Quotes About Stardom

When you hear Bollywood, you think about everything mainstream, song-and-dance, hero-heroine. I don't think that will ever go away.

Am I the only one who exposes? Just because I don't have a godfather, or I'm not a star kid, I'm told that I expose. I don't care.

We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.

There was a time when I was called the wizard of the box-office.

I woke up famous for about a minute, then stopped being famous again.

West Orange, where I grew up, is the hometown of Ian Ziering from 'Beverly Hills, 90210,' Scott Wolf from 'Party of Five,' David Cassidy from the 'Partridge Family,' and Mike Pitt of 'Boardwalk Empire' and 'Dawson's Creek.'

Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.

I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.

What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats... or skinny.

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.

I would walk down the street and people would scream from their cars at me and, generally, I'd turn around and it's a 13-year-old girl. And it's funny because that is the audience that I think big studios are always trying to target.

When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.

It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.

He liked to collect celebrities.

Fame is just popularity on a higher level.

Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.

What I'd really like to say about stardom is it gave me everything i never wanted.

Most of the time, you do films and they can be big films, but you are rarely aware of the fan base that comes with it.

There are many good-looking actors.

I'm not good-looking enough, and I don't have the personality it takes to play myself like the big box-office stars.

I was never that kind of star. I was never cast because I was gorgeous.

The word 'gratitude' is not part of the Hollywood dictionary.

If I had been on 'Ally McBeal,' I would have been seen coming out of the shower on the first show.

Elvis wore a halo. Otis Redding did, too. You knew you were playing with a star when you played with them.