Robert Osborne Quotes

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

Even though I grew up in L.A., no one in my family was in the movie industry. I've always felt whatever the opposite of disillusioned is. I guess illusioned with movies and with people in movies and things like that. It's all exciting to me.

Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.

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.

Everybody says, 'You impress me as a guy who never wanted to be a movie star.' I say, 'Everybody in the world wants to be a movie star.'

If you can figure out my success on the screen, you're a better man than I.

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!

I didn't come to New York to be a star, I brought my star with me.

I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.

I think every cute girl is told to move to L.A. someday. So I do like the drive over from my house to the studio.

When I was just a girl in Sydney, no one thought, 'Oh, she's going to be a movie star.' No one. I had to get by with actual skill and talent.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be the girl next door. I came to be a movie star.

A movie star is someone who has to open a film to gazillions of dollars. I'm just trying to pay my mortgage.

To try to crack into Hollywood, it's a dream come true.

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.

I never dreamed of being in Hollywood.

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.

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

I have to make my bones with Hollywood to get in. And when I do maybe I'll metamorphose from Mr. Muscles or whatever it is I am now and become an irascible tosser.

I knew I was going to be famous later in life.

I don't own Hollywood.

I always believed I would be a star.

I have just been working with Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is also a mum, on a movie called 'Hysteria.' She is everywhere because of the nature of film work. Not that I'm name dropping or anything like that. I have to pinch myself when I remember who I've been working with.

I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.

My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.