Nicole Richie Quotes

I've been lucky. I've made films that I really like. It's been a combination of what comes to me and what I choose. I've gone after lots of things that I didn't get, pet projects that everybody ends up chasing after. Really, you're lucky if you get anything.

Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.

I was obsessed with being rich and famous.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

Hollywood has treated me well.

'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long corner. If I don't hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I'm gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.

It was never really one of my goals to gain tremendous amount of celebrity or make a tremendous amount of money necessarily.

Had I pursued a film career in Los Angeles, I'm not sure I would have had the fortune that I've had.

Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.

George probably wanted to be rich and famous - most of us do, I think - but I don't think he ever wanted to be a star.

You can become a star overnight, guys. You can be on the street walking one day, and you're on your way to the corner diner, and you had to hitch a ride to get there. And the next day, you can be a huge star, money coming at you from right and left. And you've got to know how to handle that situation.

I do feel I have all the qualities of a film star but then why didn't I make it that big? I blame it on my destiny. I was not there at the right place at the right time.

I came from nothing and I have a chance to do something that happens once in a lifetime. There are only a couple people who can wake up and say that they're a world champion, a multimillionaire, and a successful superstar.

I want to have a big year. A big year, big fights, big contract, big money, big everything. 2017 is definitely my year.

I don't have ambitions to be a movie star or multi-millionaire.

You can turn your goals into gold.

Success. Money. Fame. Whatever you're going after. You have one kick at the can, I always say. It's very rare that you have many kicks at the can. You're there at the right place at the right time, you have your shot, and it either works or it doesn't. And I've had many shots.

There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

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.

I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.

There are those who write because they believe they have something so marvelous that it will make them famous and wealthy, a lauded commodity who will be invited to a lifetime of cocktail parties.

I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.

The whole fame and fortune thing is addictive.

Every actor dreams of getting a big break, a big opportunity.