Timothy Simons Quotes

I left Canada to come to Hollywood to make movies.

Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!

I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move there. It's very much an industry town and that doesn't really interest me.

I had no dream of being a movie star.

I would love to work with Julia Roberts at some point.

I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.

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.

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.

Ariana Grande was on a TV show, and then she started her career singing. If I'm offered a TV show, I'm going to pursue that and then see if I can push my singing. And then if I push my singing, awesome. My biggest goal, though? Be an actress in movies. I would love to have a career like Meryl Streep's someday.

If my goal is to become a movie star, me working at a pizza shop won't help me. I have to make the stars align.

I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.

I'm not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job.

When I was young, all I wanted to be was a movie star. At a certain point, I started to grow up and really care about what I did.

Being an action star is all I had ever hoped to be. I ultimately knew I would be an action star.

I really admire actresses like Meryl Streep; I would love to have a career like hers.

I don't think I have ever thought of myself as a movie star. I think when I was about seven, I thought it must be lovely to have an Oscar. But the more involved you are in this business, the more that pretence disappears, and you really get to see what you love about it, and what I love is working.

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 watched movies, obviously, just like anybody else, but there was nothing to make me think, 'I'm going to go to L.A. and become a movie star,' or anything like that.

Maybe I will end up in the movies.

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

If I get a call from Imtiaz Ali or Zoya Akhtar to star in their films, I won't think twice.

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

Oh absolutely. I had the pleasure to get to know a lot of really talented young actors before they even really hit it big. And yet what we all had and shared in common was a love for movies.

My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.

Well, I'd love to work with Kate Winslet - she's amazing.