Eddie Marsan Quotes

I just don't think of myself as a movie star - I'm an actress.

I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.

I'm not up there with Kate Winslet and Julia Roberts. I don't sell tickets. I've known that for a long time.

No, I never thought of it in those terms. I used to go into agents' offices and they'd have pictures of these handsome movie men and I knew I'd never be up there. I'm a journeyman actor. I didn't think about stardom.

I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.

Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.

I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress.

I don't really have aspirations to be Tom Hanks.

The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star.

I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.

I'm not going to be the next Colin Farrell or Orlando Bloom.

I have been in this industry for over a decade, and I still don't consider myself a movie star.

I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.

It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.

I see myself more as a character actress than a celebrity.

I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.

I guess I could say I'm an actor, which I am, but that sounds like I'm putting down being a movie star, which, let's face it, is what I've become to many people. For myself, I'm a guy who was very insecure from about age 14 until the day I hit my 30th birthday.

I realize that no one is going to come to me and ask me to be Julius Caesar or a romantic lead, but I think I'm a certain type of guy who looks a certain way, and that's just the reality of things.

I have never looked at myself as a star.

If I was Leo DiCaprio or someone similarly gifted and successful I wouldn't be writing. I'd be too busy acting in all the best scripts in town to try and write them!

If you were in Clint Eastwood movies, you were in the Clint Eastwood movie business. You weren't in the movie business. You weren't part of Hollywood. This became clear early on; people stopped calling. They automatically assumed I was working exclusively with Clint.

I was never destined to be a movie star, and I'm happy not being one.

Everybody tells me, 'You're famous.' And I answer, 'I'm not Angelina Jolie!'