Goldie Hawn Quotes

I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.

The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.

Look, I'm not a blockbuster star.

There are those, I think, who are attracted to the glitz of celebrity life. I am not one of them.

A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.

I've never been interested in celebrity.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.

I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.

Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.

Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.

I don't mind doing the whole red carpet thing when I have to when it comes to publicizing a movie. But besides that, I don't like those kinds of things at all. Celebrity status is not really something that appeals to me.

I am a child of Hollywood and dreams. To me, to be on the red carpet is the best place in the world.

I have friends who are movie stars, and I think it's just as hard a job as being a working actor. But it's a different job, and it's not the one I want.

I don't envy young actors.

I don't really miss the Hollywood lifestyle.

I know what it's like to grow up in Hollywood.

I admire pop stars, and there's parts of that world I'm glad I don't have to go through. It takes a lot of work to do the things they do.

In Hollywood, you grow up quick.

Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.

I don't want to be a movie star like Angelina Jolie. Nothing about being a celebrity is desirable. I'm an actor. It's bizarre to me that everybody's so obsessive.

You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.

Walking down the red carpet, suddenly I felt very special and different. All the flashlights from cameras and requesting voices from the media, the scene, it was just like what I remembered seeing on TV or a movie when I was a little girl - the scene only when movie stars appeared.

I have always been a Malibu Man, like all actors.

The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.

I had no dream of being a movie star.