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What I want to be is an actor, not a star.

You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.

If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.

I want to be an actor - I don't want to be a celebrity. They are two different things, and people have forgotten that they are different.

Why would anyone want to be famous, certainly not me. My only goal in an acting career is to be able to work full time as an actor, filmmaker. When I get to that level, which I will, in this business where I can spend one hundred percent of my time honing my craft, then I will be complete.

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.

The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that.

I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.

I don't want to say, 'I want to be in Hollywood,' like so many actors do, but I know that Hollywood is still making good movies, and I'd like to be part of that someday.