Robert Sean Leonard Quotes

I loved being on set when I was younger.

I guess I'm just a normal kid apart from the acting.

I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid.

I really want to work with Hugh Jackman and also Steven Spielberg.

The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.

I did 'Gangs of New York' with Martin Scorsese, and they used to call me 'Little Joe Pesci' on the set.

I dream of acting with Kevin Costner. I would love to do a movie with him. Not something funny, but a dramatic role.

I want to make a movie with Al Pacino someday.

It's such a thrill walking onto a film set.

I was in 'The Postman Always Rings Twice' with Jack Nicholson. That was fun. I think I made, like, $33 or something. I got to miss a whole day of school, and when you're a little kid, that's cool.

I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.

I have been working professionally in the entertainment industry since I was six.

I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move there. It's very much an industry town and that doesn't really interest me.

I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will make an improvisational movie someday.

I love actors. That's my bread and butter, and I got to work with some amazing ones on '12 Years'.

This industry has been really good to me. It's been a great life. I'm not through yet. I'm ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

Oh absolutely. I had the pleasure to get to know a lot of really talented young actors before they even really hit it big. And yet what we all had and shared in common was a love for movies.

I never thought I would have any particular career in movies at all.

You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.

I grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker.

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

Obviously, I've been on sets before but nothing as big as 'Twilight.' You forget sometimes that you're on set of one of the biggest movies ever- so when you just sit back and think about it its just so incredible. It's such a great learning experience.

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

I've been on sets my whole life.

I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close.