Henry Golding Quotes

I always wanted to be a leading man!

Being a leading man can come in many different forms.

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

Nobody paid any attention career-wise to me in America until 'Bronson.' It gave me a calling card and passage into America, where I've always wanted to work.

Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me.

I always say: you're not going to find Hollywood. Hollywood will find you! But I'm ready for it: for Hollywood, for Bollywood, for everything!

We always thought that we'd go on from the show to have a career in movies.

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.

It's so odd because I don't even know if I'm cut out for it, but being a movie star guy, I sort of end up gravitating toward the Coen brothers. That's one of the reasons my wife and I moved to L.A.: that however much of a pipe dream that would be, I moved to L.A. because I'd love to work with the Coen brothers.

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

Ideally, I'd like to go right back to getting $7 million a picture and being the headliner. That's probably not going to happen.

I have never really had a goal to be a true blue movie star, unlike a lot of my colleagues.

I didn't always know that I want to be an actor, but I always knew I wanted to be famous in anything that I do.

Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

I have to make my bones with Hollywood to get in. And when I do maybe I'll metamorphose from Mr. Muscles or whatever it is I am now and become an irascible tosser.

Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.

I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career.

I've just been lucky. I'd like to have more choices, and I'd like to have a leading part.

Well, I'd love to work with Kate Winslet - she's amazing.

People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.

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

I had no dream of being a movie star.

Not many people get to play the lead character in a gigantic film and model for Ralph Lauren; it's amazing.

Would I like to be the lead girl? Who wouldn't?