Patti LuPone Quotes

I didn't aspire to be just a celebrity; I aspired to be an actress... I always wanted to be respected as someone who knew their craft.

I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because they've been on reality TV or something.

I'm always interested with other actors in what their process is, and are they still interested in acting, as opposed to being a star.

You know what actors are like. You can sometimes be like, 'Darling, darling, we love each other,' but you don't really know them.

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

I always wanted to be a good actress and a serious actress. I wasn't in the profession to, quote-unquote, meet the stars.

I don't consider myself - and I hope I'm never going to be - a 'movie star.' I'd like to be called an actor.

What's a celebrity anyway? Paris Hilton's a celebrity. I'm just a working actor.

I don't approach my acting as just saying a few lines and then going off-screen. It's a craft. I really invest in trying to make it a craft.

I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.

There's an art to being a good actor, there's an art to being a celebrity, and there's an art to longevity.

People say: 'Oh, it's only acting,' but it's not ever just acting. At least not with me.

I feel like I have a lot of dedication to the acting profession.

Every actor is a model to a certain extent, since they have to do so much press.

I guess I don't like the fact that my life is becoming less and less my own - the prevailing attitude that you have an obligation to deliver yourself to the public. Actually, you're delivered to the public whether you like it or not. I guess if you don't like it, you should stop doing what provokes it. In my case, that's acting.

The whole celebrity culture is super weird, but I'm part of it for some reason, and you kind of have to be as an actor to be successful.

Hanson is not the pop band that a lot of people think we are. I think we're a lot more rooted in a lot of music history... we're songwriters, we're singers, we're players first. We're not entertainers, we're not celebrities, and frankly, we don't really want to be.

I conduct myself as if I am a spaceman in Hollywood. I don't want to do anything fancy. I don't want people to send me free clothes. I just want to be grateful for this craft they let me do.

When you see my performances, even people that you might have known, like Nicky Barnes in 'American Gangster,' you have to get over the fact that I look like Cuba Gooding, Jr. But once you find truth in the performance, if I'm doing my job right, you believe everything.

I have no interest in being known as a celebrity; 'celebrity' is a pretty disgusting word. It's part of the brainwashing of the culture, part of the false idolatry of those that are only human, and I don't want to participate in that.

Acting is not a normal job, no, but I don't think that takes me out of the game as far as having had the experience of being a hard worker.

If you're going to do a thing, do it fully so that no writing you give the world misrepresents you - so that nothing you put out there is like a sad regift you couldn't throw away and had to find a place for.

I don't believe in stardom or in the number game. What I concentrate more is on my work and how I can improve my character.

Even great actors who transform who they are still go to a really honest place; I think that's sort of that special skill that actors have.

There are some athletes who I feel like are just looking for likes, and then there are people who are just real.