Dree Hemingway Quotes

I want to be an actor - I don't want to be a celebrity. They are two different things, and people have forgotten that they are different.

This whole celebrity racket, it's not really my bag. I don't really do that stuff, and I am not looking to get famous myself. I would love it if my characters get famous, my work was well known and appreciated. But I'm an actor, not a spokes model or a celebrity or whatever that is. I don't know how to be that.

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 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.

My family aren't performers. They're just normal people. They don't understand this entertainment world. They just think it's mental. They have no idea what I'm doing in America.

I don't even take myself seriously, so how could I possibly take Hollywood seriously?

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

I never really thought I wanted to become a movie star.

I didn't choose to be an actress.

In my mid-20s, I was directing episodes of 'Alfred Hitchcock' and 'Peter Gunn.' I was pretty much on course and - as I sometimes joke - was prepared to devote my life to become the second best film director in my family.

You'd be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work.

My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.

I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.

I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!

I'm not particularly good at 'celebrity'; I don't think it was something I was born to do. I think I can get by as an actor, but I've never been one for the red carpet and don't put a lot of stock in celebrities that are famous for being famous.

I didn't grow up knowing actors' names, and my parents weren't theater people.

I didn't plan on going into show business. Show business picked me. And it's been fun. One of the best things about being in show business is people think they know me, and they feel like they grew up with me.

Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.

I went to Broadway and I've been doing some fun guest spots with 'Entourage' and 'Glee' and I'm ready to have my own show.

I'm an actress, not a celebrity.

I'd never really considered film. If I'd thought about film more growing up, I probably would have changed my name. I had no concept of my name in lights.

Hollywood is my day job.

Nowadays, kids... young actors... they go straight to L.A. before they've even done anything.