Priyanka Chopra Quotes

I had wanted to be a movie star and had thought I would be a movie star since I was very little. It was just something I saw in my future. But somehow when it happened, I wasn't ready for it.

How did I end up in films with people like Keira Knightley... all these beautiful leading ladies and me - it's kind of shocking.

I was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened.

I didn't want to escape my life and become a big actress and live my dreams. That was never the way it was; it was just these amazing opportunities that happened.

I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I wanted to be an actor.

Being an actress wasn't a plan at all, so what's happened to me is very strange. Life isn't very normal, even though I'm still very much a normal girl. I ride the subway, I ride the bus, and all of that.

I don't want fame as far as the tweeting or the image of it. But, the idea of being famous is actually exciting to me, just because then you can have a choice in what you do. I would like to be at a point where I'm not asking for parts anymore, and I'm actually just choosing between a part that I want to do.

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

My celebrity has held steady since the day I began acting. I don't view it as celebrity. I'm just a worker.

Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.

I have actor friends, but they're not famous. I feel like if you're an actor or - famous, you have to overly prove that you're a normal, cool person.

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

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

I did 'The Karate Kid,' then I just went back to college. I didn't know how much money it made and I didn't have a publicist. I didn't have any sense of the business part of it.

I think Hollywood is interesting. As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.

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

I think a lot of people, if they get the opportunity to do some acting, they think, 'I might be a star.'

I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor.

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

You really are as hot as your last movie. And it goes away really quickly.

Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.

When I went back to New York with somewhat of a name, they didn't want movie actresses.

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

Every actor dreams of getting a big break, a big opportunity.

And people are always saying: 'Well, you go to Hollywood and you get yourself a film career or a TV series, and then you can do anything you want. Because then you've got the clout.' That had always sounded like a lot of hooey to me, but now I think it's true, unfortunately.