Mohammad Amir Quotes

I wasn't ready for fame and all that brings to your life. It was an amazing experience, but so overwhelming, because no one can tell you beforehand when it will happen or how it will impact you. So no one can tell you how to handle it, being stopped everywhere you go because people saw you on 'Oprah.' It took me over, and I wasn't ready.

If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is.

All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.

In Hollywood, you grow up quick.

I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it's a lot of work. It's work to be a star. I don't enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.

I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that.

When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

My impression was, 'This Hollywood thing doesn't seem too hard.'

Everyone wants to go to the party and the red carpet, but my life is 90% the work.

Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young.

Being a part of 'Sex and the City' was like being at the center of the universe - it was extraordinary.

When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof.

There's a lot of young actors and people who have success very quickly who kind of expect it or don't have the experience to really appreciate it.

If you're young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you're Hemingway. The next day you're nothing.

After the 'X Factor,' there were opportunities everywhere. It was all there waiting for me to enjoy. I didn't understand business.

This fame is a juggernaut: It slaps you in the face, and you don't know what you're doing. You don't know who has your back, who is your support system.

Sometimes, I wonder where my place in this town called 'Hollywood' is - and that can give you a really dull headache.

We're the country of movie stars because the stars, like ourselves, represent a kind of extended infantilism, beauties waiting for the big chance.

From the outside, there's a lot of glitz. They see you on the red carpet, but they don't see what it takes to get there.

I think that when I was younger and had my first round of big success and was plastered on magazine covers in the early and mid-'90s, I was kind of outspoken and had kind of a pretty aggressive attitude in my life.

I believe that sometimes, when you start out at 18 years of age on the red carpet, it can make you think, 'This is normal, this is easy.'

I was 18-years-old hanging out with Mickey Rourke and Johnny Depp at Mickey's club Risk.

I don't wish stardom on anyone. When I hear people say, 'this guy's a star,' I always say, 'good luck.'

Young people have to learn in a cocoon filled with false optimism. Unlike their parents and grandparents, they grow up with very little sense of the pitiless passage of time.

With regards to the fame, I wanted it, I worked for it, and when you get it, it's something you want to turn on and off, but that's part of the game.