Parker Stevenson Quotes

People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.

I don't want to say, 'I want to be in Hollywood,' like so many actors do, but I know that Hollywood is still making good movies, and I'd like to be part of that someday.

Like a lot of girls, even I have this dream of being in the movies, and like any actor, I need to grow.

As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'

I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals.

I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.

I'm very, very lucky to be a working actor, but I've also been careful. I don't just take anything. 'Durham County' came to me. You have to look at the quality of work you do, and 'Durham' set the standard. I wait for things that keep me really interested.

I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work.

I ultimately wanna do big movies, and I've been so close so many times. They keep giving my roles to girls with just a little more exposure than me.

I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films.

Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.

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.

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.

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

I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn't necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor. But I wanted to be somewhere where there would be no ceiling on what I could accomplish, and I felt like if I stayed in St. Louis I might have a really great regional theater career or something, but that I wasn't going to be able to get much further than that. And it felt like New York and L.A. were the two places where you could end up being a TV star or you could end up doing regional theater, which would have been fine as well.

For one year, I want to do this thing where I guest-star on as many television shows as I possibly can. I love television. The fact that television ultimately made me famous was very gratifying for me.

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 think, being a kid, you always think about being a movie star. And then as I got older, I started thinking about just the work.

I suppose after 'Four Weddings' I was very busy for a bit, and I imagined that was my career, but I never had that thing of, 'I'm burning to be an actor. If I don't act, I'm not alive.' I've never had that.

I knew very early on that I wasn't Brad Pitt.

I'm not an actor who is trying to be a movie star.

I don't have any interest in being a movie star.

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 had two jobs coming out of school: I did a play, 'The Great White Hope.' I played the boxer Jack Johnson. And I was the lead in this indie film. Then I moved to Los Angeles because New York was cold and it was really too quiet for me at that time. I was out of school; I was hungry. The auditions were trickling in, and I was antsy and ready to go.

I have no screen ambitions whatsoever.