Luke Goss Quotes

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.

Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.

I'm a massive movie nerd. That being said, I could retire tomorrow because I wrote this movie 'Goon' and it came out, and it connected and it's a wonderful flick that I think is beautiful and then it had this wonderful life and it means a lot to a lot of people.

Producers and studios know what sells. It's nice to be one of the guys that can help sell a movie by taking his shirt off.

If 'American Beauty' came out today, it wouldn't make nearly as much money.

I would be lying if I said I did not feel bad when 'Shamitabh' failed, but I was proud to be associated with a film like this. If it were easy to know the pulse of the audience, then all movies would be blockbusters.

Whenever we actors become part of a Bollywood film, there is a certain pressure of earning a box office success.

I am happy that most of my films did good business and either set or broke records at the box office.

I don't believe in the 100 crore club.

All the top stars like Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh, etc. do very few films a year and I don't think it's affected their visibility or fan following in any way.

I don't think a film has ever worked at the box office because of a star.

When I did 'The Sound of Music' and 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Americanization of Emily,' all three were in the can and had not yet been released. So I was driving around having a fine time learning about how to make movies and enjoying myself enormously, and then they were released, and it was quite an assault, in a way.

Women drive box office.

There was a time when all that mattered was that you were in a good movie.

If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.

I think people want to watch me in films, and that's why filmmakers want to work with me and tell stories.

We made 'Housefull 4' because 1, 2 and 3 were loved by the audience.

Commercial film is a film that makes a lot of money, and I have very high hopes from 'Sonchiriya.'

Ultimately, so many things come down to money, but particularly when it comes to superheroes - people really thought that only men loved action movies and only men would go see a superhero movie.

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

With 'Judwaa 2,' I captured the kind of market that I could have never penetrated into on another occasion.

If I want to be a leading man in a film, box office numbers count because producers have invested money. I see no wrong in that process.

Being able to work on a film like 'Crazy Rich Asians' as your first role is phenomenal.

When something is not liked by people, you cannot make it run, however big actor or producer you may be. The audience has to make it a hit. The power is in the hands of the public.

I wish that 'Yama Pasham' will be a bigger hit than 'Krishnagaadi Veera Prema Gaadha.'