Huma Qureshi Quotes

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

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.

Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought - I want to sell out!

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.

I've got something to live for, because I always wanted to be an artist; I always wanted to be famous.

I am going to be a great actress.

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are different.

You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.

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.

Keep doing what you're doing. Don't be afraid of fame.

When I first moved to L.A., I went walking down the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and I would tell myself, 'One day, I'm going to have my own star.'

I always wanted to come into the spotlight. I always had dreams and plans of doing my own thing and creating my own image, so it came a little sooner than I thought it would but this is still something I knew I would be going through and would have to experience.

I pray to God every day that he makes me the biggest superstar, but before that, I ask God to make me a good actor. Being a star is hard, but being an actor is even harder. I want to be both before I am done.

I've worked with a lot of great, glamorous girls in movies and the theater. They would always give their last ounce to get where they wanted to be.

Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!

Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.

I'm not in a real rush to be a big star.

I discovered that I act because I really love to act. I don't act because maybe it will get me a magazine cover or that I can get on a talk show.

If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.

I always wanted to be good at something, to be somebody. The minute I got into my first play, which was called ''Excuse My Dust' - I was 17 at the time - I knew that this was what I'd been looking for.

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

It's not my ambition to be a big star.

I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.

I never thought I would be singing for the world.