Portia Doubleday Quotes

Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.

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

It's an actor's dream to only have one line, and people like him, so I'm really lucky.

Would I like to be the lead girl? Who wouldn't?

Nobody paid any attention career-wise to me in America until 'Bronson.' It gave me a calling card and passage into America, where I've always wanted to work.

If you can figure out my success on the screen, you're a better man than I.

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

When I was just a girl in Sydney, no one thought, 'Oh, she's going to be a movie star.' No one. I had to get by with actual skill and talent.

I was not a child star. I was more like a young auditioner.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be the girl next door. I came to be a movie star.

I never really felt like a movie star until 'Police Woman.'

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

It is because of Navketan that I became a movie star.

From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.

Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.

I remember when I got a part on 'Seinfeld' it was like an out of body experience, I was so excited.

I used to beg for auditions. Now, they're being thrown at me.

I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.

I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career.

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.

John Hawkes is amazing. I really want to meet that man; he's so good. Him and Ben Foster, and I'm a big fan of Nick Stahl - those are my three guys.

I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.

I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.