Brian Cox Quotes

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actor's always an actor until he does a movie-star part.

Ideally, I'd like to go right back to getting $7 million a picture and being the headliner. That's probably not going to happen.

If you are the kind of guy who draws in 100 million people to see his film, you've got every right to be paid accordingly, but I qualify as a character actor. I don't put a bum on a seat.

I don't really have aspirations to be Tom Hanks.

I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!

I'm not an actor who is trying to be a movie star.

Stars are always bigger. They bring the audience to the theatres. More than that, they do a lot of work in a film, and they are always on top. I am in no way competing with them.

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.

Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.

With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.

I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.

I was the leading star in 1945. I slowed down my pace of acting assignments after I came into direction.

Inside every TV star is a movie star screaming to get out, and Donna Frenzel, with whom I'm guessing you're not instantly familiar, made George Clooney a movie star once and for all in the first ten minutes of his fifth feature, 1998's 'Out of Sight.'

I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress.

I see myself more as a character actress than a celebrity.

I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie.

You really are as hot as your last movie. And it goes away really quickly.

Nobody paid any attention career-wise to me in America until 'Bronson.' It gave me a calling card and passage into America, where I've always wanted to work.

The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star.

I think that, in the beginning, you think, 'I want to be the biggest movie star in the world.' And then, with the more movies you make, you are like, 'I don't know if I want to be that anymore. I think what I am looking for is something different.' I like acting, but a lot of times, stardom comes with a lot of strings attached.

I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.

I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald going to take off her clothes - again?

I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.