Stardom Quotes - Page 3

• No, I never thought of it in those terms. I used to go into agents' offices and they'd have pictures of these handsome movie men and I knew I'd never be up there. I'm a journeyman actor. I didn't think about stardom.

  Eli Wallach

  Men, Thinking, Office

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• Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Sex, Eye

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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• I've been in training for stardom.

  Bernie Mac

  Training

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• The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.

  Caitlin Fitzgerald

  Hard Work, Years, Dangerous

  Biography/ Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.

  Donny Osmond

  People, Sometimes, Entitlement

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• There is a lot of struggle in being an actor; you need so much emotional strength, no matter what level of stardom you have, that it's nice to have something steady.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Nice, Struggle, Emotional

  "Sanaa Lathan Finds Her Way Back to Vera Stark". Interview with Brian Scott Lipton, www.theatermania.com. September 21, 2012.

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• Every artist that becomes famous has a team, and needs to convince someone to believe in them enough to have others rally around them to achieve stardom. If I can be that person, then I am happy to do it.

  Wendy Starland

  Team, Believe, Artist

  "A Conversation with Wendy Starland". Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it's a lot of work. It's work to be a star. I don't enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.

  Barbra Streisand

  Stars, Thinking, Creative

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", transcripts.cnn.com. December 23, 2012.

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• Rock stardom will die because nobody will make enough money any more to be rock stars.

  Noel Gallagher

  Stars, Rocks, Enough

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• It was the vehicle that propelled me to international stardom. ("Harder They Come") I was known as a singer/songwriter before that, but people did not know me as an actor. It showed the world where the music I contributed to create was coming from. It opened the gates for Jamaican music, internationally.

  Jimmy Cliff

  People, World, Singers

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• The way I approach stardom and the show, I'm like a politician. I'm an elected late-night official to do your work.

  Arsenio Hall

  Night, Way, Politician

  "Q&A: Arsenio Hall on His Return to Late Night". Interview with Dan Hyman, www.esquire.com. September 9, 2013.

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• My father, Benjamin Shiller, told me not to believe in authorities or celebrities - that society tends to imagine them as superhuman. It's good advice. People are snowed by celebrities all the time. In academia people have this idea of achieving stardom - publishing in the best journals, being at the best university, writing on the hot topic everyone else is writing about. But that's what my father told me not to do. He taught me that you have to pursue things that sound right to you.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Father, Believe, Writing

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• I never liked stardom. It's weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.

  Barbra Streisand

  Creative, Process, Creative Process

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• I remember when I was maybe 27 years old and kind of at the height of my movie stardom - it was around the time of the Oscar and this and that. I think I was very much believing my own hype, which how could you not? I was sitting with my dad, feeling great about my life and everything that was happening, and he was like, "You know, you're getting a little weird...You're kind of an asshole." And I was like, "What the hell?" I was totally devastated. But it turned out to be basically the best thing that ever happened to me.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Dad, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• As for super-stardom, I can say that I'm ready for anything. I feel like I've mastered so many stages in my life and the cool thing is, I don't see that energy changing anything.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Energy, Stage, Ready

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• That's how you deal with stardom; you make it the least important part of your life.

  John Lithgow

  Important, Deals

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• It was my second show as a writer, and Justin Timberlake was just coming off boy-band stardom. People were rolling their eyes, but I used to watch the Mickey Mouse Club, and I knew all those kids were talented as hell. Justin was as comfortable on camera in that first episode as any of our cast members.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Kids, Eye, Boys

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I always wanted to make strangers and friends and family laugh. I was over ten years younger than my brothers. It was hard to get attention without some kind of gimmick, like athletic stardom or being funny.

  Gary Gulman

  Brother, Years, Strangers And Friends

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• I like being very busy. I think that's the definition of stardom, really. It's energy. It really is.

  Faye Dunaway

  Thinking, Energy, Actors

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• Celebrities were quick to understand that paparazzi could make icons of them. The more a star is followed and admired, the greater the adulation. So they raised the stakes, sometimes hiding when they don't even need to. Today, stardom is more ephemeral and it's photography that gives them their celebrity status.

  Ron Galella

  Photography, Stars, Icons

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• The name Derek Jeter is made for stardom. He's got an infectious smile, and he's so handsome and well-behaved. He's just a fine young man who does everything right. He's like Jack Armstrong and Frank Merriwell, guys I grew up rooting for. Some guys come along who just measure up.

  George Steinbrenner

  Men, Names, Guy

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• There are people who fly to the height of stardom in a single day, and then there are people like me. I used to have this ridiculous idea that I absolutely had to be a big, big movie star. Now all Im after is happiness.

  Teri Polo

  Stars, Ideas, People

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• You aim at all the things you have been told that stardom means the rich life, the applause, the parties cluttered with celebrities. Then you find that you have it all. And it is nothing, really nothing. It is like a drug that lasts just a few hours, a sleeping pill. When it wears off, you have to live without its help.

  Susan Hayward

  Party, Mean, Sleep

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• When you look at sort of pop stardom now, some of these singers, it seems like the idea of them was created in a marketing meeting, and then they just found someone to sort of fulfill that role.

  John Lloyd Young

  Found Someone, Ideas, Marketing

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• I don't know why it (stardom) happened-but it's kinda nice. Maybe it's because I'm someone off the streets. Maybe people relate to me.

  Steve McQueen

  Nice, People, Fame

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