Randy Harrison Quotes

I want to be an actor - I don't want to be a celebrity. They are two different things, and people have forgotten that they are different.

What is protecting me is that it is not a finality being an actress. I really think we tend to idealize this job a lot. When you're an actress and you're really famous, it means people believe you are on top of the world - and I think that's not true.

To be an icon is a big job - it's beyond acting. And sometimes it pays, and sometimes it doesn't.

What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.

I want to prove to people that I'm an actor and not just a character.

If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.

I've felt the pressure of wanting to be known as a young actress rather than just Alisha from 'Misfits'.

I didn't want to be known as the reality-show star trying to be an actress, so I kept a lot of the failed auditions to myself.

I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.

I've been doing my job for a long time and I never really thought about being an actress or being anything like that. I was always a bit scared as well because of the thing about models becoming an actress and all that. I just never really took it seriously.

I think that, in the beginning, you think, 'I want to be the biggest movie star in the world.' And then, with the more movies you make, you are like, 'I don't know if I want to be that anymore. I think what I am looking for is something different.' I like acting, but a lot of times, stardom comes with a lot of strings attached.

Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up?

To become a star is the beginning of the end. I don't really want to be saddled with a screen persona.

I'm an actress, not a celebrity.

All of the press and stuff - that's the scary stuff. The acting is what I got trained to do.

I try not to live in the future too much; that can make you crazy as an actor. There are so many people who are obsessed about their career path, like it's something which you can control, which fundamentally you can't.

When you become a public figure, you still think, 'That's really not me; there's more to me than that.'

If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

I do love being an actress. The other stuff, the 'fame', well - you know what? - you don't actually have to buy into it if you don't want to.

I've been working as an actress since I was very young, and I know a lot of people who are actors who don't have to deal with having a persona... You know, if you look up the word persona, it isn't even real. The whole meaning of the word is that it's made up, and it's like I didn't even get to make up my own. It can be annoying.

I'm not going to be the next Colin Farrell or Orlando Bloom.

I wasn't like, 'I want to be famous.' I just wanted to be an actor. I wasn't chasing anything. I was never stressed or worried. I never had any fear of rejection or not making it, anything like that.

Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!

I don't just wanna be James Franco's little brother.

I know I walk a fine line between being a respected actor and being what they call a sex symbol.