AnnaLynne McCord Quotes

It's actually just as cool to be on television as to be in a movie, and nobody's ashamed of this back and forth.

You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.

That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.

I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.

I don't want to be a big movie star.

Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this subterfuge that we are giving them no more than they deserve. It is a meanness which we associate with criminals and vagabonds; a piece of crawling and sneaking...Men whose race is universally known, will unblushingly adopt a false name as a mask, and after a year or two pretend to treat it as an insult if their original and true name be used in its place.

I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.

Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are different.

I enjoy being a character actor; I enjoy being different in everything. I want a private life; I want to be able to go to 7-11 and not get into a fight with a guy because he saw me in a movie, or not have people hitting on me simply because they saw me in a movie.

When I was 13 I had a fake Id that said that I was 19. I was getting in all the clubs.

Hopefully, I can cross over into Hollywood, and hopefully that will bring me a bigger name in China.

I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.

I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.

I've signed autographs as Natalie Portman. I was at a Film Festival party where someone asked if I was her, and I didn't want to embarrass them, so I signed the autograph as her. I hope she doesn't mind.

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

I know that everyone wants to know about 'Downton Abbey,' but the truth is that it was only a few days out of my life. Still, you play a distinctive part on a hit series, and everyone suddenly knows who you are. Isn't it crazy how this business works?

I have no aspiration whatsoever to be the next great leading man.

I never had any desire to become a well-known actress.

I didn't get into this for fame, I genuinely didn't. I love acting, and I know that's a cliche, but I didn't, really, I was very naive when it came to the whole being recognized thing.

I wanted to become a model and an actress.

I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.

I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.

I moved to L.A., because that's where they point cameras at you. And that's what I'd like them to do.

'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.

There was an article about me once, and the first line was, 'It's good to be a gangster.' Well, I'm not a gangster. I'm an actor.