Famke Janssen Quotes

Inside every TV star is a movie star screaming to get out, and Donna Frenzel, with whom I'm guessing you're not instantly familiar, made George Clooney a movie star once and for all in the first ten minutes of his fifth feature, 1998's 'Out of Sight.'

To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example.

I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie.

You can be the lead in a movie just for the sake of being a lead in a movie, or you can just be in a good movie.

With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.

I would rather be called a character actor than a star.

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 every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

I'm blessed to have cool roles in these big movies.

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.

If you work with big stars, then they become the lead actors. It's not that I don't want to do films with big stars, but I would rather do the films where I get the title roles.

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.

I see myself more as a character actress than a celebrity.

I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.

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.

I don't have real big aspirations to be a movie star. I would love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up playing a defining role.

I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films.

After 'Gremlins' came out, I should have packed up everything, moved to Los Angeles from New York, and dedicated myself to being a full time film actor. I had the world at my feet.

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

I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.

But obviously you don't want to just be the guy who comes in and sort of spices up every movie. So yeah, definitely moving into more of a leading man role would be great, but on my own terms.

I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.

I didn't have this feeling that I should be a leading actor in the cinema. And I wouldn't want the responsibility of the opening weekend.

It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.