Aaron Eckhart Quotes

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes

I must admit that I was in total awe of Stewart Granger. He was my idol.

Cary Grant was one of the most marvelous men I've ever met.

Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world.

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

I can't picture myself being the people I always looked up to.

Women always want to be what they're not: If you're the pretty girl, you want to be the quirky girl. If you're the smart girl, you want to be the pretty girl.

I met Cary Grant once, and I was absolutely star struck. I got his autograph.

Tom Hanks has been a huge idol of mine. I'd love to work with someone like him someday. You could learn a lot working with someone like that.

My father and mother are both very smart people and I always felt I was a little short of the mark. So I would compensate with a character like Logan Cale. He's wearing glasses, he's in a wheelchair, he's a computer genius. He's very far away from who I am, but I really wanted to play roles where I'd be taken seriously.

I want to be like Bradley Cooper when I grow up.

Bette Davis is my hero. I'm obsessed with her. I base everything I do on her.

I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.

The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.

I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?

I sometimes wish desperately that I could write like someone else, be someone else. No one particularly. Just if I could put the pen down on paper and suddenly come out in a totally different way.

Comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. Once you compare yourself to someone else, what you're really saying is that what you're made of isn't good enough.

When you were a little girl, Madam.....was this the woman you dreamed of becoming?

Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.

There are women who are wishing that they were that piece of tape right now.

A man who has his initials on his pyjamas must be uncertain of himself. Surely you should know who you are at bed time.

Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else's are even tougher.

I wish I was Sienna Miller. When I talk to her, I hope a bit of her party personality will rub off on me, but it never does.

One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that everybody else's life is going to be better and finer and fuller. That everyone else attended some secret lesson in which how to live was taught and you had a dental appointment that day, or you were somehow not invited. And the point of great writers like Wilde is that they make that invitation to you.