Cesar Romero Quotes

I used to want to be a movie star so I wouldn't have to live in trailers anymore. And now that I make movies, I spend a lot of my life living in trailers.

When you're a kid, I think you want to be a film star. And I'm not as enamoured with that any more. The reality of that life is a lot of travel, and a lot of being away, which is impractical because I have four children, so I don't want to be away that much, not the other side of the world away.

After 'Gremlins' came out, I should have packed up everything, moved to Los Angeles from New York, and dedicated myself to being a full time film actor. I had the world at my feet.

I've always loved film, and since I knew I probably couldn't be a cowboy or a spy in real life, I thought I'd play one in a movie! I started doing theater in middle school and tested for 'Victorious' before being in an episode of 'iCarly.'

Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

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'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

I never really thought I wanted to become a movie star.

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

I had no dream of being a movie star.

Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match.

I didn't want to chase movies. It's too hard. You've got to work at it - opening nights, photo shoots, publicity people, managers. I never wanted to do that. I'm too lazy.

I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.

I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick.

Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.

I don't have any massive ambitions to be a movie star.

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?

We always thought that we'd go on from the show to have a career in movies.

Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.

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'm not the Hollywood type. I'm not going to pack up my bags and let me move to Hollywood and stuff like that.

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

My own aunt was Merle Oberon, so movie stardom was not a faraway mystery to me as a child: it was part of the family business.

I think, being a kid, you always think about being a movie star. And then as I got older, I started thinking about just the work.