Willem Dafoe Quotes

I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

You have to be a star to be in this business.

Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.

Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.

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

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

I don't own Hollywood.

As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.

Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.

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

Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me.

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 never did love Hollywood, I just loved the work.

I'm vain enough to want do a movie again.

Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.

Hollywood itself is a little intimidating and exciting. There's definitely a way to go about approaching it.

My own aunt was Merle Oberon, so movie stardom was not a faraway mystery to me as a child: it was part of the family business.

I'm not in Hollywood because I'm good at math.

Everybody wants to be a movie star. I bet if you ask that guy would he like to be a movie star, he'd say, 'Sure.'

All actors may not be stars, but all stars are actors, and I can vouch for that.

Hollywood is not easy.

I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.

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.

The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies.

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