Jean Dujardin Quotes

I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.

Being a movie star is a quality that somebody sort of embodies, and being a celebrity is something that people give to you. It has to do with being recognizable, as opposed to something that people recognize in you. I just hope to make good movies. I know that sounds simple, but it's true.

I can't tell my self that I'm a serious actor. But I'm serious person.

There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue".

People know me as Prakash Rai in Karnataka. Let it be so. But I'm known as Prakash Raj to the rest of India and abroad. Every actor worth his salt gets a name after coming to films.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

I'm an actor - I want to be known for that.

Every kid's dream is to be a great actor.

Dustin Hoffman said this one time, that if he hadn't made it as a film star, he would still be happy as a character actor because he was a character actor because of his face from day one, so he would always work in the theater.

I don't want to be a movie star. I want to be in movies that are stars.

I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor.

Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.

I don't want to be a great actress. I want to be a sexy movie star.

I only ever wanted to be an actress, not a star.

I was trying to find my way into the music business still, but I didn't want to portray something that I wasn't. I really wanted to be just me.

I want to be 82 and doing movies with Paolo Sorrentino where people are like, "This is gold."

Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor.

I'm not going to star in every one of my movies. But I'm telling you [pounds fists] what I will bring to this film industry is the same thing I brought to the record industry when I came into it. Realism. Uncompromised, unconditional dog love.

I realized that I was a really, really terrible actor. I was like, "I'd better be myself."

Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.

The celebrity mill is so active these days that actors can make careers out of being themselves, and I don't know that I want to. I think I'm just figuring out how to make a career out of not being myself. It's hard.

I don't think much of most of the films I made, but being a movie star was something I liked very much.

I'm not sure I enjoyed doing [Gigi Does It]. I'm cool with just being an actor. If anything, I learned to be proud of being an actor.

I'm no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.

Yet in the celebrity-obsessed culture, where everything of you is a shot on the red carpet, I don't want that to dominate my image. First and foremost, I am an actor. I want great roles.