Bronson Pinchot Quotes

I've never crossed over to be a big star. I'd like to be in a big $100 million movie, though. 'Cause I was in an 'Austin Powers,' I think I had two lines, and every once in a while, I get a check, a really nice check, for that movie.

Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.

Honestly, working with Eddie Murphy was mind-blowing just in terms of the budget alone. To see the respect he commands, to witness his presence, you understand why he and people like Martin Lawrence are stars.

I was the leading star in 1945. I slowed down my pace of acting assignments after I came into direction.

I did 'The Karate Kid,' then I just went back to college. I didn't know how much money it made and I didn't have a publicist. I didn't have any sense of the business part of it.

You really are as hot as your last movie. And it goes away really quickly.

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

I guess in the independent market, I'd be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don't think my name is that well-known, I don't have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet.

It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

I dreamed of doing stuff like Will Smith and films on a big scale.

I like everybody at 'Criminal Minds.' I would like to guest star, but I don't know if that is in the cards.

I certainly wouldn't mind if 'Jurassic Park' turns out to be commercially successful, and somebody says, 'Hey, you were in a box-office hit, and if you want to do another movie, we'll give you five million dollars to make it.'

Ideally, I'd like to go right back to getting $7 million a picture and being the headliner. That's probably not going to happen.

I'm a fan of Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and all these people. If I could end up like Jonah Hill, winding up in a Brad Pitt movie, that would be awesome.

Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!

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.

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

I have to make my bones with Hollywood to get in. And when I do maybe I'll metamorphose from Mr. Muscles or whatever it is I am now and become an irascible tosser.

Who could have asked for anything better? I was cast in movies with great actors, with great leading men.

With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.

Oh absolutely. I had the pleasure to get to know a lot of really talented young actors before they even really hit it big. And yet what we all had and shared in common was a love for movies.

I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.

When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie.

I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.

When you make successful movies, everyone on set takes care of you, everybody is so nice and you disconnect from reality.