Jyoti Amge Quotes

There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.

You can either be a movie star or an actor. I'm an actor.

I pursued a theatre career, and Hollywood came calling.

There's a certain thought process about actors that they are in Hollywood and they sit around pools and get suntans and just get offered jobs.

All I ever wanted was a successful career as an actress.

Like a lot of girls, even I have this dream of being in the movies, and like any actor, I need to grow.

With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.

As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'

No one from my town has ever become a model or an actor before.

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

Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn't really be interesting to me.

I don't want a Hollywood career. It's wonderful to have the possibility in your life just to win a role in a Clint Eastwood film, and you are the happiest person in the world.

Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

I don't want to say, 'I want to be in Hollywood,' like so many actors do, but I know that Hollywood is still making good movies, and I'd like to be part of that someday.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved... or star in a movie.

I was scouted at the age of 10 by a Hollywood agent. I was a really shy, geeky-looking thing, and started in the industry by doing 'extra' work on films.

The only reason I'm an actor is that a lady pulled out of a parking space in front of a producer's office.

I'm still waiting for my first big Hollywood paycheck... maybe I'll play a superhero.

You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.

I always knew I'd be an actor. I always knew I'd at least be on a big screen somewhere.

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

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.

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

It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

I would die if Woody Allen ever called and said, 'Emma, I have a role for you.'