Top 100 Movie Star Quotes
#1. My mum worked as a secretary for Christian Dior. She looked like a movie star.
Patsy Kensit
#2. Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.
Katharine Hepburn
#3. I was shocked into the realization that I myself had played an unwitting role as a movie star and sex symbol in perpetrating the stereotypes that affected women all over the world.
Jane Fonda
#4. It's not about becoming a movie star. It's about the down-in-the-dirt art of inhabiting the person you aspire to be while carrying on your shoulders the uncertain and hungry man you know you are.
Cheryl Strayed
#5. I can remember when
delusions of grandeur
entailed wanting to
be a rock star, movie star,
a millionaire; to make it
as a writer
now it seems that it's
to want to earn a
decent living
Phil Volatile
#6. I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
Harrison Ford
#7. Oh, absolutely. James Caan was the first movie star I'd ever met, much less worked with. He was an important person to me and my brothers and Wes. Bottle Rocket was the first movie for all of us. As you know, back then, [Caan] was having some career changes, I think.
Luke Wilson
#8. Ever since I became a movie star,I've been really weird.
Marilyn Monroe
#9. They tell us in magazines and in ads, 'Oh, you should look like this, you should wear this, you should look like this movie star, or you're nothing.' And so we're all totally unsatisfied.
Marcia Gay Harden
#10. I knew Vincent Price from films - he was a big movie star - but the first time I met him was when we filmed 'The Oblong Box.'
Christopher Lee
#11. The organization that it takes to make a movie like 'Star Trek' is amazing, intimidating and fascinating.
Heather Langenkamp
#12. This was no peck on the lips. This was a real first kiss, a movie-star-knock-her-socks-off-fireworks-light-up-the-sky kind of kiss.
A girl could live to be a hundred and never forget that kiss.
Carol Fragale Brill
#13. I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
Olivier Martinez
#14. I've been on the board of UCLA Film and TV School, and I went to UCLA. I realized that the same movie theater that was there when I went to school, 30 years later is the same movie theater in the same condition. There was an opportunity to refurbish an existing room, and I jumped at the opportunity.
Darren Star
#15. I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.
Patti Smith
#16. Well, when Kathy Kennedy, who is the president of Lucasfilm, came to me to ask if I'd be interested in working on this "Star Wars" movie, we talked about a young woman at the center of the story from the outset. And it was something that was always an important part of this movie.
J.J. Abrams
#17. An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.
Nicholas Meyer
#18. Being a movie star was never as much fun as dreaming of being one.
Marilyn Monroe
#19. If you're a big Hollywood star, you make one movie a year at the most. I can make five in Europe.
Franco Nero
#20. I didn't get into entertainment until I was like 31. I didn't star in a movie until I was 46.
Paul Hogan
#21. It's absolutely impossible to have a serious critical discussion about enthusiasms for movie stars. Because a movie star is an animal separate from acting. Sometimes, he or she is a great actor. Sometimes a third-rate one. But the star is something that you fall in love with ...
Peter Biskind
#22. Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look.
Bruce Boxleitner
#23. I'm not some movie star relying on a studio. I have my own fans and I earned them.
Tucker Max
#24. If you're a movie star, you get the girl, you lose the girl, and then you get her back. But if you're a character like me, you lose the girl, then you get another one, then you get another one, then you lose them all, then you lose your life.
Michael Caine
#25. I don't walk around like I'm a movie star because I don't think of myself as a movie star. People usually don't even notice me.
Joaquin Phoenix
#26. The good news is your surgery was a success and now you look like a movie star! The bad news is that movie star is Drew Carey!
Ryan Stiles
#27. The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'
Michael Caine
#28. The truth is I studied fine arts in Switzerland. I was just interested. I had no dream of being a movie star.
Sarah Carter
#29. I used to think that you could get to a level of success where the laws of the universe didn't apply. But they do. It's still life on life's terms, not on movie-star terms. I still have to work at relationships. I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.
Chris Farley
#30. 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
#31. I just think the David O. Selznick story is one of the great, epic stories of Hollywood history that nobody knows. Maybe one of the reasons why nobody knows it is because he wasn't a movie star.
Karina Longworth
#33. If one of your best friends is making a Star Wars movie, you're not gonna not abuse that privilege. I defy anybody to say otherwise!
Simon Pegg
#34. You just have to realize that Jet Li is a movie star. He's great at what he does, but if he stepped into our world he wouldn't last long.
Chuck Liddell
#35. It has never ever been a bad thing in Hollywood to be sleeping with a director who's just won an Oscar or the hot new movie star whose face is on the cover of 'Time' magazine.
Kelly Rutherford
#36. I don't want to be Angelina Jolie. Not that Angelina Jolie is not the most talented, beautiful, successful, amazing, admirable person who does good things for the world, but I don't want to be a movie star like that.
Kristen Stewart
#37. In Europe, a great dancer might be on the same level as a movie star. In America, not so.
Patricia McBride
#38. Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it.
Olivier Martinez
#39. I want to be the best actor that I can be; I want to be working in this business absolutely, and if that means being a movie star, then OK, that's fine. But to me, movie star, celebrity, all that stuff means something very different than being an actor.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#40. But the truth is, I've never wanted to be a movie star - and I've been pretty clear about that.
Ethan Hawke
#41. Everybody says, 'You impress me as a guy who never wanted to be a movie star.' I say, 'Everybody in the world wants to be a movie star.'
Rip Torn
#42. I'm competitive with myself, not at the expense of everything around me. I never wanted to be a movie star. I just wanted to act.
Clive Owen
#43. I always loved to sing and was very, very loud. I wanted to be a movie star, like Judy Garland.
Jenny Slate
#44. I don't think much of most of the films I made, but being a movie star was something I liked very much.
Joan Bennett
#45. The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star.
Piper Laurie
#46. Inside every TV star is a movie star screaming to get out, and Donna Frenzel, with whom I'm guessing you're not instantly familiar, made George Clooney a movie star once and for all in the first ten minutes of his fifth feature, 1998's 'Out of Sight.'
Steve Erickson
#47. Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.
Bette Davis
#48. People in love - with nurturing, attentive non-movie-star parents - they would never invent gravity. Nothing except deep misery leads to real success.
Chuck Palahniuk
#49. I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know.
Esther Williams
#50. It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.
Doris Day
#51. Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.
Eli Roth
#52. I never thought of myself as a movie star. I'm just a working girl. A working girl who worked her way to the top - and never fell off.
Susan Hayward
#53. I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.
Mos Def
#54. I think doing something of your life is something that you've got deep inside, whether it's to, whether you want to be an astronaut or a, whether you want to do science, or whether you want to be a movie star, or whatever.
Philippe Perrin
#55. And now it looks like I'm probably going to shoot a movie that I wrote. I got the money to do it, and I would star and all, because of being on Howard.
Artie Lange
#56. 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.
Lynda Obst
#57. But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.
Victoria Jackson
#58. I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
Will Rogers
#59. There are people who fly to the height of stardom in a single day, and then there are people like me. I used to have this ridiculous idea that I absolutely had to be a big, big movie star. Now all I'm after is happiness.
Teri Polo
#60. 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
#61. Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.
Jeff Goodell
#62. As much as I appreciate acting and enjoy it, and like it, it wasn't something where I grew up wanting to be a movie star.
Max Thieriot
#63. Even in the wicked, disgusting sweats he put on every day after work, he looked like a movie star. It isn't the kind of stuff a kid normally says about his dad, but it was true; there was just something about him, a weird kind of confidence that made everyone turn around and look.
A.M. Homes
#64. A lot of what is famous about film making are the movie stars and what is considered a movie star is a lot of great acting, but also a lot of physical beauty.
Kelli O'Hara
#65. You bagged a movie star. You should be throwing a fucking party and bragging on Twitter. What you shouldn't be doing is moping, not when you threw him out of your house like a baller.
Alessandra Torre
#66. Jack Kennedy could have been a movie star himself. He had the charisma, the charm, that come-hither quality that can never be duplicated. Is it any wonder he got elected president?
Marilyn Monroe
#67. There's no slow build anymore where you get a little part, then you get a little better part, then a better part, until one day your agent calls you us and says, 'guess what, you're a movie star,' and you say, 'Thank you!'
Ellen Barkin
#68. I don't think I could do what Woody Allen or Clint Eastwood or Ben Stiller do, where they direct a movie and they star in it. I would just be like, 'Oh, I don't even want to look at my face.'
Bill Hader
#69. When I was young, all I wanted to be was a movie star. At a certain point, I started to grow up and really care about what I did.
Sharon Stone
#70. As a jobbing actor, I never get a script and go 'I can't be bothered with this.' Life doesn't work like that. For a movie star, maybe, but for a jobbing actor, that doesn't happen.
Eve Myles
#71. For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?
Michael Caine
#72. We are now, all of us, cinematographers for the movie of our own lives. Not the star. Not the director. Not even the writer.
Andrew Kaufman
#73. Growing up in the 80's, I think a lot of us saw things that were "new," an experience we don't get too much of these days. We saw things that were never done before. When Star Wars first came out, no movie before that had ever looked that way.
Gabriel Campisi
#74. A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.
Allison Pearson
#75. Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information.
Peter Bart
#76. Own it. Just take it and say, 'Yes I will be great, I am going to be great.' Great doesn't mean being a movie star, great doesn't mean having millions of dollars. Great means being able to be confident, strong, and a solid human being that has dignity and integrity. That is great.
Rosie Perez
#77. I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.
Eddie Marsan
#78. Josh had a movie star jewfro and a smug little grin
Saira Viola
#79. I knew who Leonard Nimoy was, and that he embodied what Star Trek meant to all the fans. But it wasn't until I started doing my research for this movie, and started going to fan sites, that I began to fall in love with these characters.
Zoe Saldana
#80. I never go on a movie set as the star. I always go as the guy who just does his job, like the electrician does his job and the hairdresser does her job. Let's all work together and make this happen, rather than have the star treatment. I don't do that.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#82. You're a movie star. A celebrity with millions of fans."
"And you're a wildlife ranger who traps giant, dangerous black bears for a living and acts like it's no big deal. Tell me that doesn't sound like a heaping helping of crazy, with bizarre gravy, and a slice of mashed loco for Cocoa Puffs.
Penny Reid
#83. If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you're doing something else or not. You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But if you want to be a movie star, you've got a tough road ahead of you.
Alan Arkin
#85. No one is going to tell a movie star to smoke or not smoke because they can do whatever they want .
Joe Eszterhas
#86. The issue often with films is how it works with money and trying to get a visible movie star presence in the film.
James Marsh
#87. When I was just a girl in Sydney, no one thought, 'Oh, she's going to be a movie star.' No one. I had to get by with actual skill and talent.
Rebel Wilson
#88. Basically I was no different than a rock star or a movie star. I was a coke star.
George Jung
#89. It doesn't occur to me that I don't drive a cool car until I hang out with Jon Hamm, who picks me up in what looks like a Transformer, and I think, 'Oh, that's what movie stars are driving. I guess I'm not a movie star.'
Bill Hader
#90. I do get starstruck working with Bruce because even though he is such a nice guy he's a real movie star. I grew up watching his movies it is just really hard to get used to just being around Bruce Willis. I mean, he's Bruce Willis!
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
#91. It didn't scare him the way he had thought it would. There was still the unshakable, blind assurances that this organism Ray Garraty could not die. The others could die, they were extras in the movie of his life, but not Ray Garraty, star of that long-running hit film, The Ray Garraty Story.
Stephen King
#92. In primary school when I was 6-7 years old, I always go to theater with my uncle, and I don't know why I like the atmosphere, dark only. The screen has some lighting, that kind of things, you can see the movie star and so that's why I like movies.
Andrew Lau
#93. These days, everyone is a writer, producer and movie star. You post something on the web, get enough hits, and suddenly you have TV show.
Dustin Diamond
#94. You can either be a movie star or an actor. I'm an actor.
James Avery
#96. She is the elephant's eyebrows," Evie whispered appreciatively. "Those jewels! How her neck must ache."
"That's why Bayer makes aspirin," Mabel whispered back, and Evie smiled, knowing that even a socialist wasn't immune to the dazzle of a movie star.
Libba Bray
#97. Her smile reminded Theresa of a movie star smile - toothy and wide, and if you stared too hard at it, not quite real.
Blake Crouch
#98. I'm basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies - unless I'm doing a guest star or something - and occasionally I try to get back into television.
Robert Englund
#99. When you start to become a movie star it's easy to believe that you are Superman. That can fool you. That's why I prefer not to pay much attention to fame.
Benicio Del Toro
#100. I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.
Jason Lee
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