G. W. Bailey Quotes

I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.

I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

To get a movie star, you have to give them two hours of screen time.

You have a shelf-life on TV.

The stigma of movie actors doing television is gone now.

Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.

I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known.

It's tough to have a movie-star persona when you're on a show as successful as 'Friends.'

You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television?

I came to 20th Century Fox to do movies, and then they started a network, and they asked me to do a show as part of their starting what became the Fox network.

I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.

As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am.

TV showrunners have become known entities to people who watch television in the way that movie directors have been known to filmgoers for a long time. When I started out as a writer and producer in television, I never had the slightest expectation that fame would be part of the job.

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

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

I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.

Most of the time, you do films and they can be big films, but you are rarely aware of the fan base that comes with it.

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.

15 years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff.

I left 'Law and Order' because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl.

Samuel L. Jackson is one of the best actors there is.

I was born on TV, meaning that's where I caught my break. So that's where I always have to be smart and revisit that medium as much as I can.

Some people think of me as an actor and some as a movie star, so I sort of guess that makes me both. I love making movies, and I love playing on the stage.

I started making movies in 1977, and I didn't even think about the idea that I would ever be on a television show. Once I finished the 'Guiding Light,' I was like, 'I'm done with television!'

Katherine Heigl was a movie star. I thought she was going to be one, and it was fun to watch this young actress getting better every day.