Top 100 Quotes About Stardom
#1. I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it's a lot of work. It's work to be a star. I don't enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.
Barbra Streisand
#2. People want stardom or fame or whatever - instant gratification as opposed to learning one's craft, which, when I was starting out, was the most important thing: that you are as fully equipped for your job or your art as possible.
Joshua Sasse
#3. Don't be so obsessed with stardom that you miss out on success
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#4. I always wanted to make strangers and friends and family laugh. I was over ten years younger than my brothers. It was hard to get attention without some kind of gimmick, like athletic stardom or being funny.
Gary Gulman
#5. I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things.
Julie Christie
#6. Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
Kate Bosworth
#7. The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.
Jessica Savitch
#8. 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.
Shah Rukh Khan
#9. Stardom equals financial success and financial success equals security. I've spent too much of my life feeling insecure. I still have nightmares about being poor, of everything I own just vanishing away. Stardom means that can't happen.
Steve McQueen
#10. What is a star? Is stardom a kind of suspended adulthood? Is it a place beyond good and evil? Is a star a person you need to believe in--a daredevil, a risk-taker, a person who goes close to the edge without falling?
Kim Gordon
#11. Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
Salman Khan
#12. I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
Tallulah Bankhead
#13. I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while.
Randeep Hooda
#15. It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
Bela Lugosi
#16. There are people who fly to the height of stardom in a single day, and then there are people like me. I used to have this ridiculous idea that I absolutely had to be a big, big movie star. Now all I'm after is happiness.
Teri Polo
#17. I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.
LeBron James
#18. I had no plans to be a writer. My teenaged bid for stardom was to be a pop star ... which, ahem, didn't exactly work out.
Sophie Kinsella
#19. I never had any real security in my life until I found the false security of stardom.
Robert Donat
#20. I would love to be like Justin Bieber or Selena Gomez. They were catapulted into stardom when they were so young - like I was - and they still haven't gone down the wrong path and I hope neither or them will. I find that really inspiring.
Rebecca Black
#21. I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.
A.R. Rahman
#22. If you're a young actor, unless you're on a very short list at the studios, we have to be very creative about moving your career along. Otherwise, all we can do is hope to get lucky and find that perfect role that pops you into stardom.
Patrick Whitesell
#23. My goal has always been to make a living and to have the respect of my peers. It's never been about stardom. It's about a good and challenging part.
Celia Weston
#24. I like being very busy. I think that's the definition of stardom, really. It's energy. It really is.
Faye Dunaway
#25. I want to become actor not because I want money and become more famous. No I don't want that. It is not that l want stardom, I want to contribute to good cinema.
Terence Lewis
#26. Super-stardom doesn't scare or excite me. It's just another ingredient added to my world.
Aeriel Miranda
#27. 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.
Chris Isaak
#28. Joseph went from prison to prime minister from trials to triumph, from scar-weary to stardom
Ikechukwu Joseph
#29. What I'd really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.
Ava Gardner
#30. I really want to do good work. I really do. My priority isn't stardom.
Michelle Monaghan
#31. I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.
Brenda Blethyn
#32. I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.
Patti Smith
#33. I never liked stardom. It's weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
Barbra Streisand
#34. Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.
Clint Eastwood
#35. To be honest, unless you rocket straight to stardom as a gorgeous young vampire, you can spend a lot of time working behind a bar.
Adam Rayner
#36. You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.
Gary Sinise
#37. As a young girl, I used to dream of giving an interview. You dream of stardom as a kid. People think they don't want to be stars. Everyone wants to be a star! That's the truth. Even grownups; they pretend they don't want to be one and don't care. But everyone wants to.
Sania Mirza
#38. 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.
Jane Asher
#39. I don't want this big stardom thing. I just want a good script.
Annette O'Toole
#40. The key ingredient to stardom is the team.
John Wooden
#41. 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.
Paul Weller
#42. You can sit around and have a broken heart any old time. Rock stardom happens only once in a lifetime.
Jen Sincero
#43. As for super-stardom, I can say that I'm ready for anything. I feel like I've mastered so many stages in my life and the cool thing is, I don't see that energy changing anything.
Aeriel Miranda
#44. 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.
Rhea Perlman
#45. I've been in training for stardom.
Bernie Mac
#46. We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition.
Jay Hernandez
#47. Stardom can be very destructive - particularly if you believe in it.
Shelley Winters
#48. In the 1930s, all the novelists had seemed to be people who came blazing up into stardom from out of total obscurity. That seemed to be the nature of the beast. The biographical notes on the dustjackets of the novels were terrific.
Tom Wolfe
#49. In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.
Courtney Love
#50. 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.
Sharon Stone
#51. Stardom happens - you can't plan it - it's destiny, and you shouldn't stand between you and your destiny. I'm letting my destiny play its part, and I go by my gut feeling. If I like my role, I say yes; if I don't, I just refuse, as simple as that.
Randeep Hooda
#52. Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'
Ani DiFranco
#54. Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with.
Sean Penn
#55. On Michael Jackson and child stardom: He had one of the worst childhoods ever. I think I had the second.
Elizabeth Taylor
#56. It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.
Natalie Cole
#57. No, I never thought of it in those terms. I used to go into agents' offices and they'd have pictures of these handsome movie men and I knew I'd never be up there. I'm a journeyman actor. I didn't think about stardom.
Eli Wallach
#58. What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career or cabaret stardom relegated some poor yearning dope to a lavender ghetto of losers, self-deluders, and social rejects.
James Wolcott
#59. Ah, stardom! They put your name on a star in the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard and you walk down and find a pile of dog manure on it. That tells the whole story, baby.
Lee Marvin
#60. There's an argument that celebrities stop growing mentally the moment they reach stardom and then they just - everything goes away. I think that's true.
Greg Gutfeld
#61. My friends have always told me that rock stardom was wasted on me.
Melissa Etheridge
#62. It would be disrespectful to take my stardom and bully my way into the fashion industry.
ASAP Rocky
#63. I never did anything about my stardom, it never meant anything to me.
Tom Courtenay
#64. 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.
Chet Atkins
#65. I was 13 - 14 when I first tasted stardom. In the summer holidays, my dad made me act in these films that went on to become superhits. I became a child star.
Mahesh Babu
#66. To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
Hedy Lamarr
#67. People have such false perceptions of how stardom really works.
Marcia Gay Harden
#68. Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.
Francesca Annis
#69. You're never quite prepared for the inundation of stardom, or whatever you want to call it.
Al Jourgensen
#70. Stardom is just an uneasy seat on top of a tricky toboggan. Being a star is merely perching at the head of the downgrade. A competent featured player can last a lifetime. A star, a year or two. There's all that agony of finding suitable stories, keeping in character, maintaining illusion.
Fredric March
#71. Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!
Kip Winger
#72. The kids like to get pictures of me for their parents. They know how proud I am of them-they have a lot more to worry about than my stardom. They are trying to make good choices for their own lives, but this gives them a little fun. They are part of my family.
Mark Goddard
#73. Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
Natalie Wood
#74. I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
Rachael Taylor
#75. There is a lot of struggle in being an actor; you need so much emotional strength, no matter what level of stardom you have, that it's nice to have something steady.
Sanaa Lathan
#76. In Italy it's full-on stardom when you're a cyclist - eating in restaurants for free, it's great.
David Millar
#77. The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse.
Anthony Burgess
#78. In our lifetime those who kill the newsworld hands them stardom and these are the ways on which I was raised. - Morrissey, The Last of the Famous International Playboys
Maureen Johnson
#79. It's a crazy world, stardom. I don't even think of myself as a star. I just like to go to work.
Taissa Farmiga
#80. In the world of pop stardom, what is mistaken for rebellion? A mediocre artist who spouts political beliefs that most freshmen in high school could have come up with after huffing Glade.
Greg Gutfeld
#81. You really have to love the work. You can't look for stardom. That's a by-product.
Donna Mills
#82. No one smiled at me, or looked at me twice; shopping has become my time of reckoning; I will never be able to purchase the stardom I have lost.
Sandie Shaw
#84. Draw your own moral from this, Sparky. And remember at the center of the cult of personality called stardom there is just a big empty hole. Awards don't matter. Acclaim doesn't matter. Only your craft matters.
John Varley
#85. 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.
Nicolas Cage
#86. It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging.
Shirley Manson
#87. Every artist that becomes famous has a team, and needs to convince someone to believe in them enough to have others rally around them to achieve stardom. If I can be that person, then I am happy to do it.
Wendy Starland
#90. That's how you deal with stardom; you make it the least important part of your life.
John Lithgow
#91. I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.
Morgan Freeman
#92. My only stake was the hook I shot in the moon, trying to capture stardom on my way to heaven. Without bravado. Just footsteps plodding me along till my big show. My showstopper. The one where I landed in a place without gravity.
Juliet Castle
#93. When you look at sort of pop stardom now, some of these singers, it seems like the idea of them was created in a marketing meeting, and then they just found someone to sort of fulfill that role.
John Lloyd Young
#94. What seemed to make Benoit and Guerrero great was the fact that they weren't given an easy path to stardom. They were both hired by WCW when, during the Monday Night Wars, WCW expanded its flagship show to three hours and needed talent to fill the time.
David Shoemaker
#95. What really matters is your movies and how good a person you are. Otherwise, tabloids and news channels writing about you only builds your curiosity and stardom and propels you to reach wider places.
Ranbir Kapoor
#96. I'm definitely happy with the progression of my career. I'm glad I didn't jump to stardom immediately, because I get to enjoy the ride and the chase. Because nothing came easy, I really appreciate it when I book roles.
Brittany Curran
#97. It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than Sven Goran Eriksson.
Gordon Strachan
#98. Authentic stardom ... is a gift which, if it is to have any permanent significance, must be bestowed by a public rather than a manager.
Katharine Cornell
#99. The name Derek Jeter is made for stardom. He's got an infectious smile, and he's so handsome and well-behaved. He's just a fine young man who does everything right. He's like Jack Armstrong and Frank Merriwell, guys I grew up rooting for. Some guys come along who just measure up.
George Steinbrenner
#100. Nobody put the camera on the background singers who were singing. It was on Stevie Wonder. It was on Elton John. It was on whoever was the lead singer out front. We were 20 feet from stardom.
Darlene Love
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