Film Stardom Quotes

I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.

I'm glad that I didn't get a part in 'Scream 2' and become a star in 1995.

The glamourous aspect of my career began with 'Shaher ki ladki,' which is how I sort of restarted my career.

People are always saying they loved me in 'Titanic.'

I am very happy that in the second year of my acting career in Bollywood I got to do a biopic.

I like the legend behind him. James Dean symbolizes the young actor's dream. He struggled to get into Hollywood. He shot to fame at the age of 24 but only got to star in three films. It's kind of a fantasy of what could have been.

Some of the biggest and most popular movie stars in the world are limited or have constantly done what they do really well. Being versatile is not necessarily the greatest quality for an actor.

I don't want to be a great actress. I want to be a sexy movie star.

In 'Wall Street,' Charlie Sheen carried that movie.

No support of one star or one director or one producer can make any individual actor a star. You have to connect with the audience; the audience have to like you. That is something that cannot be manipulated or fought for or tried for. Either they like you, or they don't.

When I saw Spencer Tracy in 'The Old Man and the Sea,' I realised the distinction between being an actor and a film star. He was both, and I, too, resolved to try and be both.

Katherine Heigl was a movie star. I thought she was going to be one, and it was fun to watch this young actress getting better every day.

I want to be in a Tarantino movie, more than anything in the world.

I'm going to be a great movie star some day.

There was never a conscious dream to enter films.

I fell in love immediately with Daisy Ridley. She is just a superstar born.

I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.

Because of what I did in Punjabi cinema, I have got offers in Bollywood.

I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.

If I get a call from Imtiaz Ali or Zoya Akhtar to star in their films, I won't think twice.

Dustin Hoffman said this one time, that if he hadn't made it as a film star, he would still be happy as a character actor because he was a character actor because of his face from day one, so he would always work in the theater.

When I did 'The Sound of Music' and 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Americanization of Emily,' all three were in the can and had not yet been released. So I was driving around having a fine time learning about how to make movies and enjoying myself enormously, and then they were released, and it was quite an assault, in a way.

It's very cool to be able to say that my first real film was 'Footloose' and my second film I got to star alongside Tom Cruise and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

We have seen many child actors who have gone astray. They were particular that 'Zakhm' was going to be my last film as a child actor and after that I took a six year break for education.

Bette Davis taught Hollywood to follow an actress instead of the actress following the camera, and she's probably the best movie actress there's ever been.