Stardom Quotes

• A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

  Chet Atkins

  Long, Giving, Alternatives

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• I have the stardom glow.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Glowing

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• To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Stars, People, World

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

  John Wooden

  Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.63, B&H Publishing Group

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• There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom,' only talent can keep you at the top.

  Jim Dale

  Talent, Instant, Spray

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.

  Lauren Bacall

  Profession, Accidents

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• All you have in the end is to look back and like the choices you've made.

  Matt Damon

  Choices, Looks, Inspirational Celebrity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.

  A. R. Rahman

  Believe, Men, Soul

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• Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

  Natalie Wood

  Movie, Stars, Thinking

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• 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.

  Morgan Freeman

  Stars, People, Stories

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• Stardom equals freedom. It's the only equation that matters.

  Steve McQueen

  Matter, Equations

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• I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.

  Freddie Mercury

  Stars, Rocks, Singers

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• You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.

  Marilyn Horne

  Stars, Work, Careers

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• I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.

  Brenda Blethyn

  Thinking, People, Fame

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• Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.

  Matt Damon

  Inspirational, Choices, Going Away

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• It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.

  Bela Lugosi

  Hard Work, Years, Roles

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• Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Responsibility, People, Honor

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• The stars are the apexes of what triangles!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Triangles, Fame

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Stardom can be a gilded slavery.

  Helen Hayes

  Slavery, Gilded

  Helen Hayes (2014). “On Reflection: An Autobiography”, p.233, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

  LeBron James

  Can Do, I Can

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• God makes stars. I just produce them.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  God, Stars, Fame

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• It's nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I'm bloody close.

  John Lydon

  Nice, May Not Be Perfect, People

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• Authentic stardom ... is a gift which, if it is to have any permanent significance, must be bestowed by a public rather than a manager.

  Katharine Cornell

  Actors, Fame, Significance

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• One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Stars, Fear, Successful

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.

  Ben Hecht

  Party, Greatness, Glowing

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