Hong Chau Quotes

My impression was, 'This Hollywood thing doesn't seem too hard.'

I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.

I don't own Hollywood.

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

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.

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

I had a growing career as a model and an actress in London - I had starred opposite Michael Caine and Sidney Poitier in 'The Wilby Conspiracy' - but everyone told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place, they said, and I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was that no one would quite know what to do with me.

I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago.

I always say: you're not going to find Hollywood. Hollywood will find you! But I'm ready for it: for Hollywood, for Bollywood, for everything!

Hollywood is my day job.

I never did love Hollywood, I just loved the work.

People tell me that Hollywood loves new faces, but I don't know. They're probably just being nice.

Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.

Most of my friends aren't actors - and not one of them is overly impressed with what I do.

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

Let's just say I like acting, but not necessarily all the stuff that comes with it.

My own aunt was Merle Oberon, so movie stardom was not a faraway mystery to me as a child: it was part of the family business.

I'm a fan of Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and all these people. If I could end up like Jonah Hill, winding up in a Brad Pitt movie, that would be awesome.

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.

It happens in the West most of the time - the biggest of stars, they audition. That's how it should happen.

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

I've had quite a wide spread of a career. But it's not like I've had to negotiate what Sienna Miller has had to negotiate, or even Felicity Jones, for example.

I don't work for Hollywood.

Glamour is a very small aspect of being an actress.