A lot of Disney Channel actors and actresses, when they stop working for Disney Channel, they have a real aversion for not wanting to be remembered by Disney Channel.
In essence, big stars come with a set image, and breaking it becomes a task for certain stories.
You can't be an openly gay movie star. You can't be an openly gay pop star, really - minus Ricky Martin.
I sort of went 'Oh, great. I'm getting these great roles and I love doing them, but I'm going to be Anthony Perkins for the rest of my life.'
I don't think that I'm a pop star. On paper, I'm bad at being a pop star with the conventional idea people have.
I never liked being called the young rebel star.
Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.
I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.
For an actor, who has done so many commercial movies, who has a large chunk of his fan following addressing him as 'guru,' it's not easy to opt for roles that strip one of the stardom.
There's this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn't do TV.
I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that.
I don't maybe follow the normal star profile, and it's not something that I particularly want to embrace in terms of the publicity thing and wanting to be famous and known.
I relaxed. “I would imagine in your world, girls are much different than here in the real world. I’m sure if you spent some time with the everyday girl, you would find I am not unique.” He grinned at me. “The everyday girl is who writes me fan mail and buys out my concerts. They are the girls who yell my name and run after me like crazed animals. You’ve not even tried to sneak into my room and squirt your perfume on my pillow.
I don't feel like a big star.
I don't like the term 'rock star.'
I don't represent myself as a star, but an actor who wants to make movies.
It was mostly an aura about him (Gene Kelly). For me he was Hollywood. The way I'd imagined it as a child.
I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know.
After so much reality TV and confessional celebrity interviews, the public is tired of accessible stars. Who needs them to be 'Just Like Us?' 'Just Like Us' means just as boring as we are.
My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.
When you know who you are, you know who you are. That's the real dangerous thing in Hollywood, because they all want to create you and mold you.
Yeah, I think Michael has had to deal with that label of being Michael Caine for a long time.
What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
