Top 55 Big Star Quotes

Look at ‘Bonanza.’ If you rely on a gimmick or one big star, you’ve got a problem.

It’s like, sometimes I’ll watch a movie, and it’s got some big star in it playing a working-class person, and the character is in a grocery store, and you can kind of tell, from just watching the scene, that this actor doesn’t do their own shopping. So you have to have some sense of reality.

Before ‘Grease,’ John Travolta was a big star from ‘Welcome Back Kotter’… but that’s not where I met him. I met him at unemployment when we first moved to California.

Michael worked one day. Everybody was a little freaked out and nervous because he’s a really big star. We were already working with really big stars, but Michael is Michael.

Dolly Ki Doli’ excited me because it has unique characters. Though it is a smaller film and without a big star, it is still a mainstream film.

I trained with a guy by the name of Scott Casey. He actually worked with WWE back in the day, but he didn’t become a big star. What I want to teach is what he taught me: that the smallest things are what people are really looking for.

I’ve never crossed over to be a big star. I’d like to be in a big $100 million movie, though. ‘Cause I was in an ‘Austin Powers,’ I think I had two lines, and every once in a while, I get a check, a really nice check, for that movie.

Many years ago, I had the pleasure of editing a book by Joan Crawford, who, like Norma Desmond, was still a big star; it was just the movies that had gotten smaller.

Amitabh Bachchan is such a senior actor, a big star, everyone is in awe of him, but he is such a great guy to work with.

It’s an institution that was born with my brother Chetan and me. I did it for him. I was becoming a big star in the late 1940s, and he needed a company to make films. So when he left Navketan, I brought in Goldie, and when Goldie left, I carried on alone. No book on Indian cinema is complete without mention of Navketan.

We’ve always had a simple philosophy in casting. We don’t care if somebody’s a big star or a little star. We just want the best possible actor for the part.

I’m preparing myself to be a great, great fighter and also a big star in the sport.

When I went out on tour as Bing Hitler I would hook up with Lenny and we’d get drunk together. He was always very supportive. He was a big star and a lot of what he said to me had power and impact. Apart from that, I just like him.

You have to wait for a big star to come in and generate interest on a project, and now that has become me, which is an amazing blessing.

Lynda Carter, I think the reason I liked her was because she was so down to earth. Even though she was a big star and she was Miss America, she was very approachable.

I know I want to work for my whole life because I know I can’t live without music or dancing. But I don’t know if I want to be a big star.

I lived in buses. I didn’t really have anything else. I didn’t feel like a female, and I ended up really kind of isolated. Everybody thinks you’re so happy and so wealthy and such a big star, but you’re really kind of lonely and don’t know how to stop it.

I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money.

I didn’t want to be a big star. I wanted to be a really good actor.

I don’t want to get any bigger – what does a ‘big star’ mean? I just want to be loved.

I’m a big star in Asia, but I never think about being famous.

I never said, ‘I’m going to be a big star.’ I said, ‘I’m going to be a good actor.’ And that took the pressure off.

I’m not a big star in Japan. I’m an actor. I have a very normal life. Four days a week, I cook at home. A star doesn’t do that.

I think when you make something that is non-mainstream and people don’t have automatic way of consuming, like you don’t have a big star, or a hit song or marketing money then you need to find some way to make audience aware of your film.

I guess I’ve always had a – not really thought of myself as this big star, big identity in the game.

I don’t think I am a very big star on TV.

You have to remember that in the microcosm of Cincinnati, Ohio, through northern Kentucky, my father was a big star, still is. So that made my sister and me really visible. Everybody knew us, talked about us.

Frank Sinatra discovered me at a nightclub called P.J.’s in Hollywood. It was 1962. He used to come in there a lot with all his big star friends. I was so nervous to see him. I’ve only had one idol in my life, and that was Frank Sinatra.

I am thrilled to debut in Kannada alongside Puneeth Rajkumar. I know of him and what a big star he is.

I used to think I was a big star. And I used to think that the TV industry, Balaji, and my show will not survive without me. But then I realised that you cannot be bigger than your work.

I’m not interested in being a really big star. I want to be in control of my life. I don’t want to worry about the rent.

We can find athletes. The biggest challenge is personality. It’s finding charisma. In most sports, they tell you to turn down the personality. Look like everyone else on the team. It’s the team; it’s not you. In this, it’s the opposite. It’s you, not the team. We want you to become the big star.

I may not be a big star, but I am appreciated by one and all. I feel that’s an achievement.

I felt inferior. I had this tremendous need to perform. I wanted to be acceptable to my peers. I thought if I could just be a big star, I’d feel like somebody, too.

Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation.

I wasn’t one of those kids who was chasing the dream and wanted to get to Hollywood because one day I was gonna get my chance and be a big star. I never felt like that.

Jensen Ackles has everything I want. He’s in great shape. He’s got a full head of hair. He’s got a square jawline. He’s a big star!

Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn’t want to be a big star, just a long star. That’s what I want too.

I can’t compete with really big stars. I’m not a big star; I’m just an actor who came from Delhi to pursue her passion.

Now when people say, ‘Oh, you’re going to be such a big star!’ I simply don’t listen.

The UFC will always need to have a Plan B when they have a big star fight me.

People told me all of the time, ‘You could be such a big star if you just talked about yourself more,’ but I’m not good at that. It’s always been about team.

If becoming a big star means doing a film that I can’t watch with my daughter, I don’t want to become that star.

I have three daughters who grew up while I was working on the special editions and the prequels. They got to be big ‘Star Wars’ fans. And, you know, I would see them identifying with a lot of the male characters, and I just thought, ‘Star Wars’ could use more good strong female leads.’

When I started in movies, they said I’d be this big star, but I was only a moderate one. Not enough good pictures. It’s important to be in a good piece of work no matter the size of one’s own part.

When you’re working with a big star, you always wonder what it’s going to be like. Hugh Jackman puts you at ease within 10 minutes. He has such a wonderful energy and is so generous when you’re doing a scene. He’s just so funny and friendly and playful – he instantly becomes your friend.

Many times, one does get interesting work, but it is also work that doesn’t get funded because one sure-shot way to get funding is to take a big star.

I never think of myself as a big star. Getting good scripts is all I think about. I don’t have a godfather or anyone to take care of me. To move forward, I have to be very careful in choosing the right scripts, the right director, and the right technicians.

Jose Mourinho is a big star… he’s cool.

High school girls love me. Fourteen to eighteen, I’m a big star with them.

I come from a family of actors. My grandfather was like a Laurence Olivier with the Comedie Francaise. Since I was four I went every week to the Comedie Francaise. My aunt and grandmother were there, but my grandfather was a big star.

I was 19. ‘The One And Only’ was my first record. It went to No. 1 and I was this big star. I thought that was what happened when you released records. Of course that is not normal. It’s a great record and I’m still really proud of it but I think it was a bit of a fluke.

If you think that one should do a commercial picture because everyone is doing it and that one will become a big star after that, I think that if you don’t have that grain in you, it will not happen.

I’ll never be the biggest kind of star; I’ll be like Bob Duvall, respected as an actor but a lot of people can’t identify the face. I don’t have the personality of a big star, or the looks of a Mel Gibson or a Paul Newman, or the style of a George C. Scott.

People keep saying EC3 is the heart and soul of TNA: that he’s this homegrown star, and he is going to be this big star. But fans don’t understand that I’m the true star – I came off Vince McMahon’s TV.