Angourie Rice Quotes

In L.A. everyone is in the entertainment industry, so you're forced to think about work.

I didn't really think about being a movie star. I was more about theater.

I don't admire actors so much, actually.

In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.

I do enjoy acting, but it is such a game. So for that reason, I don't think I'll ever leave London.

Hollywood to me is a place to work. Home is Chester County.

Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and it's a very strange one.

I'm not curing cancer. I'm not saving lives. It's my job. I'm an actor. It's a good, fun job. People enjoy it, but there are many other people who are doing so many things that are more worthwhile. I just don't see anything that special about it. I see it as entertaining.

I never really thought I wanted to become a movie star.

I did 'Celebrity' by Woody Allen. I did 'The Gingerbread Man' with Robert Altman. These were big talents.

I used to think no one should go into show biz, but now I feel differently. I now feel like it's a great career. If you can do it and make money at it and still not be so famous that you can have a normal life - then I think it's a great career.

Film sets are a strange place, but an exciting place. I do love my work; I really enjoy going to work. But if you just spend all your time on film sets or even on stage, you can become a Michael Jackson figure, living in your own little universe.

I am only an actress when they say, 'action' and I stop being an actress when they say, 'cut'. I am a normal person outside of acting.

Entertainment is such a great job to have.

There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.

This whole celebrity racket, it's not really my bag. I don't really do that stuff, and I am not looking to get famous myself. I would love it if my characters get famous, my work was well known and appreciated. But I'm an actor, not a spokes model or a celebrity or whatever that is. I don't know how to be that.

Hollywood is my day job.

I work in the entertainment industry, and I like to be entertained.

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

Acting is the most wildly overpaid position imaginable.

I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.

Even with limited success as an actor, you usually have a more interesting life than in many other professions, so it's not an unreasonable choice.

My parents are in the business - they're actors - so I kind of grew up on a film set, which was a funny place to grow up.

Hollywood is what I do. It's not who I am.

What I have found to be so interesting in my life and with my friends and family who have 'normal jobs' where they don't play pretend for a living is that... Hollywood is absurd but very open about its absurdity.