Stardom Quotes

Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

As I got older, with my work, I became aware of the responsibility of film, and I feel one of the best ways I can apply myself as an actor, is to go beyond movie stardom and celebrity.

I don't want this big stardom thing. I just want a good script.

Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

I really don't have that much interest in stardom.

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.

Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.

Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself, I always take a trip to the U.S. The immigration guys kick the star out of my stardom.

I have the stardom glow.

The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.

I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.

You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.

In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.

I never did anything about my stardom, it never meant anything to me.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things.

In the long run, there are people who've made more money or had bigger stardom at points. But, I think I'll have come out winning.

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.

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

You really have to love the work. You can't look for stardom. That's a by-product.

In Italy it's full-on stardom when you're a cyclist - eating in restaurants for free, it's great.

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.

The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.

There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom,' only talent can keep you at the top.

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.

Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.