Stardom Quotes - Page 2

• We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Stars, Believe, Rocks

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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• I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. 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, Character, Differences

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• I don't like the trappings of stardom. I wear the shoes and the Dolce & Gabbana, because I'm told to. But I'm not trapped by it.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Shoes, Trapped

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• I really don't have that much interest in stardom.

  Tom Verlaine

  Interest

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• In Italy it's full-on stardom when you're a cyclist - eating in restaurants for free, it's great.

  David Millar

  Cyclists, Eating, Restaurants

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• Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.

  Salman Khan

  Sometimes, Advantage, Feels

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• I never did anything about my stardom, it never meant anything to me.

  Tom Courtenay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.

  Leif Garrett

  Trying, Want, Comeback

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• Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man -- and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.

  Frank Zappa

  Men, Elephants, Differences

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.

  Gary Sinise

  Priorities, Risk, Acting

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• The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.

  Jessica Savitch

  Real, Ideas, Television

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Firsts, Innocence, Film

  City Limits magazine, London, April 7, 1988.

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• You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Stars, Names, Spells

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

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• Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself, I always take a trip to the U.S. The immigration guys kick the star out of my stardom.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Witty, Stars, Guy

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• We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition.

  Jay Hernandez

  School, Littles, Recognition

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• Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.

  Francesca Annis

  Fame, Shoulders, Sat

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• I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

  Billy Wilder

  Movie, Great Year, Hollywood Films

  Billy Wilder (1999). “Sunset Boulevard”, p.22, Univ of California Press

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• There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

  Joseph Addison

  Idols, Unhappy, Literature

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1797). “The Spectator”, p.298

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• No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

  Robert Frost

  Memories, Ends, Disregard

  Robert Frost, David Bradley, Dewitt Jones (1979). “Robert Frost, a tribute to the source”, Henry Holt & Co

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• He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Stars, Light

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.184, Penguin

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• I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Men, Rumor, Obscurity

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• I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

  Christine Baranski

  Culture, Commodity, I'm Sad

  Interview with Randy Shulman, www.metroweekly.com. June 7, 2006.

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• Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!

  Kip Winger

  Stars, Rocks, Growth

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• Stardom is no longer the fuel of my soul. It is the deeper aspects of life that nurture me. And I realise I am very blessed.

  Sharon Stone

  Blessed, Soul, Fuel

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• I was 13 - 14 when I first tasted stardom. In the summer holidays, my dad made me act in these films that went on to become superhits. I became a child star.

  Mahesh Babu

  Summer, Stars, Children

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