Stephen Fry Quotes

Sex appeal is a good thing for commercial cinema. Though I can't sit at home and consider myself a sex symbol, it is for people to do so. I want to be known as an interesting actor.

To be the leading man it's about the celebrity and the looks, and it's tough to do that. People who do it great are people like Tom Cruise and Will Smith - they're built for that. I ain't. I'm more of a character guy.

Of course there are some models who are not good, but it has been proven that some models can act. Look at Kim Basinger, Sharon Stone or Andie MacDowell, who were all models - they are really fantastic actresses.

I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

You have to be very, very good looking to get ahead in motion pictures.

There are thousands of good-looking women out there. Longevity for a heroine doesn't come only with good looks: talent matters.

It is very important for an actor to look physically attractive.

I'm very grateful that I'm the kind of actor where I'm not some character actor. I can't disappear into a world.

To be successful in Bollywood, one needs a certain body type.

I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent.

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.

I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world.

Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.

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.'

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

I think musicians oftentimes have the right skill set to be good actors. And with Rihanna, I noticed her and knew of her obviously, and was very taken with her charisma and her confidence.

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty.

I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.

Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.

I saw Cate Blanchett in 'Big and Small,' and it was mind-blowing. The fact that she can do theatre and is also a huge movie star is really exciting.

Isn't that the definition of a star? Someone who can get a film made?

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

I'll never be the biggest kind of star; I'll be like Bob Duvall, respected as an actor but a lot of people can't identify the face. I don't have the personality of a big star, or the looks of a Mel Gibson or a Paul Newman, or the style of a George C. Scott.