Liam Cunningham Quotes

I want to be tagged as an actor and not as a star.

I think there's a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They're all three different things.

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

I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor.

You can either be a movie star or an actor. I'm an actor.

I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.

I want to be the best actor that I can be; I want to be working in this business absolutely, and if that means being a movie star, then OK, that's fine. But to me, movie star, celebrity, all that stuff means something very different than being an actor.

I'm an actress, not a celebrity.

I'm not especially interested in actors or their life, double, triple identities and all that.

I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.

I just don't think of myself as a movie star - I'm an actress.

I have never really had a goal to be a true blue movie star, unlike a lot of my colleagues.

My dear friend Randeep Hooda says I am more a unionist than an actor. I reminded him I was a star and not just an actor.

I want to be an actor - I don't want to be a celebrity. They are two different things, and people have forgotten that they are different.

I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.

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 don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act.

Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.

I think there is a difference between being a celebrity and being an actor.

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

Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn't really be interesting to me.

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

I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.

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.

If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.