Kellan Lutz Quotes

I've been in enough films where the studio wanted that extra little cuteness to make it sellable.

This sounds weird, but when you have a male fan base, you pretty much know you are going to be okay until you're an old, crispy dude, because they're not buying your films because you're sexy.

Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and a solid script. It needs to be marketed well. It's the package that sells - the songs, action, actors, etc.

My past films came out on home entertainment in the U.S., so the next question was, how do we get a theatrical in the U.S.? Well, you put a monster in it. That will do it, because people love monster movies.

The only way to ensure a film is going to sell is put Will Smith in it and you open it in 3,000 theaters and make sure we have all the top promotional spots in each venue.

I would never know how to sell myself as a sex symbol. That's not how I'm programmed.

Sex appeal is a good thing for commercial cinema. Though I can't sit at home and consider myself a sex symbol, it is for people to do so. I want to be known as an interesting actor.

You want women to think of you in a sexy manner. It's all part of the business. It drives ticket sales. It's all a part of it.

You can be mediocre, the way most actors are, and you can still be a top movie star, even if your movies are boring and predictable. All you have to do is know how to sell yourself, let yourself be manufactured.

I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable being considered a sex symbol, especially after you work with someone like George Clooney.

These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty; they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.

But what's interesting is now - and not only in horror, but across the board - the studios basically only make B pictures with A budgets. That's the biggest difference.

Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

I know doing movies is where I need to be. That's where my audience wants to see me.

A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.

I think it's always hard to find great roles, no matter what age you are. So I always say to people, 'You have to remember that Hollywood is in the business of making movies that they can sell tickets to; they're not in the business of finding great roles for actors.'

If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.

Maybe one day I'll have a big hit, and the world will make a big sex symbol out of me like they always do when there's a new chick.

Everybody's trying to make blockbusters.

There's a sense most notably with my movies that for people to turn up, and make them big, you have to have a celebrity status. But it's not a choice I've made. It comes to you.

It strikes me as very odd for someone to think, 'You know what, if I put on a bikini, I may shift some more records,' but it happens. If people are comfortable with that, fine, but it's not something that would ever cross my mind.

There was a time when the directors would sign me first and then go to the hero. There was a time when on my name a film used to be sold.

You throw a rock in Hollywood and you're going to hit someone in the film industry.

Nobody can link the success of a movie with a particular artiste.