I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've been in movies where so much of the conversation was about, 'Well, after this movie, you're gonna be the biggest movie star.' I sort of have learned that you never really can predict any of that.
The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star.
It's not my ambition to be a big star.
Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor - this has been proved several times - and I like my casts to have great actors. Acting is more important to me than being a star.
What I've realized, and had to become comfortable with, is that I'm just, I don't think, a star. I'm an actor.
I'm not an actor who is trying to be a movie star.
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'm loving saying 'I'm not a big movie star, but I play one on television.'
I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star.
Everybody says, 'You impress me as a guy who never wanted to be a movie star.' I say, 'Everybody in the world wants to be a movie star.'