Quotes About Performance

I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.

Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.

I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress.

I always wanted to be in show business or whatever you want to call this crazy world, to be an actor or a movie star or whatever.

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?

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

I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.

I'm loving saying 'I'm not a big movie star, but I play one on television.'

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

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.

I saw Cate Blanchett in 'Big and Small,' and it was mind-blowing. The fact that she can do theatre and is also a huge movie star is really exciting.

To get a movie star, you have to give them two hours of screen time.

I just don't think of myself as a movie star - I'm an actress.

I am an actress. I am not a movie star.

If you actually saw your favorite movie star who is also a great classical actor doing 'Romeo and Juliet,' 'Macbeth' or 'Taming of the Shrew,' it would be a great thing and a great thing for kids to get interested in language.

I think being a rock star is a little bit different than being an athlete or even a movie star.

I don't consider myself - and I hope I'm never going to be - a 'movie star.' I'd like to be called an actor.

I didn't really think about being a movie star. I was more about theater.

I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.

There is a difference between movie actors and TV acting, especially with movie stars, which is they know their face is 20 feet high on the screen. They know they don't have to do much.

You can get good performances in quite sizable roles from people who have never been in front of a camera, people who maybe have never been in front of a movie theater.

When I go to the movie theater, I want to get emotion from the actors in the movie.

Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.