Top 105 Stardom Quotes

Stardom should be a discovery. You don’t hammer it onto people’s heads. You don’t demand it. You command it.

Yet there are film stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra who never allowed the mafia to dictate terms to them. But starlets like Monica Bedi used the mafia connection to win stardom and is now paying heavily.

I don’t believe in stardom or in the number game. What I concentrate more is on my work and how I can improve my character.

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.

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.

I’d always dreamt of acting but, in Adelaide, we don’t have exposure to the opportunities that make stardom a possibility.

Stardom is just an uneasy seat on top of a tricky toboggan. Being a star is merely perching at the head of the downgrade. A competent featured player can last a lifetime. A star, a year or two. There’s all that agony of finding suitable stories, keeping in character, maintaining illusion.

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!

The last person who was brave enough to cast me was Rahul Bose in ‘Everybody Says I’m Fine.’ He gave me no choice. He is my dearest friend. I confided in him about how disillusioned I was by the business of cinema and stardom. He offered me a role.

People have such false perceptions of how stardom really works.

I don’t think stardom will ever go to my head.

Stardom is a crazy thought. If that’s what my path is, then that’s where I’m excited to be headed towards.

I’m a warrior at heart. A lot of other people do it for money, or they want stardom and fame because they want to be famous or they just want to be on TV, and they just happen to have the skills to be a good fighter.

Winning takes precedence over all of it. That’s the ultimate happiness. It’s not location. It’s not stardom. It’s not ‘where can I make the most money.’ It’s winning, and winning championships.

One of the regrettable things in my life is that my dad was not around to see my stardom, to see me wrestle or to see what I achieved by the dream I had at an early age, influenced by where he would like to go.

The kids like to get pictures of me for their parents. They know how proud I am of them-they have a lot more to worry about than my stardom. They are trying to make good choices for their own lives, but this gives them a little fun. They are part of my family.

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.

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 I’m after is happiness.

In Sweden, stardom is looked upon as phony. You walk to the theater every day like everybody else.

When you’re in this business, you’re chasing false identities, chasing money and stardom, which is nothing you can hold onto.

Child stardom is a really hard thing. It can really lead to bad things, and I think a lot of people have gone through that.

Phil Handy played for me in England and has obviously risen to stardom in his area of what he does.

My father is an amazing person. While he was a huge star, he never carried his stardom home and always remained simple and just our father at home. I have four siblings, and we were all very grounded. We lived a very simple life: would go in an auto rickshaw to school, played with normal boys.

I have no status or stardom. I was just willing to die for my dream.

I think the reason you use an actor is if they are right for the role. Most of the high-profile stars tend to be good actors. That’s probably what led to their fame. So if they are right for the movie, you can certainly use them. But I don’t want to, not at all. Stardom and Hollywood overpower the ideas and the film.

Nobody put the camera on the background singers who were singing. It was on Stevie Wonder. It was on Elton John. It was on whoever was the lead singer out front. We were 20 feet from stardom.

You really have to love the work. You can’t look for stardom. That’s a by-product.

What I learnt was a real star never comes on set wearing stardom.

I never feel insecure about my career because I believed that in some way or other, good things come to you. This might be the only reason that I never take pride in stardom or a celebrity status.

If you’re a young actor, unless you’re on a very short list at the studios, we have to be very creative about moving your career along. Otherwise, all we can do is hope to get lucky and find that perfect role that pops you into stardom.

For an actor, who has done so many commercial movies, who has a large chunk of his fan following addressing him as ‘guru,’ it’s not easy to opt for roles that strip one of the stardom.

I’m not actively seeking stardom. I just go to auditions, and I knock on wood.

I don’t believe in the concept of stardom.

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I’m much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there’s no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There’s no, like, ‘I’ll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.’

You know, rock stardom… I have a hard time discussing that because I don’t really accept it. It’s not really that tangible. What’s really bizarre is how it’s used as a thing – you know, ‘He’s the rock star of politics,’ ‘He’s the rock star of quarterbacks’ – like it’s the greatest thing in the world.

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.

Hindi films do not respect fine actors, it is all about super stars and stardom. Film-making is reduced to revolving around a star’s moods.

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.

I have both joyful and heartbreaking moments in life, even now. Stardom doesn’t give us everything.

I really want to do good work. I really do. My priority isn’t stardom.

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.

Some of those early photographs of me might as well be sepia. It’s always thought that I disclaim television and am too theatre, but the truth is ‘The Avengers’ bores me now. I was grateful because it catapulted me into stage stardom. It was good. I’m not ashamed of it. But I only did it for two years.

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.

You’re never quite prepared for the inundation of stardom, or whatever you want to call it.

I feel very fortunate to have made my debut with Sunny Deol. I’m aware of his stardom, his popularity, and his reach. I’m sure that teaming up with him has made people sit back and notice me.

I have never allowed stardom to get to my head.

I don’t think about stardom anymore. I’m way past that phase.

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

Stardom happens – you can’t plan it – it’s destiny, and you shouldn’t stand between you and your destiny. I’m letting my destiny play its part, and I go by my gut feeling. If I like my role, I say yes; if I don’t, I just refuse, as simple as that.

It’s no secret that many tales of tween stardom have had unhappy endings.

I don’t really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

To be honest, unless you rocket straight to stardom as a gorgeous young vampire, you can spend a lot of time working behind a bar.

What we forget is that the Academy is a star-maker, or it reinforces the stardom of people.

My music comes before my stardom, so the pressure of handling fame does not matter.

I’ll be honest, acting in a commercial film has its perks – crazy stardom, crazy money and frequent trips abroad – but why would I aspire for something I’m not cut out for?

I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, ‘Never, ever think that you’re better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won’t miss you once you’re gone,’ and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.

The benefits from stardom as Klinger outweigh any setbacks. It’s a double-edged sword. What makes you famous is what interferes with getting other roles.

I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while.