Nawazuddin Siddiqui Quotes

Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.

Stars are always bigger. They bring the audience to the theatres. More than that, they do a lot of work in a film, and they are always on top. I am in no way competing with them.

I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.

As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.

Honestly, working with Eddie Murphy was mind-blowing just in terms of the budget alone. To see the respect he commands, to witness his presence, you understand why he and people like Martin Lawrence are stars.

If you are the kind of guy who draws in 100 million people to see his film, you've got every right to be paid accordingly, but I qualify as a character actor. I don't put a bum on a seat.

Fame should be left to the film stars.

I think being a movie star is about whether an audience can watch you and care about you.

The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.

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

Look, I'm not a blockbuster star.

I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!

It's kind of hard to work with Tom Cruise and not be aware that you're working with one of the biggest movie stars in the world.

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.

A movie star is someone who has to open a film to gazillions of dollars. I'm just trying to pay my mortgage.

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.

For me, stardom means when people know your name when you appear on screen.

The sense of popularity in an actor is essential.

I think if you have any desire to be a leading man or to really carry some of these stories, there's this relationship that has to be cultivated with an audience. People have to be able to say your name.

OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them.

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!

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.

You know what may be the oddest thing about being a star? Stars have an effect on people. It's a responsibility, and it's frightening.

I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.