Morris Chestnut Quotes

You can't be a good actor if you get too affected by fame. Because then you're not real, and you're not really wanting more. You look at a lot of actors who, before they were famous, did a lot of amazing work, and once they got too big, it just got off.

You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.

There's an art to being a good actor, there's an art to being a celebrity, and there's an art to longevity.

There are parts that you can do them all your life, and no one knows you're even acting, and there are other parts which somehow - I think they say they 'pop' - people notice that you're in and you become an actor from the movies and people take you in a whole different way. Whether or not I can keep that ball rolling is another matter.

People expect it to be easy because there you are, out there, doing the thing that you want and making lots of money out of it. But, you know, I'm not that smooth. I can get clumsy around certain people. Like if I were to sit down and think, 'OK, I'm really famous, how am I going to conduct myself in public?' I wouldn't know who that person would be! It would be a lot easier if I could, but I can't.

What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.

If you just want to be a star, go away.

I'm not a star, I'm an actor.

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.

As a human being, Joan Crawford is a great actress.

Almost everything I tried out for I pretty much got. I landed Power Rangers, and the rest is history.

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

I don't think that I've had a career like anyone else's, but there are hosts and hosts of actors whose careers I admire.

I wouldn't want to be a superstar, like Julia Roberts or Madonna, and be on the cover of 'US' magazine when I'm twenty - that's how you know you're really hot. I'd rather have a long, respected career.

It wasn't a mission to be a rock star. It wasn't a mission of mine to even be a movie star. I just intended to be a good actor.

I didn't come to New York to be a star, I brought my star with me.

You have to be a star to be in this business.

I'm an actress, and that's why I'm still here. Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding themselves.

Being a leading man can come in many different forms.

We all know that a beautiful face is an important aspect of an actor's personality if he or she wants to make it big in Bollywood.

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 think if you're a good songwriter, that's what you are first - not a star or celebrity.

I didn't want to be a big star. I wanted to be a really good actor.

I really admire actresses like Meryl Streep; I would love to have a career like hers.

I'm certainly not going to play any of Matt Damon's roles in the future. But he will eventually grow into mine, since he'll be around for a long time.