Satyadev Kancharana Quotes

I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.

I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.

I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.

When I went back to New York with somewhat of a name, they didn't want movie actresses.

I don't want to say, 'I want to be in Hollywood,' like so many actors do, but I know that Hollywood is still making good movies, and I'd like to be part of that someday.

When New Kids became really successful, I got a lot of offers to do parts in movies and TV shows, but I was really busy, so I pretty much turned everything down. But I always knew it was something that I would eventually put some energy into.

If my goal is to become a movie star, me working at a pizza shop won't help me. I have to make the stars align.

I always knew I'd be an actor. I always knew I'd at least be on a big screen somewhere.

I never thought about the actors on television or film, like what kind of life they had.

It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

I'm a fan of Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and all these people. If I could end up like Jonah Hill, winding up in a Brad Pitt movie, that would be awesome.

Everybody wants a movie career. I found that pretty elusive. I did make a movie with Martin Sheen about a nuclear scientist who has a religious experience. I don't even know what it was called. I don't think it was ever released.

Don't leave your job without getting an acting offer. Very few people in the industry are lucky to get a film without much struggle and be successful.

Now that I am playing a movie star, I am ready to be a real one.

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!

Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.

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

You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.

People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals.

I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.

Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

I thought it would be easy. I thought it'd take me one year to be Salma Hayek.