Quotes About Career

I feel I belong in the movie business and I belong in the security business. It's a natural for me.

I got into the movie business because of 'Days of Heaven.'

Was it my lifelong ambition to be in the movie business? No.

Often, in the movie business, they need somebody who will garner box office because they need to pay for the movie. So the people who are in movies that make a lot of money are the people who most often get cast in studio pictures. In my career, I've never been a box office name.

If you were in Clint Eastwood movies, you were in the Clint Eastwood movie business. You weren't in the movie business. You weren't part of Hollywood. This became clear early on; people stopped calling. They automatically assumed I was working exclusively with Clint.

I always loved movies as a child, and I love story. I got my degree in English. Film and story seemed, to me, the vector of the movie business. I really didn't know what 'the film business' meant, but I decided I wanted to be in it.

I've been the movie business for over 50 years, and I've done everything imaginable that could be done or ever was done by anybody.

My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.' I turned 19 on the next movie I worked on, which was a black 'Blazing Saddles.' I worked in the art department. It was called 'Darktown Strutters.'

I never really felt like a movie star until 'Police Woman.'

I never really thought it would be possible to keep making films. I thought I'd get to a point where it would just stop happening, and I still sort of feel that way. I don't know if any actor feels like they are going to have a career forever, unless they're a movie star.

It is very difficult for any couple who are married if both people are ambitious. I don't know if it's just too hard to be married to a woman that wants to be a movie star.

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.

I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star.

I left 'Law and Order' because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl.

Everybody perceives me because of my career that I'm a movie star, or I'm this model, but I'm still the same person I was when I was a little girl.

I never really thought I wanted to become a movie star.

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

I don't have any massive ambitions to be a movie star.

A movie star is someone who has to open a film to gazillions of dollars. I'm just trying to pay my mortgage.

I definitely didn't have any dreams of grandeur or dreams of becoming an action movie star.

I've never had a plan for any of this: there was never a plan for, 'Right, I must get on the TV,' 'Right, I must have my own show,' 'Right, I must be a movie star.' I don't think like that. I haven't ever had that sort of interest.

Hell, I might want to be like some other people and become a movie star or join the UFC. You never know.

I know I'm not a hotly in-demand movie star, but I'm good at my job. And I want to keep working for the next 40 years.

I have been in this industry for over a decade, and I still don't consider myself a movie star.