Pete Ploszek Quotes

If you are the kind of guy who draws in 100 million people to see his film, you've got every right to be paid accordingly, but I qualify as a character actor. I don't put a bum on a seat.

I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.

Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

I've done quite a few big American films.

In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.

We always thought that we'd go on from the show to have a career in movies.

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

'G.I. Joe' is a $200 million movie. The makeup trailer was as big as my house! It was a whole other different production. It blows me away. I'm just going, 'Wow, I'm in that.'

There isn't a studio in the world that wouldn't burn half its soundstages to get a Tom Cruise movie.

While growing up, I always wanted to see myself on the big screen - more so because there were no laptops then, and viewing on mobile was a far-fetched dream.

God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.

People call me a movie star. If you're in the business, a movie star is someone who can make a film bankable. My name and $6 million will make a $6 million movie. I'm a working actor. Because I started late, I had a very short run as a leading man, and my films didn't make money in America.

No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me.

Well, I haven't really been able to shoot in California for a while. Little movies yeah, but the big movies we can't shoot there. It's just a shame that Arnold Schwarzenegger can't deliver on this level.

You've got these big studio films and these tiny independent films now. It's very much either/or. With the independent films, it's always a beautiful risk - it might never be seen. With the studio films, you're conforming to the formula of what's always been in place.

I'd say specifically after 'Get Smart,' people now know me either as The Guy from 'Get Smart' or 'She's Out of My League.' When that came out on DVD, everyone was recognizing me from that.

I'm not averse to being in big commercial films.

I was the leading star in 1945. I slowed down my pace of acting assignments after I came into direction.

I'm blessed to have cool roles in these big movies.

My father did 90-plus films. He was Spartacus!

Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.

'New' movies are almost always hipper, faster, they mix genres aggressively, they smother their genre origins in new form, there are fewer of them, and they tend to cost a lot more money because you usually make more money on the megahit than you do on the steady progression of break-eveners. Except for the horror movie.

I have no illusions of being the big box office draw. But I would like to have some choices.

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actor's always an actor until he does a movie-star part.