Amanda Bynes Quotes

I love to star in movies, but I want to have good roles. It doesn't help to get starring roles in something that's no good. I mean, that will just kill you.

If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.

I want what's mine. I see other actors who are doing very interesting roles, and I just want to continue to do things that are interesting, and things that people will go see in theaters.

I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.

I always wanted to be an actor, and I wanted to be a part of good movies. Wherever I get to do these two things, it's enough for me.

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.

The hardest thing to do in movies is be a day-part player. You have to go in, make your mark, and get out. There's a lot of leading actors who are not good for a lot of a movie, and then suddenly they have good moments, and they're like stepping-stones across a particularly feisty stream. They build careers out of that.

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 just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

I started in TV movies and then had success in my move to features with 'Night Shift' and 'Splash'.

I just make good movies. That's the way I thank my fans.

Sometimes I do movies that aren't any good, or sometimes I might not be any good in them, or sometimes they don't do very well.

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've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.

It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.

At the end, it's your movie and your performance that stands out. So if I am a good actor, and if am being part of good entertaining engaging films, audiences will like me.

I am not saying that I won't do big commercial films.

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

I want to do comedy films, serious films - I admire the actors who fly under the radar but get loads done, pop up in a lot of good films.

There's not a lot of good movies being made.

That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.

When they're good, there is nothing like a big film.

Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema.

'Crush' was my first number one on the call sheet.

I can only hope that my future movies will do well.