Melissa Leo Quotes

Hollywood always likes to create a star.

You'd see those movie stars on the screen, and say, 'I want to be that guy.'

I always wanted to be a star.

Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.

Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.

Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.

People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

Show me an actor who doesn't want to be famous, and I'll show you a liar. Later, you realise that there's more to it than just the acquisition of fame, and money and girls. But that is what drives them and was what drove me, initially.

In my heart, I want to believe I shouldn't give up anything to become a huge pop star.

There are many good-looking actors.

It was weird. I joined this band because my life was all about singing. Then Girls Aloud became successful, and suddenly it wasn't just about being able to sing any more. It turned into a beauty contest.

I looked at 'Us Weekly' and said, 'I want to be famous.'

In Hollywood, you grow up quick.

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.

As a young girl, I used to dream of giving an interview. You dream of stardom as a kid. People think they don't want to be stars. Everyone wants to be a star! That's the truth. Even grownups; they pretend they don't want to be one and don't care. But everyone wants to.

It's my sick fantasy to be a Cosmo cover.

I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life.

In Hollywood, they say good news finds you.

The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.

I only think one person is really cool, and that's Kanye.

Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.

Let's face it I am not Joan Collins or Boy George.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.

Hollywood has given me a great, warm hug.

I think a lot of people secretly wish they were a rock star, and I'm no exception.