Quotes About Stardom

I didn't come up in a culture or society that looked on me as a movie star. I was the bad guy. I was fortunate enough to be cast in some roles that weren't bad, were positive.

I'm not really enamored by movie stars.

Working with Zhao Wei and Huang Xiaoming, they're not just Chinese stars, they're movie stars.

Let me be honest - I might do a franchise film like 'Golmaal' if it comes my way. Eventually, we are all in Mumbai to become bigger stars, not better actors.

When your name is on the marquee, you either get the glory or you get the hits.

There is no such thing as notoriety in the United States these days, let alone infamy. Celebrity is all.

I don't like the idea of famous people.

I still feel very uncomfortable with the term 'celebrity' because I don't see myself as one.

I was a star before I got more than $250 a week. Carole Lombard advised me how to get a raise. She said: 'Go to Palm Springs and stay there until they raise the ante.' They were waiting to start a picture with me and I was scared they'd forget me for someone else, but they came after me.

Today, you're either very big or you're playing stadiums or you're not playing anymore. You're either popular where everybody will go to a 20,000 seat arena to see you or they won't go to see you at all.

There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.

As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say the name Catherine Deneuve or Brigitte Bardot, or L.A. and the name Marilyn Monroe, it's like standing in Athens, or anywhere in wide-flung Greece, and saying Aliki Vougiouklaki. A huge star - and so little known elsewhere in the world.

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.

Press agent - a man who hitches his braggin' to a star.

I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.

If professional wrestling did not exist, could you come up with this idea? Could you envision the popularity of huge men in tiny bathing suits, pretending to fight?

Diva has a negative connotation.

She was a Bond girl; she couldn't have been in nerdy.

Fame is morally neutral.

Winning takes you to that next level of being a bigger star.

You know, even big-time academics kind of have groupies. Anyone with any sort of fame. So, like, in your micro-world, or in your niche, you're kind of like a celebrity.

In '39, they had no problem with it. But today, there's a huge issue with a movie that has no male movie stars.

I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't understand why this is happening to me.' There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn't some magical thing that just started happening.

CELEBRITY. One who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.