Nicholas Meyer Quotes

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

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.

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

I lead a unique existence as someone who is famous for being young on film, or young in the minds of everyone.

You do a lead in a series, you're kind of in a bubble of self-containment and almost not really present in the world at all. You're really a brand more than a human being.

The only difference is that I'm a celebrity, and I'm shown to the world. Apart from that, I think I'm like most women my age.

Being a movie star is a quality that somebody sort of embodies, and being a celebrity is something that people give to you. It has to do with being recognizable, as opposed to something that people recognize in you. I just hope to make good movies. I know that sounds simple, but it's true.

I wouldn't consider myself a so-called 'celebrity.' Arrrgh, for the love of God!

The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.

I think all good actors are personalities. If they're not, they're not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.

I always wanted to be a movie star. I thought it meant being famous and having breakfast in bed. I didn't know you had to be up at 4:00 a.m.

To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself.

I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.

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.

One of the weird things about Hollywood is we're all imposters; we're all just glammed up.

People know who you are when you've never met them. For them, through interviews and seeing you perform, they feel like they know you and you've never seen them before. It's really different, but it's awesome.

Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening.

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

Fame should be left to the film stars.

When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.

All that celebrity stuff isn't me. It's just not acting.

Audiences could never relate to me as anything other than Tori Spelling.

I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.

I don't really want to be a celebrity.