Matthew McConaughey Quotes

I'd say specifically after 'Get Smart,' people now know me either as The Guy from 'Get Smart' or 'She's Out of My League.' When that came out on DVD, everyone was recognizing me from that.

I was the leading star in 1945. I slowed down my pace of acting assignments after I came into direction.

Inside every TV star is a movie star screaming to get out, and Donna Frenzel, with whom I'm guessing you're not instantly familiar, made George Clooney a movie star once and for all in the first ten minutes of his fifth feature, 1998's 'Out of Sight.'

It is because of Navketan that I became a movie star.

The Rock has come back; he's been cool with me, and I have nothing against him at all. He's achieved everything in WWE, and of course, he's achieved everything in Hollywood. It's a huge success story.

I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.

With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.

I don't really have aspirations to be Tom Hanks.

I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write and direct, and also act in films, although he's primarily an actor.

Catherine Zeta-Jones started out like me. Her big break in Hollywood was in 'Zorro.'

I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.

But obviously you don't want to just be the guy who comes in and sort of spices up every movie. So yeah, definitely moving into more of a leading man role would be great, but on my own terms.

'Crush' was my first number one on the call sheet.

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.

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.

Only the film industry can make you an overnight success. Unlike other jobs where you have to work your way up, here you can reach dizzying heights of fame instantly.

I was one of the assistant dancers of 'Race' 10 years ago, and now I am one of the lead actors of 'Race 3,' where I have got a chance to share screen space with some of the legends of our country like Anil Kapoor and Salman Khan. I am overwhelmed.

I've done a lot of movies, but none of them that have blown up the way that 'Divergent' did.

'Kahaani' gave me popularity and 'Gangs of Wasseypur' stardom.

I became a hero after V Shantaram cast me in 'Geet Gaya Pattharon Ne.' He paid me a monthly salary of 100 rupees!

Frankly speaking, during the making of 'Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety,' we never realised that the movie is going to be such a hit and that it will change our lives so much. There have been movies which have done really well at the box office, but rarely do we have movies where actors get so much love and adulation from their fans.

I was 12 when I decided that I wanted to see myself on the big screen.

Luckily, the films I did in Kannada were successful.

From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.

Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!