Jane Fonda Quotes

I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.

When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star.

Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.

You really are as hot as your last movie. And it goes away really quickly.

When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.

The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star.

A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.

When I was young and beautiful, I never appeared on the cover of a magazine.

I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star.

Ideally, I'd like to go right back to getting $7 million a picture and being the headliner. That's probably not going to happen.

I saw I wasn't an ingenue like Debbie Reynolds.

One can hope to be like Julie Christie, and with a bit of luck might be able to, but you couldn't hope to be like Rita Hayworth.

I didn't want to be a hero and get into the mould but the film industry doesn't work like that. It has a habit of branding you in a specific image to market you easily.

I don't really care to be a movie star.

I went to the premier of 'Stardust,' which starred Michelle Pfeiffer. I nearly died when I saw her on the red carpet - she's so beautiful.

I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I wanted to be an actor.

No, I never thought of it in those terms. I used to go into agents' offices and they'd have pictures of these handsome movie men and I knew I'd never be up there. I'm a journeyman actor. I didn't think about stardom.

I can never describe myself as a movie star. I don't know when that happens but it's certainly not me.

Jason Lee is the most famous actor from Hawaii I can think of.

I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.

Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same.

I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe.

I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didn't have to be a gigolo. In real life.

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

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