Best Movie Star Quotes

Filmmakers tell actors to adjust their body language, and the famous presence of the actor is his or her body language. That is what makes them special and a movie star. An actor’s capital is his body.

Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.

I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.

I remember when I first started having these interpretations of these images, these clichés of what movie stars are and this and that, and they’re egomaniacal pricks and tyrants, but in general, for the most part, they’re nice people to tell you the truth.

I’m a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys – movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

You can either be a vain movie star, or you can try to shed some light on different aspects of the human condition.

It is not coincidence that at Barcelona we have low-key lifestyles and we have been successful. We know we are football players and not movie stars.

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

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actors always an actor until he does a movie-star part.

The film makers are the true movie stars.

I spent nine days in the Downtown Los Angeles City Jail. The judge gave me a suspended sentence and I went to work that night – wailed just like nothing happened. What strucked me funny though – I laughed real loud when several movie stars came up to the bandstand while we played a dance set and told me, when they heard about me getting caught with marijuana, they thought marijuana was a chick. Woo boy – that really fractured me!

Great movie stars like Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor who were capable of saying so much without saying anything at all merely by carrying themselves in a classic fashion that’s timeless yet relatable.

Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it.

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.

There are no Asian movie stars

[Leonardo DiCaprio] invited me into his dressing room, and then we went into his hotel room where we stayed. We shared caramel popcorn. I think that was the coolest thing, sharing popcorn with this movie star. And then we wrestled! I always share that story with people.

I can never describe myself as a movie star. I don’t know when that happens but it’s certainly not me.

I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural, effortless style.

I’m kind of glad that I was able to properly grow up before becoming a massive movie star.

I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It’s too ambitious for me.

I’ve always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.

J. Lo, whether she is good or bad, is like a fiery movie star, a throwback to Elizabeth Taylor in her heyday.

I realized that I’m a soft person. I think I’m sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I’m quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.

The Al Gore movie cashed in on his personality and the question of where he had been in the six years since his failed US presidential bid. The same movie starring any NASA scientist would have lost money.

It used to be that a movie star would have a 20-year career. Now if you get three to five years, you’re lucky.

If you’re a movie star, the studios don’t want you to act. They just want you to show up and look good and chase girls and have a lot of laughs.

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.

If you dress like a movie star, you have me.

In the studios days, the public’s perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they’re no longer perceived as different – they’ve become human, so to speak.

The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star.

You can’t be an openly gay movie star. You can’t be an openly gay pop star, really – minus Ricky Martin.

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

I don’t really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

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

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.