David Carradine Quotes

The thing about many celebrities - not all - is that they're fantastic actors.

I suppose it's whether you want to be a famous person, or whether you want to be an actor. You have to decide what your priorities are. Great actor, huge star. Sometimes, the two walk hand in hand. Most of the time, they don't.

But I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century.

I want to be known as a desirable actress who can perform - that's something I strive to be.

All actors may not be stars, but all stars are actors, and I can vouch for that.

I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I wanted to be an actor.

Being a movie star is a quality that somebody sort of embodies, and being a celebrity is something that people give to you. It has to do with being recognizable, as opposed to something that people recognize in you. I just hope to make good movies. I know that sounds simple, but it's true.

If I weren't doing what I'm doing now, the actress thing, the star business, if you want to call it that, whatever it is, I'd be in an asylum. I'm sure of it.

That's the reason you want to become a star as an actor, to be able to have more control of your destiny.

Dustin Hoffman said this one time, that if he hadn't made it as a film star, he would still be happy as a character actor because he was a character actor because of his face from day one, so he would always work in the theater.

You never know where you're going to find a great actor.

I think all good actors are personalities. If they're not, they're not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.

Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.

I always wanted to be a movie star. I thought it meant being famous and having breakfast in bed. I didn't know you had to be up at 4:00 a.m.

My Mother's an actress, and she's always told me, "Boy, you're an actor." I would look forward to seeing if I'm any good. I want to be good at it, that's the only thing.

Every day, every scene, you were like, "My god. I'm doing a scene with Brian Cox today and then I'm onto a scene with Stephen Rea." For us young actors, I think we were all very, very star-struck and impressed by the caliber of everyone who came out.

I never envisioned myself being a film star at all. Most people know that pro wrestling is a little bit of an accident for me. I never really had any real aspirations of being in front of a camera.

I think I'm a better comedic actress than I am a dramatic actress, but everybody believes I'm this dramatic actress and I'll take it.

I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.

Having grown up in the theater family, having done a huge amount of acting from a very little boy to precocious teenager in Shakespeare festivals that my father produced, I went off to college and fell in with the theater gang. I was already an experienced actor. I became a kind of campus star. I heard all this applause and laughter.

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.

I'm going to be a great movie star some day.

It so cliché to say some guys and girls need to step up, but there can be bigger stars and bigger names when people get their chance.

The ones who become stars or superstars are the ones who have a head on their shoulders and know how to use it.

Filmmakers tell actors to adjust their body language, and the famous presence of the actor is his or her body language. That is what makes them special and a movie star. An actor's capital is his body.