Chris Klein Quotes

To pursue a career in Hollywood you have to have a personality bypass. Look at the top 20 stars in the world - there's probably only two actors among them. Hollywood's not about you as an actor. It's about your currency, what you 'bring to the table'. And I've never been one to jump through hoops for anyone.

If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.

My oomph factor helped me enter B-town. I have a naturally gifted body.

Glamour is a very small aspect of being an actress.

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.

In L.A. everyone is in the entertainment industry, so you're forced to think about work.

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.

My parents don't have any showbusiness links. They are so far away from it.

I work with a lot of movie stars.

My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.

To this day, I don't know what shapes a Hollywood career.

To be honest, unless you rocket straight to stardom as a gorgeous young vampire, you can spend a lot of time working behind a bar.

I'd always wanted to be an actress or a model or a singer.

I moved to L.A., and I lived in the Oakland Apartments, which is this notorious hub for actor children and their stage moms. For the first few years that I lived there, Hilary Duff and Frankie Muniz frequented the apartments. I was much younger than them at the time.

Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.

I am really proud that I am one of the artists that has the opportunity to be on magazine covers and to be in the movies.

There's no job in show business that's harder than any other job outside show business.

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.

I hate show business.

I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!

I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.

I'm not particularly good at 'celebrity'; I don't think it was something I was born to do. I think I can get by as an actor, but I've never been one for the red carpet and don't put a lot of stock in celebrities that are famous for being famous.

There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.

In Hollywood, for me, it's all about the movie stars and the singers. Baseball players don't draw too much attention; we're low key. I'm good with faces and sometimes bad with names, but I'll walk up to somebody if I know who they are... show them some love.