Alden Ehrenreich famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff. So, getting to work with those kinds of directors and getting to tell those stories is what I want to do.
-- Alden Ehrenreich

#Movie Love #Directors #Stories
For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.
-- Alden Ehrenreich

#Art #Color #Stories
When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers films and westerns and stuff like that. Thats where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure.
-- Alden Ehrenreich

#Brother #Kids #Parent
I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.
-- Alden Ehrenreich

#Romance #Way #Calling
Some movies, I think, present ideas of the world that just don't help people with their lives. They just present things that are fleeting or stupid. So that's what I'm careful about - making sure I'm part of something that is saying something that I think is valuable in the world of people, not necessarily in the world of art.
-- Alden Ehrenreich

#Art #Stupid #Thinking
I buy myself a present whenever I don't get a role that I really wanted.
-- Alden Ehrenreich

#Roles #Wanted
You get bummed out, and then you go, "Oh! Now I get to go buy a present for myself." That kind of helps.
-- Alden Ehrenreich

#Helping #Kind #Bummed Out
So many times you can't get a foot in the door unless you're already in the room.
-- Alden Ehrenreich

#Doors #Feet #Rooms
The idea of it [Star Wars] is really exciting, but the most fun part is the actual job you get to do: the character that you get to play, the people that you work with, the day-to-day experience.
-- Alden Ehrenreich

#Stars #Jobs #Fun
Woody Allen is kind of the one example I don't have. Because the way he works and the amount of shooting time that I did on that film, I didn't really get to know him, so he kind of stays as "Woody Allen" to me.
-- Alden Ehrenreich

#Example #Shooting #Way
The last three movies I've done, I played a cowboy, then I played a soldier, and now I play Han Solo. So the little kid in me is having a real joyride.
-- Alden Ehrenreich

#Real #Kids #Cowboy
But even a kid, directing was something that I did. I made short films in school. I feel like I've been in the best film school in the world.
-- Alden Ehrenreich

#School #Kids #World
Warren [Beatty] was very adamant and very encouraging of me to direct. It's definitely something that I'd like to pursue more in the future.
-- Alden Ehrenreich

#Adamant #Pursue #Beatty
The biggest challenge to being an actor is when you're not working, just being unemployed, the downtime and not having anything to do.
-- Alden Ehrenreich

#Challenges #Downtime #Actors
Acting-wise, I've had all these experiences. Yet when I look at certain people whose careers I admire, they've gotten to play so many different characters. So it's just that - getting to have more of these singular little adventures where you get to be a part of a completely different world.
-- Alden Ehrenreich

#Wise #Adventure #Character
I got turned down for a million jobs until I got my first movie with Francis [Ford Coppola].
-- Alden Ehrenreich

#Jobs #Firsts #Turned Down
I feel like I would have ultimately ended up pursuing acting. It probably would have been much more difficult and taken a lot longer for me to get into it professionally.
-- Alden Ehrenreich

#Taken #Acting #Difficult
I'm trying to make myself sound better.
-- Alden Ehrenreich

#Trying #Sound
That's a lot more legitimate than the retail therapy I do.
-- Alden Ehrenreich

#Retail #Therapy
I've had that experience many, many, times - when you don't get roles. I'd developed a good muscle for shaking it off.
-- Alden Ehrenreich

#Roles #Muscles #Shaking It
I auditioned for four or five years and didn't get anything after that.
-- Alden Ehrenreich

#Years #Four #Five
Howard Hughes innovation was in the aviation field. His designs and spirit of experimentation was at the forefront. As far as his work as film producer, he certainly went after a bigger and more ambitious kind of filmmaking, even if he wasn't necessarily a cinema artist.
-- Alden Ehrenreich

#Artist #Design #Innovation
[Howard Hughes ] approached filmmaking like he approached all of his inventiveness - it gave him an opportunity to make a name for himself in the world.
-- Alden Ehrenreich

#Opportunity #Names #World

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