Film Stars – Quotes

My idea is just

My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I’ve done before – that’s what I try and do, because you know, I’m an actor, not a film star. Eddie Marsan

We applaud the people

We applaud the people who are film stars, who get elected to an office, who are very athletic, the small group who play with power in a very limited way. But we’re completely oblivious to what can be done to the infinite realities that exist in front of us. We deny them. Frederick Lenz

I have a very

I have a very ‘theatre’ face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the ’20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face. Faith Prince

Pleasure resorts are like

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty… embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them. Doris Lessing

Harrison Ford was pretty

Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema. Dirk Benedict

I wanted to be

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage. Dirk Benedict

Being the offspring of

Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, ‘It was a perfect script for she and I,’ inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, ‘Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?’ Dick Cavett

Dustin Hoffman said this

Dustin Hoffman said this one time, that if he hadn’t made it as a film star, he would still be happy as a character actor because he was a character actor because of his face from day one, so he would always work in the theater. Denis Leary

I wish to be

I wish to be appreciated not only as a film star but also for the person I am. If I manage to bring a smile on people’s faces, then I think I’ll be successful. Deepika Padukone

We can see the

We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday’s films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep the plays of dead dramatists upon our bookshelves, but the actor who holds his audience captive for one brief moment upon a lighted stage vanishes forever when the curtain falls. Daphne du Maurier