Chris Tucker Quotes

I always wanted to be a big star.

If I got too famous, I'd just quit acting, but I think it's highly unlikely I'm going to get really famous.

I don't know if I want to be a big star though.

But I don't think I was ever destined to be a big star.

For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

I always wanted to be a star.

You have to be a star to be in this business.

I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star.

I'm not a movie star, and I don't want to become a movie star.

We are in the the entertainment business, and we all know if you are top of the tree, you get big money.

If it were just a dream to be famous, then I probably would have died a really quick death, because there is nothing about me that equals fame. I'm not a standup comedian. I don't sing.

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.'

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

I do not understand the pleasure of being so famous. I just don't get it. I love acting and doing the work. That's what it's all about for me.

I want to show people that I can be a household name.

It's not like I came out in 'Rolling Stone' and all of a sudden I had a closet full of all the clothes I want.

It's bizarre, that feeling as an actor, at being in the mecca of the film world and seeing billboards for a TV show that you're in pretty much everywhere.

I'm not in a real rush to be a big star.

I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.

In Hollywood, they say good news finds you.

It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?

My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?

To this day, I don't know what shapes a Hollywood career.

To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don't buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing.

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.