Robin Williams Quotes

I would rather be called a character actor than a star.

I was the leading star in 1945. I slowed down my pace of acting assignments after I came into direction.

A whole new career opened up for me when I was in 'Lord Of The Rings' and 'Star Wars.'

My career plan at this point is 'Ice Age 5' through '10,' and even '12,' and 'Spider Man' - you know, basically I'd be Emma Stone's dad for the rest of my career. I really don't have any problem doing that.

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

When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.

I never thought about the actors on television or film, like what kind of life they had.

People call me a movie star. If you're in the business, a movie star is someone who can make a film bankable. My name and $6 million will make a $6 million movie. I'm a working actor. Because I started late, I had a very short run as a leading man, and my films didn't make money in America.

Who could have asked for anything better? I was cast in movies with great actors, with great leading men.

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.

I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.

I wish I could just be in the movies and still enjoy everything else like a normal person.

I'm envious of actors. You shoot a movie or you do a season of 'Big Love,' and then you're on hiatus and you have a bunch of free time.

I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.

I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films.

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actor's always an actor until he does a movie-star part.

I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.

I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.

I don't see myself being an actress forever.

Growing up, I always had my dreams set on being an actor, so I looked up to Julia Roberts, Audrey Hepburn.

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

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 am no champion, no great name, just a small actor who loves working for cinema.