Denzel Washington Quotes

What’s the difference between and actor and a movie star. An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

I'm kind of glad that I was able to properly grow up before becoming a massive movie star.

I'm not a movie star and I know that.

I can never describe myself as a movie star. I don't know when that happens but it's certainly not me.

To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself.

I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.

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

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.

When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.

I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.

For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

I enjoy being a character actor; I enjoy being different in everything. I want a private life; I want to be able to go to 7-11 and not get into a fight with a guy because he saw me in a movie, or not have people hitting on me simply because they saw me in a movie.

I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.

When I was just a girl in Sydney, no one thought, 'Oh, she's going to be a movie star.' No one. I had to get by with actual skill and talent.

Everybody wants to be a movie star. I bet if you ask that guy would he like to be a movie star, he'd say, 'Sure.'

I'm not a movie star, but I still get my photograph taken when I walk down the street, hundreds of times. I never say no.

Being a movie star is a quality that somebody sort of embodies, and being a celebrity is something that people give to you. It has to do with being recognizable, as opposed to something that people recognize in you. I just hope to make good movies. I know that sounds simple, but it's true.

I love acting and I know that's a cliché, but I didn't really, I was very naïve when it came to the whole being recognized thing.

I loved acting. I didn’t particularly like being a movie star.

I wanted to be famous, I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard, and my dream came true.

Being a movie star is stressful as hell. You've got to do crunches all day long. You've got to get up and learn lines.

The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.

Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.

You know, there's a moment when you're famous when it's unbearable to go out because you're too famous. And then there's a moment when you're famous just right.

Fame, or notoriety, whichever that special noise may be called when the world like a hound 'gives tongue' and announces that the quarry in some form of genius is at bay, is apt to increase its clamor in proportion to the aloofness of the pursued animal.