Gene Hackman Quotes

I'm an actress, not a celebrity.

All of the press and stuff - that's the scary stuff. The acting is what I got trained to do.

Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.

I didn't become an actor to become a celebrity.

I want to be an actor - I don't want to be a celebrity. They are two different things, and people have forgotten that they are different.

I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.

I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.

This whole celebrity racket, it's not really my bag. I don't really do that stuff, and I am not looking to get famous myself. I would love it if my characters get famous, my work was well known and appreciated. But I'm an actor, not a spokes model or a celebrity or whatever that is. I don't know how to be that.

Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.

I never wanted to do film. I don't have the right face, and I don't like stardom. I like the fact that I have this wonderful thing that gives you status, but I'm most interested in doing decent work.

I've never been interested in being famous. I enjoy acting. That's what's important to me.

Now that I am playing a movie star, I am ready to be a real one.

You can either be a movie star or an actor. I'm an actor.

With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.

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.

There are two jobs. There is being an actor, and there is being a celebrity. Some people are really good at both. Some people are really good celebrities and terrible actors, and some people are really good actors and terrible celebrities. Hopefully, I am a really good actor and an OK celebrity.

I think of myself as an actor.

I didn't choose to be an actress.

Certainly, when I walk into an audition, a lot of people already know who I am.

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

Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn't really be interesting to me.

I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor.

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

What I want to be is an actor, not a star.

I'm not particularly good at 'celebrity'; I don't think it was something I was born to do. I think I can get by as an actor, but I've never been one for the red carpet and don't put a lot of stock in celebrities that are famous for being famous.