Dante Basco Quotes

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

Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!

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 used to want to be a movie star so I wouldn't have to live in trailers anymore. And now that I make movies, I spend a lot of my life living in trailers.

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

I always knew I was going to be successful in some way with films. I don't know why. I had no particular talent, but I always knew I was going to be sitting in a dining room with Lucille Ball and at a cocktail party with Bette Davis.

I had no dream of being a movie star.

I had a growing career as a model and an actress in London - I had starred opposite Michael Caine and Sidney Poitier in 'The Wilby Conspiracy' - but everyone told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place, they said, and I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was that no one would quite know what to do with me.

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.

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

I'm just glad I got to work with the likes of Spielberg.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved... or star in a movie.

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 was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.

When you're a kid, I think you want to be a film star. And I'm not as enamoured with that any more. The reality of that life is a lot of travel, and a lot of being away, which is impractical because I have four children, so I don't want to be away that much, not the other side of the world away.

I'd never really considered film. If I'd thought about film more growing up, I probably would have changed my name. I had no concept of my name in lights.

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!

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

I always wanted to be in movies.

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.

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

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.