Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body’s final fall, nor the barrels of death’s rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there’s just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
I know I have become a star, but I don’t want to believe it.
Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock’n’roll, politics as a movie.
I don’t always feel fierce and fearless, but I do feel like I’m a rock star at being human.
Reality show TV star is a familiar job, and to knock it would be the height of hypocrisy for someone like me who has made their career on television.
I’m enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences.
Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you’re a director. Everything after that you’re just negotiating your budget and your fee.
I always say that ‘Star Wars’ had a huge effect on me, too, but what ‘Star Wars’ did for some people, ‘Superman’ did for me.
If we’re going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation.
Star Theatre in Shyambazar makes up a big chapter in my life. I worked there for three years during my struggling days.
I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.
I can’t imagine anything more beautiful on this planet than looking up at the stars and seeing a kind of artificial star moving through the night sky.
I don’t want to be a ‘teen star’ because so many people don’t ever grow out of that.
Growing up, I really liked ‘Star Wars.’ Han Solo would’ve been really cool to meet. But my stuff was real low-brow. I was watching ‘Bugs Bunny.’
I had a very special family life. My mother and father made sure when we were home, we were part of the family, not a TV star. And the other thing: my father was fully employed while I was doing the series.
I was the star of the choir.
One thing about ‘Star Wars’ that I’m really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That’s why I like the ‘Star Wars’ toys.
Since I was 20, I wanted to make a short film and send it to international short film festivals. It never happened. I became too big a star to indulge in those things.
I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.
The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever played.
The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.
It’s always the great thing about being involved in such a legacy series such as ‘Star Trek’ is you’ll always want to know more about the characters that you love.
My stats don’t even need to be said, but I’ll say them anyway. I’m a 14-time champion. I’m a two-time Slammy award winner. I’ve done movies. I host my own show. How much more do you want in an athlete, in a star, than The Miz?
One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you’re a star you’re dead already. You’re embalmed.
The agency was desperate to get started with the commercials in 1976, but I was working on Star Wars.
I’m not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
I’ve loved Michael Jackson since the minute I was born. He’s probably the most talented person ever. He was able to create such an amazing career and be probably the biggest star we’ve ever had.
Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.
Americans just don’t know what being a movie star’s all about.
It was a lot of fun doing ‘Felicity.’ She had just won the Golden Globe, and she was huge at the time, but she was like the nicest girl ever. As a guest star on a show, you get on the set and you feel out of place, but she was so nice to me and really cool.
I might have a different understanding of the term ‘football star.’ If I shoot a few balls after training, it’s perfectly normal that I collect them afterwards.
Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
Our audience is all the girls who made Britney a huge star. Those are the girls who bought the book. I didn’t read the book at first. I read the script just to see what I would think of the script and I really liked it.
Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I’ve always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.
What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.
I love TV. I know all the theme songs from the shows I watch. I’m not one of those who’d rather be a movie star. I prefer TV because of the rushed way of working-on a movie set, you sit around and wait and wait to do a scene because they’re adjusting the lights.
As a young Maori actor, I don’t want to be seen as a child star; I want to be seen as a serious actor and an actor who can change the world.
When you’re a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you’re a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.
You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.
The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they’re renegotiating contracts.
I’m a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.
I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of an inter-connective spiritual force – like The Force in ‘Star Wars’ – where it doesn’t matter where you were raised, or what your background is, there are certain elements of story that totally appeal to you.
I never really thought I wanted to become a movie star.
I’m not a child star, but you could say that I’ve grown up on TV. I went from being an unknown, down-and-out comic from Brooklyn and the Bronx to being a regular character on a major network comedy called ‘Martin.’ From there I went on to become the most notable black comic on ‘Saturday Night Live’ since Eddie Murphy.
I always get compared to looking like a silent movie star – though I don’t know if that’s a compliment, honestly.
I can remember standing in the middle of the field after the race and seeing the American flag raised and hearing ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ and all the people singing it. Then I walked off the field and just kind of enjoyed the feeling.
I think, especially in pop culture, we’re brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.
If you’re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you’re a bigger moron than they are.
I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I’ve relied on that, versus image or star. I have just said, ‘Hire me if you want somebody good.’ I tried to be as good as I could be every time out, and that’s kind of bridged the decades.
It’s such a human condition, whether you’re a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors – someone knows who you are.
Look, I’m not odd. I’m just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.
Mastering the paradox of star brands is very difficult and rare – fortunately.
Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let’s suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that could support life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100 million planets that harbored life.
If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies – and I have a nice house, a nice car. I’m fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good.
If you’re doing something new you’ve got to have a vision. You’ve got to have a perspective. You’ve got to have some north star you’re aiming for, and you just believe somehow you’ll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point.
I’ve made the transition from star to character actor and I’m thoroughly enjoying it.
I think I’d be pretty star struck over John Mayer. I’m a big fan of his music, and I think he’s great.
My mom knew Salman sir, as they grew up together in Bandra. He would often tell my mother Genievev Advani how one day he would be a star. They have been friends for the longest time and would go cycling together.
I think every film actor secretly wants to be a rock star as well; just that part of the job which requires the extrovert in you. Even if you’ve become an actor because it’s your way of hiding in plain sight, there’s still part of you which has that craving.
‘Star Wars’ hasn’t changed my life at all.
