Alex Roe Quotes

I certainly know quite a few kid actors, but I'm not really friends with them. They're all very nice people, but I just don't run in the same circles.

Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.

None of my friends are in the entertainment industry.

I'm not somebody who no matter where I go there are paparazzi or any of that nonsense. But I have a little window into that world and I can enter it and dance around. I want to be the audience's ticket into the party.

I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.

I'm not into the whole showbiz scene.

You've got to swank in Hollywood.

Everyone in the film industry does a lot of drama to get the limelight.

I'm not really into the celebrity lifestyle.

You know, back when I was a kid who wanted to be in show business, everybody on TV wore nice clothes. They were very glamorous when they would be on the 'Tonight Show.' All the dudes wore suits and ties and that just seemed like real show business to me.

I hate the showbiz scene.

In Hollywood, you grow up quick.

We don't play the celebrity business in our family.

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

Hollywood, what a place it is! It is so far away from the rest of the world, so narrow. No one thinks of anything but motion pictures or talks of anything else.

I don't have many actor friends.

I'm not trying to be a celebrity, Justin Timberlake kinda guy.

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

I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.

Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.

I don't necessarily need Hollywood.

My own mum cared about Hollywood, and I didn't. I wanted to act, and I loved the creativity of it, but I didn't care for the lifestyle.

I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!

I loved everything about show business, meeting the stars, the whole ambience. I was living every young kid's dream. I was told a pop singer's life was three years, but I was still making money seven years later.