Franco Nero Quotes

I've been in the entertainment industry since I was five and it has always been something that has been in my blood.

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

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.

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.

I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.

I have an older brother who is an actor as well.

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

Basically, my goal in life is to be David Hyde Pierce - go to Hollywood, make some money, come back and just win some Tony Awards.

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.

We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.

I loved acting. I didn’t particularly like being a movie star.

I don't own Hollywood.

In the long run, there are people who've made more money or had bigger stardom at points. But, I think I'll have come out winning.

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

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

I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didn't have to be a gigolo. In real life.

A career in entertainment has a lifespan, like one in sport.

But this is called show business, not show family.

Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

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

I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money.

I know a lot of Disney Channel stars. I hang out with Debbie Ryan. Me and Ryan Newman hang out a lot, and I know a lot of them from 'Friends for Change' - we all meet from there. It's cool. Everybody is like family at Disney Channel. All the stars are so fun and nice, so it's really fun to hang out with them.

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