Quotes About Stardom

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.

From 2016 through 2020, the easiest way to achieve stardom on the political left was to loudly proclaim your belief that 2016 was an illegitimate election stolen by the Russians on behalf of a corrupt traitor.

I want to follow in RuPaul's footsteps, which is that combination of not just personal stardom but to really transform myself into a producer of drag. That's the way to make a lasting impact on the world of drag and... to make actual differences in the queer community. I think there's no better model for that than RuPaul.

I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while.

I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.

The American Film Institute ranked him as the Greatest Male Star in cinema history. The honors were only beginning. In 1997 Entertainment Weekly designated Humphrey the Number One Movie Legend of all time. That year the United States Postal Service issued a stamp bearing his liken

I love being famous - it's phenomenal.

And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.

It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous.

Celebrity is intoxicating.

All the good modern parts go to Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant.

I'm going to be big like Michael Jackson.

I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.

I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.

The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.

We're into Nicole Kidmans, rather than the young girl who just got married in a tracksuit.

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.

When I did 'Parent Trap,' I was ten. I was thrown off by the whole fame thing.

Sure we're in limos. We're stars. How else is a star supposed to travel?

The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.

It's difficult, because when you're a popular singer who makes money, you're basically a race horse. And that's how you're treated by the people around you.

After Star Trek, I was with the top agencies, but producers and directors did not know what to do with me.