Rob Brydon Quotes

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

The only benefit of my dad being in the film industry was that I got a reality check right from the start. I wasn't delusional and didn't want to be an actor just for the glamour.

Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.

I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.

Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.

I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.

I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

My impression was, 'This Hollywood thing doesn't seem too hard.'

I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.

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

I didn't want to chase movies. It's too hard. You've got to work at it - opening nights, photo shoots, publicity people, managers. I never wanted to do that. I'm too lazy.

I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.

I always say: you're not going to find Hollywood. Hollywood will find you! But I'm ready for it: for Hollywood, for Bollywood, for everything!

Hollywood is my day job.

I never did love Hollywood, I just loved the work.

I'm vain enough to want do a movie again.

The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren't they?

I've always loved film, and since I knew I probably couldn't be a cowboy or a spy in real life, I thought I'd play one in a movie! I started doing theater in middle school and tested for 'Victorious' before being in an episode of 'iCarly.'

Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.

Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.

I dreamed of doing stuff like Will Smith and films on a big scale.

I moved to L.A., because that's where they point cameras at you. And that's what I'd like them to do.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

My own aunt was Merle Oberon, so movie stardom was not a faraway mystery to me as a child: it was part of the family business.