Camryn Manheim Quotes

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

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.

Like a lot of girls, even I have this dream of being in the movies, and like any actor, I need to grow.

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

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

When I start doing movies, that'll be the time to pack Vine in. Quit when you're on top. Be the king.

Could you ever call me a 'leading man?' Not really. It's not that I don't want leading man roles, but there's only so many, and they want Tom Hanks, not me.

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

I'm here to carve out a strong career in the leading-man space.

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.

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

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.

I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.

I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.

I had wanted to be a movie star and had thought I would be a movie star since I was very little. It was just something I saw in my future. But somehow when it happened, I wasn't ready for it.

You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.

I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals.

Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

I don't want to say, 'I want to be in Hollywood,' like so many actors do, but I know that Hollywood is still making good movies, and I'd like to be part of that someday.

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

I quit doing the movies because the wrestling was going so good and was so on fire during the '80s and '90s, but I was getting all these movie scripts.