Troian Bellisario Quotes

As a star you never know when people are really serious.

There's an inordinate amount of attention put on actors. Some people want to make their lives public, but that doesn't mean everybody does.

I'm good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O'Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.

You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.

The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.

I love acting, but don't necessarily enjoy other aspects of the business. For me, going to celebrity parties is like work.

I tell you, the paparazzi would not be sitting outside if they realized I was the most boring person in Hollywood.

I have a theory that most people in Hollywood are from Texas.

I'm not a party guy, and I'm not a Hollywood guy, either.

I can only speak for myself, but growing up in the spotlight is not easy at all... but at some stage you have to accept that and realise that it comes with the territory.

With this acting and this lifestyle, your privacy does get taken a little.

Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.

I don't understand how most pop stars live this life being told what to do, what to wear, all the time. Maybe money does mean more to some people.

I think I've always been kept grounded. I've never been too involved with the movie business apart from just doing the film. I've never moved out to LA like a lot of people or been too drawn in by that.

I think Hollywood has always, you know, there's always been glamour associated to it. And especially in the last ten years there has been a growing sort of obsession with celebrity life and celebrity culture.

I find it really frustrating when people go, "I want to be famous and glamorous like you." It's hard for me not to have a bad thought when someone says that to me, since if there's anything this business is not, is glamorous. It's only glamorous for maybe five minutes every now and then.

One of my thrills of the business is to find young people, there's a window. I like young people who are in that brief window between on their-way-up and rehab. In that window I can make stars. It's not really true but it's not so far off.

I think for a lot of people, acting becomes a lifestyle, especially when you're living in Los Angeles.

The career of a movie star consists of helping everyone else forget their troubles. Using charm and beauty and good cheer to make life look easy.

living in Los Angeles was like being an extra in a movie that was starring other people entirely.

for some people life outside the spotlight is death.

There are a lot of wannabe men in Hollywood. But when you have that Hollywood mentality, there aren't a lot of real, grounded people.

A film star is a kind of public monument, and everyone's staring at them, and they've kind of got railings around them, and they're rather miserable most of the time.