Star Quotes

Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.

I have friends who wear Star Wars costumes and act like the characters all day. I may not be that deep into it, but there's something great about loving what you love and not caring if it's unpopular.

I think I am a star - I'm simply a funny-shaped star.

Unless you're a star in this town, you're really nothing.

I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives.

What they told us about 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' when we first started was that we were guaranteed 26 episodes, so that was the longest job I've ever had. And that was basically it - we didn't know what the premise of the show was going to be and we waited, week by week, to see a script.

The formula is the star. I couldn't work inside that formula.

When I was involved with 'Star Wars,' I was very interested in all the backstories, and I used to pepper George with all kinds of questions about anything that crossed my mind, because I was very, very into it. But when the job came to an end, I had to move on.

I wanted to be a rich, famous rock-and-roll star in that order.

Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.

In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.

The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars.

I think a lot of people, if they get the opportunity to do some acting, they think, 'I might be a star.'

I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.

I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.

Which is good, in a way, because the danger in doing something like STAR TREK is that you end up in that pigeonhole and you're doing that the rest of your life.

It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.

Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.

People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite.

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals.

I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.

I was the star of the choir.

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.

I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind.