I miss a lot of things; that’s the price one pays for stardom. I miss standing in queues, buying tickets, and watching films first day first show. It isn’t the same going to preview theatres or multiplexes and trying to stay incognito.
With due respect to women, I would like to say that people should not try to focus much on their outer beauty. We can only gain stardom when we are confident from inside.
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.
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.
There were aspects of stardom I didn’t like, which were of no consequence, really, but the positive things far outweighed the negative. By the time I came to write ‘Setting Sons,’ I felt my writing was more like prose, set to music.
I got stardom too easily. I didn’t appreciate the breaks. But that’s all behind me now.
I am not chasing stardom.
In my lifetime, I’ve discovered a great many incredibly talented individuals. Some have achieved stardom. Simultaneously, I’ve seen many dreams shattered, egos destroyed and lives changed forever. The end destination may well be fame and fortune, but the road to stardom is littered with broken hearts.
My children and their generation are not aware of the stardom I had enjoyed during my younger days.
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.
I don’t concentrate about stardom as I always wanted to be an actor and remain to be the same.
Anupam can make you feel good in any situation. His sense of humour and connection with people makes him special. We both are real people and have not picked up the airs of stardom.
‘Kahaani’ gave me popularity and ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ stardom.
To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
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.
I have to maintain my stardom.
Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor’s shoulders.
I’m sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.
To survive in this industry, you need to prove yourself. Stardom follows.
In rock stardom there’s an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.
Rock stardom will die because nobody will make enough money any more to be rock stars.
Thank God I’ve never had the sort of intense fame that means you can’t walk up the road. That sort of blazing stardom must be difficult to cope with and maintain; my career has just bubbled along happily.
We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.
I’d love for Samantha to continue acting after our marriage. She has worked hard to achieve her stardom. Unlike me, she had no family empire to back her career in Telugu cinema.
I never wanted to do film. I don’t have the right face, and I don’t like stardom. I like the fact that I have this wonderful thing that gives you status, but I’m most interested in doing decent work.
I am not saying that those who crave for conventional stardom are wrong in their aspirations. But that’s not what I want.
I still remember most people in the industry warning me that I was not playing the stardom game and that I was becoming niche because these content films don’t do big numbers.
I don’t wish stardom on anyone. When I hear people say, ‘this guy’s a star,’ I always say, ‘good luck.’
Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don’t think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
I never pictured myself in California. I just thought I would be a character actress in New York on the stage. I never really had that stardom goal; I just wanted to be able to work as an actress and not as a waitress.
It doesn’t matter how big the film is – if the story is not good, it will not be accepted. Stardom can maybe pull audiences to theatres but beyond that it is all about content.
Well, obviously I’m not Mark Wahlberg – I have much better abs and I look much better in a pair of Calvin Kleins but when I saw Mark Wahlberg interacting with the world, I realised that his stardom was sort of a result of the movies he had done and the publicity that he had got and the work that he did.
When I started out in independent films in the early ’70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn’t about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You’d die before you’d be bought.
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.
I didn’t want just a squeaky-clean book that just illuminated my stardom. For me, that would just be such a waste of time. I wanted my book to reflect real life – the highs and lows.
I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
In the long run, there are people who’ve made more money or had bigger stardom at points. But, I think I’ll have come out winning.
My mother gave up her career bringing us up, and she has played a very important role in keeping us grounded. Even now I don’t take my work home, my stardom home. It ends where it is supposed to end. There is a life beyond stardom, and it’s a very normal life which I cherish. I anyway don’t handle attention very well.
The release of my first film was a very memorable event in my life. It was stardom overnight. There was a very big premiere.
You know why stardom screws up people ? Because it gives you too many choices. As a 20-year-old I was making as much money as, well, as much money as it was possible for a 20-year-old to make in India. That sort of thing could drive people nuts. But I put my in money in the bank.
When you are talking about human emotions, stardom doesn’t matter.
I was born on March 3, 1970, as Mom and Dad’s stardom was nearing its peak, while The Johnny Cash Show, was airing regularly on network TV.
As I got older, with my work, I became aware of the responsibility of film, and I feel one of the best ways I can apply myself as an actor, is to go beyond movie stardom and celebrity.
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.
My own aunt was Merle Oberon, so movie stardom was not a faraway mystery to me as a child: it was part of the family business.
I am still getting used to stardom. It’s a great place to be in.
I believe stardom is a by-product of good work.
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