Robin Wright Quotes

I knew very early on that I wasn't Brad Pitt.

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

I have been in this industry for over a decade, and I still don't consider myself a movie star.

No, I never thought of it in those terms. I used to go into agents' offices and they'd have pictures of these handsome movie men and I knew I'd never be up there. I'm a journeyman actor. I didn't think about stardom.

Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.

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

That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in motion pictures. pictures.

I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.

There's a sense most notably with my movies that for people to turn up, and make them big, you have to have a celebrity status. But it's not a choice I've made. It comes to you.

I'm not an actor who is trying to be a movie star.

If I was Leo DiCaprio or someone similarly gifted and successful I wouldn't be writing. I'd be too busy acting in all the best scripts in town to try and write them!

The Rock has come back; he's been cool with me, and I have nothing against him at all. He's achieved everything in WWE, and of course, he's achieved everything in Hollywood. It's a huge success story.

This may sound strange, but I did not join the film industry to be a star and be successful.

I'm ready to go up to the Danny Glover level.

I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.

I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act.

If you are the kind of guy who draws in 100 million people to see his film, you've got every right to be paid accordingly, but I qualify as a character actor. I don't put a bum on a seat.

I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.

It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.

To be the leading man it's about the celebrity and the looks, and it's tough to do that. People who do it great are people like Tom Cruise and Will Smith - they're built for that. I ain't. I'm more of a character guy.

'The Stand' came out in May of '94 and was seen by 60 million people a night for four nights, and then two months later, 'Forrest Gump' opened. So within a very short time, I went from being depressed about not getting any work to being in two of the most popular shows of the year.

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.

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

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