Maureen O'Hara Quotes

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

I was 13 - 14 when I first tasted stardom. In the summer holidays, my dad made me act in these films that went on to become superhits. I became a child star.

Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me.

I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.

My movie career - if such a thing even exists - is laughable.

I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick.

I always say: you're not going to find Hollywood. Hollywood will find you! But I'm ready for it: for Hollywood, for Bollywood, for everything!

It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.

I can remember before 'Rain Man,' I just couldn't get in on anything, any features. After that and it winning the Oscar - the next year, I co-starred in six movies.

Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.

Everybody wants to be a movie star. I bet if you ask that guy would he like to be a movie star, he'd say, 'Sure.'

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

I have acted in more than 100 films so far. And I have worked with almost all top stars and leading directors.

I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.

I never dreamed of being in Hollywood.

The glamourous aspect of my career began with 'Shaher ki ladki,' which is how I sort of restarted my career.

'West' is one of those scripts that, when it came out, everyone wanted a piece of it and everyone wanted to be involved in it.

I built my entire career off of teen comedies. I was in 'Bring It On'.

When one deals with stars, he is dealing with intelligent people. If they weren't intelligent, they wouldn't have arrived at the star pinnacle.

I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.

Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.

I used to want to be a movie star so I wouldn't have to live in trailers anymore. And now that I make movies, I spend a lot of my life living in trailers.

I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.

Look at Jane Lynch, another Chicagoan. She has a career I'd kill for. She does amazing work; she's famous enough to have some power, but not so famous she has to deal with people buzzing around her life.