Star Quotes

I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

Doing a series, every week you work with a new star.

I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist.

You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don't have that. I'm a banana.

Maybe I should have taken a few chances. That's not to say I want to go make 'Star Wars,' but I need to shift my career into the studio world. That's where my head was at when I thought of the original plot.

Some people burn out, and some people like Clint Eastwood, he was a wild, international movie star in his 30s, and he's doing the best work of his life now. Go figure.

There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock 'n' roll star.

If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.

Warren Beatty has always acted like a Movie Star even when no one knew who he was.

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.

I'm not real impressed with the Star Trek weaponry, I gotta be honest.

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

I think I had only been working nine months when I got 'Star Trek,' and it was huge. It was very overwhelming. So that opened my eyes a bit at an early age, kind of how not be frightened when walking into a responsibility of something like that.

I needed to become something besides the star everybody had built me up to be.

Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look.

Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.

Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information.

I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

If you just want to be a star, go away.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star.

It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.

Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later.

I wasn't a 'Star Trek' fan, yet I knew who all the characters were. that goes to show what an impact the show had not just in entertainment but in life. I knew who Chekhov was and I knew who Kirk and Spock were, although I probably had never seen the show.

I think Hispanic women are beautiful with their curves. I'm not sure who feels that way in Hollywood. I was never told to lose 50 pounds. If they think that they just don't bother with you. You just don't get the role and you never know why. That's still better than physically harming yourself and becoming unhealthy just to star in a movie.

The thing about 'Star Trek' is that it is not judgmental. You can do what ever you want, within reason.

I don't think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old. I would have been the last person to stand up and say, 'I'd like to star in the play.'