I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this – a movie star will say, ‘How can I change the script to suit me?’ and a movie actor will say. ‘How can I change me to suit the script?’
I’m not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.
In the juniors, you are kind of a star, but just because you are a good junior doesn’t mean you will be a good pro.
The integral part of being a star is having the will to win. All the champions have it.
There’s a stigma about reality shows and the people who star in them. Reality shows mean your career will end, your marriage will be cursed, you have to fight and/or throw a drink, or you’re going to end up broke and a has-been when the series ends.
I used to think that success was being the number one, being everywhere, being the star, and nowadays, I think that success is to make big things happen.
I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.
The goal wasn’t to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about – the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
You never start out being a star.
If you were brought up in the ’40s, a kid in Ossining, New York, hanging out at the poolroom and stealing, how can you think, ‘Here I am in Ossining. I, too, can be a movie star!’
The criteria, for me, is movie star. It’s Hollywood. Not Somalia.
Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you’re not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever.
Doing Shakespeare once is not fair to the play. I have been in Shakespeare plays when it’s not until the last two or three performances when I even understand certain things. In the old days star actors would travel the world doing the same parts over and over again.
A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult.
I’d have a sex scene with Whoopi Goldberg or Star Jones.
I love the fact that it’s not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.
Unless you’re a star in this town, you’re really nothing.
As an actor with a star status, I can’t restrict myself to one type of films and roles.
What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a little dot of light through a telescope, because we can calculate what the atoms in the stars should do in most circumstances.
Like, you think, ‘Oh, it’s ‘Star Wars,’ everybody has a spaceship’ – but no, actually, in the ‘Star Wars’ universe, having a ship is like having a yacht.
I never really told my parents that I wanted to be a pop star or anything. They just knew that I was totally obsessed with music. Funnily enough, my father always used to say that he didn’t think I could sing.
Early in my life, without any supporting evidence, I fretted over what I believed was my fate: accidentally becoming an international pop star. The pages of my diary were filled with hypothetical ethical dilemmas.
The story seems to be that almost every star has a planetary system… and, also, the definition of ‘habitable zone’ has expanded. In our system, it used to be that only Mars and Earth were potentially habitable. Now we’ve got an ocean on Europa… Titan.
All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.
You can be known or be a star from anywhere – anywhere in the world.
I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.
I didn’t get into entertainment until I was like 31. I didn’t star in a movie until I was 46.
I want to be remembered as a star.
You can’t compete with hip-hop. That doesn’t mean I don’t want to be as big as a rap star. I do – I’m always competitive. But there’s this weird perception of me as someone who’s sitting around plotting like a devil. It’s not like that.
In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that’s kind of natural for anyone who’s just embraced Islam – or any religion – as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I’d been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.
It makes me forget that I’m not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future.
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
There’s a very specific thing you can do to get in magazines. I’m much happier to just show up and do the job. I haven’t taken the active approach to making myself a star. I haven’t been in a blockbuster.
We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star.
I think anybody with any intelligence sits down and sees Star Trek not a kids’ show.
I lead two totally separate lives. There are times when I have to slip into rock star mode.
Operation Northern Star with Canada has made significant progress in battling meth from the north, and we are engaged in numerous training opportunities in Mexico to help curb the problem from the south.
I never liked being called the young rebel star.
If you want to be a star, don’t bother doing it because it ends up being very empty.
Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.
Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.
Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.
You don’t have to be a rock star – if you don’t like the situation you’re in, you don’t have to settle for it.
The point is not to take the world’s opinion as a guiding star but to go one’s way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
I never got into this business thinking I’d be like a movie star.
Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.
I’m an instant star. Just add water and stir.
I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series.
I have always been a fan of ‘Star Trek.’ I love Gene Roddenberry’s vision of the future.
A nice pop star would do you nice on one of those deserted islands.
Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.
Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon’s verge.
Achilles was like a rock star of his day so it made sense to have Brad Pitt playing him.
We live in a modest system, a galaxy called the Milky Way. If we named every star in the Milky Way and put them in the Hollywood telephone directory and stacked those telephone directories up, we’d have a pile of telephone directories 70 miles high.
Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star.
Why am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.
Anything that I love, I love to the extreme. I’m obsessive. If it’s ‘Star Wars,’ if it’s ‘Transformers,’ if it’s the Flyers, I geek out.
I’m not an actor, I’m a movie star.
‘Star Trek’ seems to be an appeal to our better nature, the side of ourselves that works toward peace and cooperation and understanding and knowledge and yearns to seek out knowledge rather than the side that wants to divide and control one another.
Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven’s dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
I came into the industry as an actor. And moved on to become a star with the help of my dancing skills.
Woody Allen has a wonderful line: ‘Today I’m a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?’ That’s very important to know – that you have the moment, then you lose the moment. You have to see your chances, you have to take them, and you also have to see when you don’t have chances to take.
I don’t know if I want to be a big star though.
When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn’t really know what all that meant. I didn’t know.
Well, you know, ‘Spaceballs’ is a weird combination, because it’s a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it’s crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, ‘Star Wars’, and ‘Star Trek’.
Cannes or Oscars is not only to bring happiness and recognition – they protect people like me. The world knows who you are. You can work. You can express. You can help other people. It’s not only the star system. It’s a symbol of freedom.
