I wasn’t looking to be a star, I just happened to love acting, I was a reluctant actor.
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’m a four star general in this thing, and you don’t rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.
Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus ‘Star Wars.’ It’s just been an incredible time.
The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star.
I was a weird-looking chubby, half-Asian kid who didn’t have the pop star look.
In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.
When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.
I’ve got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them all to sign it. So that ain’t going nowhere. I’m going to die with that in my casket.
Gold Star Families Remembrance Week gives us an opportunity to honor and recognize the sacrifices made by the families of members of the Armed Forces who have made the ultimate sacrifice to protect our freedoms and secure our nation.
I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve.
I believe in the morals that I do. I believe in the projects I take part in and I think that has been my north star.
Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can’t imagine a greater success than she’s enjoyed.
I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.
Nobody teaches you to be a father. Nobody teaches you to be a husband. Nobody teaches you how to be a star. You have to learn to work with the tools.
I believe I’m from somewhere else, and I was put on this plain for a purpose. I’ve met other star children, too. We’re like spirits who move from world to world.
As a kid, I watched every Madonna documentary and tour. I was obsessed with her – and with any pop star of the ’80s.
My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me, he was still a rock star.
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term ‘magnitude’, which is used for the brightness of a star.
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.
When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
I can’t be the big star in the family. We have a family, and we are all equal.
I’m not a star, I’m an actor – there’s a difference!
You can’t fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.
During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people’s careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot.
I don’t want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.
When we started out in ’64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work.
Drag is pastiche and parody and satire. Drag queens are never meant to be stars. We make fun of stars. Drag queens are the people that ‘point’ at the star.
I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill.
I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn’t want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.
Being a part-time pop star was perfect, really, when I wasn’t worn out by the partying.
Doctor Who is like any long-running series in that the cast tend to look to the star to set the general tone. Rehearsals and filming could be a lot of fun.
I think the greatest star in American at the moment is Kevin Costner.
I relate with military families and Gold Star families. Gold Star families are families where somebody didn’t come home. My father died in 1949. He was a flight instructor in the Army Air Corp.
The arrival of ‘Star Wars’ signalled the full absorption of the former counterculture into a new mainstream.
To me, the All-Star Game is just another step. I try to take all my experiences and put them together. To make the NBA was something, and then to be recognized as an All-Star – although I don’t consider myself a star. I see myself as just trying to reach my potential as B. J.
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Video games are so popular these days, getting the opportunity to star in one is something special. More people should do it.
The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars.
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.
I wanted to star in a western opposite Robert Redford. That was my plan for my life.
I always wanted to be a Vine star. I wasn’t, thank God.
I always thought I should be treated like a star.
I did my very first film with Kirk in Detective Story when he was the greatest, greatest star in the world. I fell in love with him, had a crush on him then.
I knew that Jamaica Inn was going to make me a star.
I didn’t care about being the ‘star.’ I just wanted to make a living and have a consistent career.
A star needs all the rest she can get.
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
You can’t assume anything in politics. That’s why every Saturday I walk around my district. I talk to the longshoremen in Charlestown. I listen to the people in East Boston and their concern on the airport noise. I walk down to the Star Market in Porter Square, and people tell me about meat prices.
I got to meet Mark Hamill. He signed some Star Wars posters for us. I saw the fight scenes he had. He was really into making fun of himself and Star Wars.
I’m waiting for them to come up with a ‘Star Trek’ thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.
When I was a kid, I loved Elvis, and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. But I had no connection to Hollywood – and being a movie star was such a far-fetched idea, growing up in Hawaii.
I cannot possibly conceive of my planet Earth as the centre of a three-tiered universe. I know rather that the sun, around which my planet Earth revolves, is a middle sized star in a galaxy called the Milky Way that has over a hundred billion other suns or stars within it.
There was my name up in lights. I said, ‘God, somebody’s made a mistake.’ But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, ‘Remember, you’re not a star.’ Yet there it was up in lights.
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place.
I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.
Most people I know think that I’m crazy – but anybody who actually knew Billy Thorpe didn’t think that. When I was a young kid growing up in Adelaide, he was a big pop star – a well-dressed, nice young guy seen on television every week. Mums liked him.
I’m always interested with other actors in what their process is, and are they still interested in acting, as opposed to being a star.
I really don’t consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I’ve never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.
A pop star’s career lasts 18 months.
We danced on the lip of the volcano, so to speak. We were young, too. And New York was still a big, open city where anything could happen and anyone could be star. Rents were cheap, creativity was encouraged, and bottle service was still 20 years away. That was the era the Club Kids came into.
The crest and crowning of all good, Life’s final star, is brotherhood.
The first exoplanet to be found around a sun-like star was discovered in 1995, just two years before I began studying exoplanet detection.
I’m not just a hip-hop artist; I feel like I’m a rock star.
I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.
Michael Caine is a movie star, but he’s also a great actor. I can’t say that about every movie star. It’s the concentration he has.
