Zach Galligan Quotes

My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.

I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didn't have to be a gigolo. In real life.

I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.

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'm not the Hollywood type. I'm not going to pack up my bags and let me move to Hollywood and stuff like that.

I'm glad that I didn't get a part in 'Scream 2' and become a star in 1995.

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.

I have never really had a goal to be a true blue movie star, unlike a lot of my colleagues.

Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought - I want to sell out!

My impression was, 'This Hollywood thing doesn't seem too hard.'

Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me.

Everybody says, 'You impress me as a guy who never wanted to be a movie star.' I say, 'Everybody in the world wants to be a movie star.'

I think that, in the beginning, you think, 'I want to be the biggest movie star in the world.' And then, with the more movies you make, you are like, 'I don't know if I want to be that anymore. I think what I am looking for is something different.' I like acting, but a lot of times, stardom comes with a lot of strings attached.

I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.

As much as I appreciate acting and enjoy it, and like it, it wasn't something where I grew up wanting to be a movie star.

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.

I always knew I'd be an actor. I always knew I'd at least be on a big screen somewhere.

Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

I'm not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job.

I knew since third grade I wanted to be Jim Carrey. His freedom, his goofiness, his crazy, loud, sudden energy. I told my family I was going to be a pediatrician, but in the back of my mind, I was like, 'Nope, I'm going to be the biggest movie star ever.'

Being an action star is all I had ever hoped to be. I ultimately knew I would be an action star.

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.