Brian Ortega Quotes

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

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.

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.

If you are the kind of guy who draws in 100 million people to see his film, you've got every right to be paid accordingly, but I qualify as a character actor. I don't put a bum on a seat.

'Leading man' just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

I would love to play the lead in a big romantic comedy. That's definitely a dream of mine.

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.

Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.

For me to get a lead role in a real movie is something to jump at. It's not like I get to do that all of the time.

Ideally, I'd like to go right back to getting $7 million a picture and being the headliner. That's probably not going to happen.

I will only do a Bollywood film if I am offered the main lead role.

When you have a movie that has big stars in it... like, Will Smith does a great job in 'I Am Legend,' and it's a magnetic performance, but he's always Will Smith. That's not his fault. That's not anyone's fault. He's the center of it, and he's a movie star. But when you see something like 'Jurassic Park,' Sam Neill is Alan Grant.

There was a time when the directors would sign me first and then go to the hero. There was a time when on my name a film used to be sold.

I came to the UFC to make history.

I won a lot of money in UFC. I earned that money. The money wasn't given to me as a present. I earned every dollar of it.

Stars are always bigger. They bring the audience to the theatres. More than that, they do a lot of work in a film, and they are always on top. I am in no way competing with them.

When I first started, I lived in Vegas because I was fighting in the UFC, and I was still fighting after the UFC.

I think if you have any desire to be a leading man or to really carry some of these stories, there's this relationship that has to be cultivated with an audience. People have to be able to say your name.

I do feel that I have the capacity to carry a full film on my shoulder.

The UFC was the black spot in my career and my life.

Everyone wants to be UFC champion, and that's my goal and my dream.

As the UFC was getting bigger and bigger, I realized it was a potential career there, and that's what I did.

Personally, I believe that playing the lead antagonist is always better than a character artiste, whose weightage isn't much.

If a movie requires the lead actor to spend a good chunk of his onscreen time talking to himself, and Popeye is unavailable because of contractual disputes, it's hard to do better than Johnny Depp.

My father Arun Ahuja was an actor, and he did films as a hero.