13 quotes about Stardom



There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
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You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.
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No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
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God makes stars. I just produce them.
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Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.
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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.
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You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.
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Being at the center of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence -- the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
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It's nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I'm bloody close.
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I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
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The stars are the apexes of what triangles!
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Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man -- and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is bad.
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