Edd Byrnes Quotes

I watched movies, obviously, just like anybody else, but there was nothing to make me think, 'I'm going to go to L.A. and become a movie star,' or anything like that.

I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

I told everybody that I was going to be an actress in Hollywood one day. People looked at me like I was crazy.

I always knew I'd be an actor. I always knew I'd at least be on a big screen somewhere.

I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.

I wanted to star in a western opposite Robert Redford. That was my plan for my life.

Being an action star is all I had ever hoped to be. I ultimately knew I would be an action star.

I just thought, 'I want to be an action hero.'

This sounds crazy, but my goal is to be nominated for an Oscar. I was the kid who was practicing my acceptance speech when I was ten.

When I first moved to L.A., I went walking down the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and I would tell myself, 'One day, I'm going to have my own star.'

Hollywood has never been a goal, necessarily - there was no 'Conquer America' game plan for me.

I think, being a kid, you always think about being a movie star. And then as I got older, I started thinking about just the work.

To try to crack into Hollywood, it's a dream come true.

This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they'll take me.

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.

Even as a kid in the Bronx, I wanted an adventurous life.

I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that.

Working with Robert Redford would be an unbelievable dream come true.

Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought - I want to sell out!

Like my father, like most actors, I was a pretty ambitious guy.

I had wanted to be a movie star and had thought I would be a movie star since I was very little. It was just something I saw in my future. But somehow when it happened, I wasn't ready for it.

You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.

People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.

I never really thought I wanted to become a movie star.

I had no dream of being a movie star.