Quotes About Stardom

Daniel Radcliffe

Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle.

Celebrities?" "They're the famous people of this world. They're mostly actors, singers, musicians. 'Stars,' we call them. Like... instead of the stars we look up to in the sky, they're the people we look up to.

Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.

I don't feel like a celebrity. I did not sign 'Udta Punjab' to increase my fan following.

If I was offered a Salman Khan or a Shah Rukh Khan film, I would have signed it. No one says no to that.

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.

You can become famous but you can't become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.

I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.

It doesn't matter if you're famous or infamous. All that matters is you're a celebrity.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

I can't walk down the street anywhere in the world without being stopped. It can be an interruption, but on the whole, it's flattering.

Those women, her age and a little older, who'd all gone crazy or who were hooking in the Polo Lounge or who were married to real old movie stars and had to look old too, to match. Those occasional men of genius who, like one friend of hers, could cast the right person for the right part and never miss—never.

Elvis's fame happened to him—not entirely unbidden, but in proportions he had not imagined or sought. He was a dreamer, aspiring to stardom. He wanted to be big.

In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

I am not against kissing on-screen but I definitely do not want to be written about for the number of kisses I have had on screen.

I am not saying that those who crave for conventional stardom are wrong in their aspirations. But that's not what I want.

I think the way WWE Studios is going now - they're going away from action, doing more drama, more comedy - it will open a lot of people's eyes. Because a lot of people see big guy, big frame: action superstar. We've proven, especially with 'Legendary,' that that is not always the case.

Do I think it's great that we have a celebrity system where some people matter and some people don't? No. But do I think we'll always create icons and legends? Yeah, I probably do.

Yeah, people following me down the street and at the airport and all that. I can't imagine what it must be like for people who are, you know, actually famous.

Every year, Hollywood is looking for that new, white leading man and new white starlet that audiences fall in love with. But they're not looking for the next Denzel Washington, Will Smith or Sidney Poitier.

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.

M-G-M knew how to build stars. We used to do constant publicity stills. You were the Easter bunny one time and a Christmas tree the next. When I went to Japan, they knew who I was. Now you have a great actress and a year later, they ask, 'What happened to her?'