliza Dushku

  Stars, School, Boston

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• I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural, effortless style.

  Vincent Cassel

  Stars, Style, French Love

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• People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.

  Victoria Pratt

  Stars, People, Teeth

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• 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.

  Jenna Fischer

  Running, Stars, Real

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In those simpler days, you could just take pictures of movie stars and show them the way they were, as normal human beings. And if I felt part of any movement at the time, it was just to do that - to be journalistic and photograph what is, rather than what is made up.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Stars, Movement, Way

  "The intimacy of strangers" by Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2008.

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• Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

  Montgomery Clift

  Stars, Trying, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Why is a movie starring women considered a gimmick and a movie starring men is just a normal movie?

  Paul Feig

  Men, Gimmicks, Normal

  "Paul Feig explains his vision for a female-led 'Ghostbusters'". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.ew.com. October 8, 2014.

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• I used to think that you could get to a level of success where the laws of the universe didn't apply. But they do. It's still life on life's terms, not on movie-star terms. I still have to work at relationships. I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.

  Chris Farley

  Stars, Thinking, Law

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.

  Jack Huston

  Stars, Men, Feet

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• It's absolutely impossible to have a serious critical discussion about enthusiasms for movie stars. Because a movie star is an animal separate from acting. Sometimes, he or she is a great actor. Sometimes a third-rate one. But the star is something that you fall in love with.

  Peter Biskind

  Falling In Love, Stars, Animal

  Peter Biskind (2013). “My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles”, p.193, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Vincent Gallo

  Stars, Ideas, Ambitious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The movie, 'Remember the Titans,' is my favorite movie, staring Denzel Washington. I love the way in this movie the game of football brings those boys together, it unites those boys on that football field. It unites a whole town, black, white, old, young, rich and poor.

  Michael Irvin

  Football, Boys, Games

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• A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.

  Allison Pearson

  Mother, Stars, Boys

  Allison Pearson (2004). “I don't know how she does it: the life of Kate Reddy, working mother”

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• Some people burn out, and some people like Clint Eastwood, he was a wild, international movie star in his 30s, and he's doing the best work of his life now. Go figure.

  Ethan Hawke

  Stars, People, Figures

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• Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn't end there.

  Bucky Sinister

  Inspirational, Recovery, Sobriety

  Bucky Sinister (2008). “Get Up: A 12-step Guide to Recovery for Misfits, Freaks, and Weirdos”, p.168, Conari Press

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• If 'The Wild One' were filmed today, Marlon Brando and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club would all have to wear helmets. I used to be afraid that when (Hells) Angels became movie stars and Cal the hero of the book, the bikerider would perish on the coffee tables of America. But now I think that this attention doesn't have the strength of reality of the people it aspires to know, and that as long as Harley-Davidsons are manufactured other bikeriders will appear, riding unknown and beautiful through Chicago, into the streets of Cicero.

  Danny Lyon

  Beautiful, Stars, Coffee

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• I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.

  Rachael Taylor

  Stars, Thinking, Resilience

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Ethel Merman

  Stars, Broadway, Vaudeville

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Independent films now, they want to give you $2 million to make it, 21 days to shoot it and they want 10 movie stars in it.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Stars, Independent, Giving

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I'm not really a fan of, like, rock stars, movie stars, people like that. I like politics.

  Alex Jones

  Stars, Rocks, People

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• I'm not a movie star and I know that.

  Steve Harvey

  Stars, Knows

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.

  Shana Alexander

  Life, Movie, Running

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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