Movie Star Quotes - Page 15

• Keanu Reeves is, like, the worst actor I've ever seen. I can't believe he's a movie star.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Stars, Believe, Actors

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• Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets.

  Alistair Cooke

  Trying, Identity, Different

  Alistair Cooke (2014). “America Observed: From the 1940s to the 1980s”, p.179, Open Road Media

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• Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.

  Norman Mailer

  Stars, Simple, Giving

  Norman Mailer (2016). “Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968”, p.218, Random House

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• I respect newspapers but the reality is that magazine "photojournalism" is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Stars, Reality, Illustration

  "Mary Ellen Mark on photography". Interview with D.K. Row, www.oregonlive.com. August 12, 2010.

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• Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.

  Jay McInerney

  Stars, Successful, Certain

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• To its committed members (the Democratic Party) was still the party of heart, humanity, and justice, but to those removed a few paces it looked like Captain Hook’s crew–ambulance-chasing lawyers, rapacious public policy grants persons, civil rights gamesmen, ditzy-brained movie stars, fat-assed civil servant desk squatters, recovering alcoholics, recovering wife-beaters, recovering child-buggers, and so forth and so on, a grotesque line-up of ill-mannered self-pitying, caterwauling freeloaders banging their tin cups on the pavement demanding handouts.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Stars, Children, Party

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• There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the papers.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Stars, Hollywood, Paper

  "17 Questions With Jean-Claude Van Damme". Interview with Bertan Budak, www.askmen.com. February 13, 2009.

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• What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Stars, Real, Shells

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Stars, Thinking, Ham

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• I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films.

  Kevin Kline

  Stars, Stupid, Thinking

  "Profile: Kevin Kline" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2004.

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• I think the fantasy of being a movie star is more powerful than the reality. So, for me, even if it's not a great film or a great play I'm doing, to know that you went for it. You had an experience that made you grow artistically and personally. What's really satisfying is knowing that you did a good job.

  Marisa Tomei

  Jobs, Stars, Powerful

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.

  Rosie Perez

  Stars, Latin, Trying

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• People think if you're a movie star, you're the boss. But first of all, I'm not a movie star, I'm in a very different place. I'm not looking to do what I want - I am looking for what we can find. It's a creative process.

  Rutger Hauer

  Stars, Thinking, People

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• Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.

  Susie Orbach

  Stars, Invitations, Models

  "Body confidence and the new political line on beauty" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2012.

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• All Americans born between 1890 and 1945 wanted to be movie stars.

  Gore Vidal

  Movie, Stars, Born

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• The most exciting thing for all of us is movies and movie stars.

  Babyface

  Stars, Exciting, Exciting Things

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• We've had some really good guest stars. But I have to go with Alec Baldwin as my favorite. He is so neat and such a movie star. He's handsome and quirky. I was in heaven the week he was on the set.

  Nikki Cox

  Beauty, Stars, Heaven

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• Acting is about acting, not about being a movie star.

  Tyler Christopher

  Stars, Acting

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• Not disown my past or upbringing, but I'd admired American actors, really American movie star - particularly the rebel heroes of the '50s.

  Maxwell Caulfield

  Stars, Hero, Past

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.

  Parker Posey

  Stars, Attitude, Grandmother

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• Everybody - even huge movie stars - have downs. That's just how it is. The work ebbs and flows. My manager and I were saying, 'Let's remember that in 2013 we were soooo busy.' So whenever it is that we're not, maybe it'll come back again. Maybe it won't. But you've gotta love the ride.

  Betsy Brandt

  Love, Stars, Ebb And Flow

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never wanted to be a movie star.

  Radha Mitchell

  Movie, Stars, Actors

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• My chosen occupation isn’t necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.

  Sarah Gadon

  Stars, Actors, Occupation

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• I don`t want people walking out of a movie thinking I was trying to act or be some movie star. I want them to think, `That might make me like Jessica a little bit more.`

  Jessica Simpson

  Stars, Thinking, People

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• At the Golden Globes, they put all the bigger stars in the front; the movie stars in the front, TV actors in the back. But even as a movie star, you can be outseated by a bigger star in any given year. It's kind of hilarious. You have to take it in stride.

  Julianne Moore

  Stars, Years, Tvs

  "Emmys 2012: Julianne Moore on Becoming Sarah Palin and Moving to TV Full Time". Interview with Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 21, 2012.

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