Victoria Pratt Quotes

It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

Ideally, I'd like to go right back to getting $7 million a picture and being the headliner. That's probably not going to happen.

I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.

I had no dream of being a movie star.

I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals.

I don't have real big aspirations to be a movie star. I would love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up playing a defining role.

I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films.

I'm vain enough to want do a movie again, but right now more roles are the last thing on my list.

Could you ever call me a 'leading man?' Not really. It's not that I don't want leading man roles, but there's only so many, and they want Tom Hanks, not me.

Hollywood has never been a goal, necessarily - there was no 'Conquer America' game plan for me.

I have never really had a goal to be a true blue movie star, unlike a lot of my colleagues.

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 knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn't necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor. But I wanted to be somewhere where there would be no ceiling on what I could accomplish, and I felt like if I stayed in St. Louis I might have a really great regional theater career or something, but that I wasn't going to be able to get much further than that. And it felt like New York and L.A. were the two places where you could end up being a TV star or you could end up doing regional theater, which would have been fine as well.

I had wanted to be a movie star and had thought I would be a movie star since I was very little. It was just something I saw in my future. But somehow when it happened, I wasn't ready for it.

It was like there's got to be some way to stay working and stay productive in Los Angeles. TV is that kind of thing for an actor. Unless you get stuck in one of these shows where you have to go to Vancouver.

I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.

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.

Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me.

When you're a kid, you think 'Oh, it's so great. I'm going to go to Hollywood. I'm going to go to Broadway.' For a long time, it was such a novelty.

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

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

I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work.

I would love a recurring role on '90210.' I would say yes to just about any role in acting that doesn't tarnish my image.

When I first moved out to Los Angeles I was thinking, you know, I wanted to be an actor but I didn't really know what acting was about. I thought if I could be a model, or even do commercials and stuff like that for the rest of my life, I'd be happy.

Ariana Grande was on a TV show, and then she started her career singing. If I'm offered a TV show, I'm going to pursue that and then see if I can push my singing. And then if I push my singing, awesome. My biggest goal, though? Be an actress in movies. I would love to have a career like Meryl Streep's someday.