Kristine Opolais Quotes

I left Canada to come to Hollywood to make movies.

I definitely want to do movies and stuff.

I don't have any massive ambitions to be a movie star.

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 grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker.

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

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

A man becomes what he dreams. And I dreamed of being in the movies. I was brought up on Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, and Cary Grant.

I dreamed of doing stuff like Will Smith and films on a big scale.

I always loved movies. I wanted to be in them! I always saw them and said, 'How do you do that?' It seemed like going to the moon. It was not a rational thought, but that's the only thing I wanted to do.

To be employed in the entertainment industry is a miracle.

I never had any idea of going into movies.

To try to crack into Hollywood, it's a dream come true.

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.

I'm going to be a movie star, break Hollywood.

I didn't always know that I want to be an actor, but I always knew I wanted to be famous in anything that I do.

I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.

I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.

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!

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.

I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.

I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.

Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought - I want to sell out!