David Suchet Quotes

I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.

I know doing movies is where I need to be. That's where my audience wants to see me.

I'm always so amazed by which performances work really, really well and which ones don't. But I think it's just mostly, 'She's Out Of My League,' so many people saw that movie on DVD and on the plane. Just millions of people saw that movie. That's the reason I'm somewhat famous.

I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.

There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.

We always thought that we'd go on from the show to have a career in movies.

Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.

Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.

I really didn't feel that my motion picture career was going the way I wanted it to go.

I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.

It's bizarre, that feeling as an actor, at being in the mecca of the film world and seeing billboards for a TV show that you're in pretty much everywhere.

I didn't want to go down the route of spending a year of my life making a movie that would never be seen. I may as well go down a route making a film that a lot of people will see, which is the whole idea behind cinema.

I think I've definitely found a niche working in comedy, but dramatic films are what brought me here. After I saw 'Titanic' in the theater, I got the bug.

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.

I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different - I don't know how that works.

People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers.

Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me.

That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in motion pictures. pictures.

But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.

'The Stand' came out in May of '94 and was seen by 60 million people a night for four nights, and then two months later, 'Forrest Gump' opened. So within a very short time, I went from being depressed about not getting any work to being in two of the most popular shows of the year.

If the script is right, I'm not above doing a movie with broad appeal.

I was always realistic about the fact I wanted to be involved with big films.

There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

The most exciting thing for all of us is movies and movie stars.