Missy Peregrym Quotes

With all the movies I've done, I still get recognized from my episode of 'Law & Order' more than anything else. It never fails.

Usually I get recognized for The Blue Lagoon or Dallas.

I have fans all around the world.

No one ever comes up to me and says, 'Hey man, I loved your work in 'Road Trip.' They say, 'Are you that guy?' Like, they have no idea. 'Were you in 'American Pie 2?'

I've been on 'iCarly' and 'Hannah Montana.' And a few other things.

I do good work in Pakistan. I am an A-lister actor. So, even in Bollywood I want to work with an A-lister.

No one knows who I am in Australia. They don't even know I am Australian, because 'The Secret Circle' is on in Australia, and I'm sure everyone's like, 'Oh, she's American. She's from, like, North Carolina.' Like, nobody knows me in Australia, I'm just telling you.

I'm flattered if any movie role and my name are mentioned in the same sentence, because there haven't been a ton of them.

When I come to London now it's like being in L.A., because they know me like I'm at home.

Tyler Perry's 'Madea Goes to Jail!' Which, I have to tell you, of everything that I've ever done in my career, that's the only thing that's perked up the ears of my nieces and nephews. That is it, that's done it for them. That made me a bona fide star in their eyes!

I live in a country where I'd say nine out of ten people know me when I walk through the streets. There's people taking pictures, there's tabloids trying to make up stories. I'm used to that. The same thing when I'm in Australia or the U.K.: I get stopped.

I mean, obviously, a lot of people know me around the world. Kids know me.

Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?

That's an amazing gift as an actor - to be able to say I have an audience in so many countries in the world and that people know my work.

Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped.

The kids all knew me from Wayne's World. The grown-ups knew me after True Lies.

As a kid, you either wanted to play Bond or a Bond villain. Ask any of my friends in entertainment, whether they are actors or writers or producers or directors, and they will tell you that they'd love to play a Bond baddie. I can go anywhere in the world and I am known; it put me on the international map.

There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion.

I've been acting for a long time, and I've done a lot of things, and I've been maintaining my anonymity pretty well. I get recognized once a week, at most, here and there, so I'm reluctant to give that up.

My dad always said there's four phases in an actor/director's life. There's 'Mario Who?' There's 'Get me Mario!' 'Get me a young Mario,' and 'Mario Who?'

People who come to 'The Country House' are like, 'You're on 'The Good Wife' now.' But I've been on since the second season! I feel that the interest in the children in that series is almost tangential.

I've been voted one of Australia's 50 national treasures. I've even had my face on an Australian stamp - the only non-Australian to do so, apart from the Queen, of course.

I enjoy being a character actor; I enjoy being different in everything. I want a private life; I want to be able to go to 7-11 and not get into a fight with a guy because he saw me in a movie, or not have people hitting on me simply because they saw me in a movie.

Hopefully, I can cross over into Hollywood, and hopefully that will bring me a bigger name in China.

I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.