Leslie Odom Jr. Quotes

I can't imagine I'll be the new George Clooney. That's not really in the cards.

People still remember Sean Penn as Spicoli from 'Fast Times At Ridgemont High,' and if I can have, like, one-10th of his career, then I'm fine.

I'm not Tom Cruise. Very few British actors are. If you look at the body of work I've done it's pretty obvious I'm not going to make a 'Mission: Impossible.'

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

I'll never be the biggest kind of star; I'll be like Bob Duvall, respected as an actor but a lot of people can't identify the face. I don't have the personality of a big star, or the looks of a Mel Gibson or a Paul Newman, or the style of a George C. Scott.

It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.

I never thought I'd be making a living off of acting - it's still kind of a shock for my family and friends to see my face on TV every Wednesday night.

To be honest I never thought the acting thing would get off the ground.

Just because I'm doing 'Star Wars' doesn't mean that'll be the thing that makes people stop me in the street.

I'd rather be Vincent Price than a red-neck character actor. You can't predict what will happen.

I don't just wanna be James Franco's little brother.

I'm glad to have shown myself able to do other things rather than people thinking, 'Oh, he'll just do the same as his dad.' Dad was a brilliant actor, but it just so happened he was five foot five and a half, fat and bald.

When I left my home to become an actress, my father didn't give me a single penny. I struggled a lot, and they had no idea what I went through. My grandfather even asked me to drop my surname when he learnt I was joining films.

I hope to have a career like Jodie Foster, going from child to adult actress.

When I did 'Percy Jackson,' people told me, 'Oh, you're going to be so famous... you're not going to be able to walk down the street... it's going to be huge,' and it wasn't - although it was big for my career.

I'm no Zac Efron.

It's a lot of people's goal to be the lead in a movie, and that was never my goal. I just wanted to be the third banana in an ensemble comedy.

Yes, you can do it. You can dream about being on the cover of magazines; you can dream about being in a film.

I was 29 when we sort of broke through with Ghost.

I never had high expectations going into Hollywood. I went there just to work.

It's actually just as cool to be on television as to be in a movie, and nobody's ashamed of this back and forth.

I'm very grateful that I'm the kind of actor where I'm not some character actor. I can't disappear into a world.

In my 20s, when I was acting, I probably had a little bit of a personality crisis in the sense that everybody related to me as Bruce Lee's daughter.

I think, in the past, you could buy a flat and live comfortably on theatre and touring theatre, but you can't do that anymore, which means that you have to have a certain amount of celebrity and profile to, therefore, get TV and film work.

My dear friend Randeep Hooda says I am more a unionist than an actor. I reminded him I was a star and not just an actor.