Grace Kelly Quotes

I think in some ways I'm quite lucky to be living in London, there's this certain separation from the movie business. In that way, it's been quite easy to separate acting and going back to a normal life.

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.

I have actor friends, but they're not famous. I feel like if you're an actor or - famous, you have to overly prove that you're a normal, cool person.

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.

The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

I grew up with actors, so I never thought of them as anything but human - sort of horribly, inextricably human.

I'm not especially interested in actors or their life, double, triple identities and all that.

Even when I was little, people would always ask me if I wanted to be a movie star, and I would always say, 'No, I just want to be an actor.'

When I'm in Los Angeles, sometimes I hesitate saying that I'm an actor because people are like, 'Of course you are.' And I'm like 'No,' not, 'Of course I am.' In L.A., being an actor is like a pastime: everybody there is like, 'I was on this reality show; I'm an actor.' It becomes a word that is loosely thrown around.

Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same.

I don't think of myself as a New York actor; I think about this guy who's an actor who happens to be from New York.

You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.

In L.A., I was meeting people who were all actors. My mind started to open up to what acting was. I didn't realize that Brad Pitt was a real person. I didn't think he was a robot or a machine, but I thought you were just born into acting - that it's a family tree, kind of like NASCAR. No one can just say, 'Hey, I'm going to be a NASCAR driver.'

I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.

I think Hollywood is interesting. As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.

When I went back to New York with somewhat of a name, they didn't want movie actresses.

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

I think that, in the beginning, you think, 'I want to be the biggest movie star in the world.' And then, with the more movies you make, you are like, 'I don't know if I want to be that anymore. I think what I am looking for is something different.' I like acting, but a lot of times, stardom comes with a lot of strings attached.

I want to be an actress, not a personality.

I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor.

I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.

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.

My favorite question is 'What do you do?' I'm like, 'I'm a walking cliche: I'm a model and an actress.'

I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.