James Michael Tyler Quotes

I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didn't have to be a gigolo. In real life.

A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.

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

I had no dream of being a movie star.

Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me.

I had some issues. When I first had to deal with being in 'Star Wars,' you know, who wouldn't?

The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren't they?

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star.

I didn't get into this for fame, I genuinely didn't. I love acting, and I know that's a cliche, but I didn't, really, I was very naive when it came to the whole being recognized thing.

I moved to L.A., because that's where they point cameras at you. And that's what I'd like them to do.

Everybody wants to be a movie star. I bet if you ask that guy would he like to be a movie star, he'd say, 'Sure.'

I'm glad that I didn't get a part in 'Scream 2' and become a star in 1995.

I don't have any interest in being a movie star.

I'm a fan of Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and all these people. If I could end up like Jonah Hill, winding up in a Brad Pitt movie, that would be awesome.

I watched movies, obviously, just like anybody else, but there was nothing to make me think, 'I'm going to go to L.A. and become a movie star,' or anything like that.

I want to be known for this character on TV two nights a week, and then I want to go away and live my life in private.

I have decided to take on substantial roles. I'm even ready to take on roles which give prominence to glamour; I have absolutely no qualms in doing so.

I don't want to be Angelina Jolie. Not that Angelina Jolie is not the most talented, beautiful, successful, amazing, admirable person who does good things for the world, but I don't want to be a movie star like that.

I always knew I was going to be successful in some way with films. I don't know why. I had no particular talent, but I always knew I was going to be sitting in a dining room with Lucille Ball and at a cocktail party with Bette Davis.

Partying and having all of those pictures taken distracts from the work that I do. It's not why I started acting. I didn't get into acting to be written about. It kind of just happened - so I accept that it's my life.

It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized... It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to... In L.A., I'm just another character actor.

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

I get recognized now and again, but the paparazzi aren't following me around.

Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.