Gwen Stefani Quotes

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.

Maybe I will end up in the movies.

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.

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

My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.

When New Kids became really successful, I got a lot of offers to do parts in movies and TV shows, but I was really busy, so I pretty much turned everything down. But I always knew it was something that I would eventually put some energy into.

I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.

Nowadays, kids... young actors... they go straight to L.A. before they've even done anything.

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'm vain enough to want do a movie again.

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

I've always loved film, and since I knew I probably couldn't be a cowboy or a spy in real life, I thought I'd play one in a movie! I started doing theater in middle school and tested for 'Victorious' before being in an episode of 'iCarly.'

Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

I'm not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job.

Hollywood has never been a goal, necessarily - there was no 'Conquer America' game plan for me.

I think, being a kid, you always think about being a movie star. And then as I got older, I started thinking about just the work.

I watched movies, obviously, just like anybody else, but there was nothing to make me think, 'I'm going to go to L.A. and become a movie star,' or anything like that.

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

I'm 27 years old. I'm going to go into Hollywood really arrogant. I'll be breaking a lot of rules. It's going to be hot.

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!

It's not like you do 'SNL' and then get handed movie roles. You work, you audition for stuff and try to get it. I think, a lot of people, it's the goal to be in movies or just to be working in general. But yeah, some of us get lucky and get some movie roles, and it's nice.

Who could have asked for anything better? I was cast in movies with great actors, with great leading men.

My family aren't performers. They're just normal people. They don't understand this entertainment world. They just think it's mental. They have no idea what I'm doing in America.

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.