Jim Sturgess Quotes

Even though I grew up in L.A., no one in my family was in the movie industry. I've always felt whatever the opposite of disillusioned is. I guess illusioned with movies and with people in movies and things like that. It's all exciting to me.

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

Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice.

Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.

I watched movies, obviously, just like anybody else, but there was nothing to make me think, 'I'm going to go to L.A. and become a movie star,' or anything like that.

Every time I see Leonardo DiCaprio in a movie, I'm like, 'Dude, you're awesome. I want to be just like you when I grow up.'

One day I want to be like Will Smith.

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.

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

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.

I have lots of ambitions. I'd love to do theatre. I'd like to be in 'Tea With Mussolini 2;' I'd like to touch Meryl Streep - which would involve being with her in some exotic location. I have lots of fantastical dreams.

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.

You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.

I had no dream of being a movie star.

You'd see those movie stars on the screen, and say, 'I want to be that guy.'

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.

I think a lot of people secretly wish they were a rock star, and I'm no exception.

I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.

I don't necessarily need Hollywood.

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.