Movie Star Quotes - Page 16

• To become a big movie star like Joan Crawford you need to wear blinders and pay single-minded attention to your career. Nobody paid attention to me, including me. I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.

  Evelyn Keyes

  Girl, Stars, Fairy Stories

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• The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.

  Sam Mendes

  Character, Goes On, Lifestyle

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• Well I ain't no movie star but I can get behind anything!

  Gordon Downie

  Stars, Wells, Behinds

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• 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.

  Michael Caine

  Stars, Playing Someone, Lovers

  "Why Michael Caine's daughter is banned from seeing his latest film" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2009.

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• I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.

  Al Pacino

  Stars, Perception, Actors

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

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• In my life, I've been a movie star, a rock star, and a sports star, all wrapped up into one-and worked harder at it than anybody else.

  Ric Flair

  Life, Sports, Stars

  Ric Flair (2010). “Ric Flair: To Be the Man”, p.471, Simon and Schuster

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• My biggest hero when I was a kid was Will Smith. I used to watch 'Fresh Prince,' and I was a huge fan of his albums. I bought all of his albums when I was a kid. Now, he is the biggest movie star in the world.

  Jesse McCartney

  Stars, Hero, Kids

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• You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.

  Gary Sinise

  Priorities, Risk, Acting

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• My mum worked as a secretary for Christian Dior. She looked like a movie star.

  Patsy Kensit

  Christian, Stars, Dior

  "Patsy Kensit: My family values" by Helen Carroll, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2011.

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• For me, I'm always looking for opportunities to work with people who are better than me, who are more experienced than me, people from whom I can learn. And who could I learn more from than someone with an unprecedented movie star career that has spanned over thirty years whose name is Tom Cruise?

  David Oyelowo

  Stars, Opportunity, Years

  "Q&A: David Oyelowo goes toe-to-toe with Tom Cruise". Interview with Elizabeth Durand, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2012.

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• Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

  Diane Keaton

  Stars, Writing, Men

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• You'd be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work.

  Taylor Hackford

  Stars, Care, Stills

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

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• If someone is going to permit me to make a publication that is politically and culturally progressive and not tell me to put their favorite movie stars on the cover, if I get to do what I want in an honest way - as I did in the beginning at 'Colors' - then I'm going to do it.

  Tibor Kalman

  Stars, Color, Want

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• Any actress will tell you - it's really hard. If you're not an A-list Hollywood movie star, if you're in the middle, there are people who assume you wouldn't do certain things without even asking you, when actually you probably would. And there are people who always think you are busy doing something else.

  Martine McCutcheon

  Stars, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Of all the jaw-droppingly beautiful women who've become genuine movie stars, none has had a longer film career (62 years), has been filmed in Technicolor more often (34 times), has had a more versatile group of leading men (from John Wayne to John Candy) or has spent more time held captive on a pirate ship than our TCM Star of the Month for July, the magnificent red-headed Maureen O'Hara.

  Robert Osborne

  Beautiful, Stars, Men

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• Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Stars, Hair, Voice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.

  Olivier Martinez

  Stars, Needs, Actors

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• I'm just a photographer, not a movie star.

  Ryan McGinley

  Stars, Photographer

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• The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president

  Michael Reagan

  Stars, Children, Odds

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• It was a fine fall morning in Paris, crisp and clear, and Benji was quite full of himself, cavorting near the fountain, playing with the children who had inexplicably materialized out of nowhere at the first whiff of a movie star. Their faces radiated and they took turns gently stroking his head. Those Benji chose to favor with a big sloppy lick exploded with laughter, and one young girl ran to her mother, screeching in French that she would never wash her face again.

  Joe Camp

  Funny, Girl, Mother

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• People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.

  Sam Neill

  Stars, People, Fool

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• Who cares if a movie star has an opinion unless the person is very well informed?

  Brian Lamb

  Stars, Who Cares, Opinion

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• I admire many actors, though I don't think there's anyone whose career I would want to mirror sort of by the beats. What I'm really looking to do is constantly defy expectations. I'm very curious to see if you can actually have a character actor and a movie star's career combined.

  David Oyelowo

  Stars, Character, Thinking

  "Q&A: David Oyelowo Goes Toe-to-toe with Tom Cruise" by Elizabeth Durand, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2012.

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• American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.

  Vincente Minnelli

  Song, Stars, Important

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

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• It's easy to be a movie star. The shoes are already there. They just put you in the shoes.

  Jason Patric

  Stars, Shoes, Easy

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