Milo Ventimiglia Quotes

Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.

Celebrities are just like us and like any of your friends. I love working with people.

I have been an actor for most of my life. When I started out, I didn't think about anything except what was good for me. Like many movie stars, I became all wrapped up in myself.

I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business.

Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or getting to Hollywood - I was born next door.

You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.

Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.

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 still get excited about meeting celebrities, because I don't think I'm a celebrity myself.

I don't hang out with movie stars, and you won't see me going to many Hollywood parties. I'm actually quite boring.

As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene.

I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.

There's a certain thought process about actors that they are in Hollywood and they sit around pools and get suntans and just get offered jobs.

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

I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.

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.

For actors in Hollywood, it's very straightforward. We're well-paid animals in a zoo.

I didn't really want to be a movie star. I thought they were so screwed up!

The whole celebrity culture is super weird, but I'm part of it for some reason, and you kind of have to be as an actor to be successful.

I have friends who are movie stars, and I think it's just as hard a job as being a working actor. But it's a different job, and it's not the one I want.

My grandfather used to own a production company called Everlasting Pictures. I grew up with a lot of artistas and reporters and I'd always be starstruck.

Hollywood has always been crazy. It's controlled anarchy. But how can you loathe something that has given you so much?

I've been to so many dos and presentation dinners and TV shows. I've been among all the top stars - soap stars, people from music - it's been brilliant. But I've kept my feet on the ground.