Steve Guttenberg Quotes

I wanted to be famous; I wanted to perform. Those things I really, really wanted more than anything else.

I didn't always know that I want to be an actor, but I always knew I wanted to be famous in anything that I do.

I've never dreamt of being on TV; I had never tried to be in the entertainment business at all.

I wanted to be famous. I guess I thought acting would make me famous.

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.

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day? I couldn't think of anything worse.

It's hard to bury your head in Los Angeles. People come up to you and say, 'Hey, I saw your picture on a bus.' It's tricky: You're excited by the possibilities, but you don't want to get too crazy.

I have a Tony Award now. It hasn't changed too much in the theater world, but it gives me entree for film stuff and TV stuff, where people will see me more easily now because they know me.

Would I like to be the lead girl? Who wouldn't?

I always wanted to be in the limelight, and I found I could get it by being on the stage. That was the beginning of everything for me.

People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most recognized for.

I was fanatically ambitious. All I ever wanted was to be a star. I didn't want to be a singer. I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a star.

For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are different.

I'm vain enough to want do a movie again.

What I've been noticing is people coming up to me and going, 'Are you an actor?' which is cool. That's ultimately what I want.

I know that everyone wants to know about 'Downton Abbey,' but the truth is that it was only a few days out of my life. Still, you play a distinctive part on a hit series, and everyone suddenly knows who you are. Isn't it crazy how this business works?

I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.

There's an art to being a good actor, there's an art to being a celebrity, and there's an art to longevity.

I never had any desire to become a well-known actress.

I didn't get into this for fame, I genuinely didn't. I love acting, and I know that's a cliche, but I didn't, really, I was very naive when it came to the whole being recognized thing.

I've been in training for stardom.

I don't necessarily want to be famous.

Show me an actor who doesn't want to be famous, and I'll show you a liar. Later, you realise that there's more to it than just the acquisition of fame, and money and girls. But that is what drives them and was what drove me, initially.