Quotes About Stardom

I think the reason you use an actor is if they are right for the role. Most of the high-profile stars tend to be good actors. That's probably what led to their fame. So if they are right for the movie, you can certainly use them. But I don't want to, not at all. Stardom and Hollywood overpower the ideas and the film.

I'm glad Metro Station didn't turn out like Jonas Brothers. They need a Disney movie to become famous. Our songs overpower that.

Women follow me around. On a British Airways flight, at Liverpool station - everywhere.

Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.

It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging.

I was never after celebrity status.

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

The hard part of being a celebrity is staying one!

If you pay close attention, you'll notice we continually hear about basically the same 150 celebrities.

If you notice, no child star made it big when s/he grew up because the child's image was still fresh in people's memory. They could not digest the fact that the child star had grown into a man.

People have a wrong notion that film stars don't make good politicians. I must tell those who address stars with derogatory comments that people like us work for the betterment of their constituency with heart and soul.

Whether you like it or not, you're a national figure after five games at Notre Dame.

Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting.

It's not at all my objective to become an Asian-American star.

Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

I don't want to be a movie star like Angelina Jolie. Nothing about being a celebrity is desirable. I'm an actor. It's bizarre to me that everybody's so obsessive.

Fame in itself is, you know... It involves a whole discussion on just that word, 'fame.' It's a power; it's another degree of power, to be famous. I think it's obvious: you have more influence the more well-known you are. And, hopefully, it's righteously used.

I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.

There are too many stars and too few actors.

Actually, being a hero is not easy. You have to dance around trees, not to mention all the odd and unnatural things you have to do.

When you walk on the road and people scream out your name, the high is unparalleled.

You become so encapsulated in this world of being a star. People listen to what you say, you have this voice, it becomes unreal and you become far removed from the people you came from.

You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.