Be A Star Quotes

I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.
- Bryan Adams

Becoming an actress takes a lot longer than being a star. I don't want to be a star. I want to be an actress. I want to build a career.
- Carol Alt

I came to L.A. to work and become a better actress, not to be a star.
- Lauren Ambrose

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.
- Frank Sinatra

Every day I realized I would not be a star.
- William Shatner

I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore.
- Darren Aronofsky

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
- Jeanmichel Basquiat

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
- Jeanmichel Basquiat

For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can't all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life. That's where you set your goal.
- Sylvester Stallone

It's not just about waking up and trying to be a star... It's practice, practice, practice.
- Bo Bice

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
- Madeleine L Engle

A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.
- Madeleine L Engle

But, you know, you can't be a star at home.
- Jim Carrey

I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
- Sammy Davis Jr

Help me, Mikey, she wanted to say. I'm afraid. More afraid than you'd ever believe.' And he'd take her hand and they'd fly across the rooftops and up into space and sit on some planet and watch a double sunrise or maybe a star being born or some other event that no human had ever seen, her head on his shoulder, his arm around her. And she'd tell him everything.
- Jenny Downham

The two girls disappeared into the stern cabin once more. Will watched them go, then asked Halt, 'Anything you'd like me to do? Grow a beard? Learn to walk like a rooster?'
'If you could stop asking facetious questions, that'd be a start,' Halt told him. 'But it's probably a little late in life for you to do that.
- John Flanagan

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.
- Lady Gaga

The Lord of Winterfell would always be a Stark
- George R R Martin

I appreciate the idea that anybody would think of me as a star. But I'm really not career oriented in the sense that I want to be a star. It's not in me. It's not what I do. In fact, I'm amazed that I've even gotten this far.
- Lance Henriksen

I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work.
- Gregory Hines

You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.
- Marilyn Horne

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.
- John Hurt

I didn't come to New York to be a star, I brought my star with me.
- Reggie Jackson

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.
- Elton John

My goal all along has just been to work and support myself. I've been really lucky to walk away from the 'Twilight' series unscathed. Somebody asked me recently what it's like to be a star. I thought that was the strangest question. If you saw my day-to-day life, the word 'star' just doesn't apply.
- Anna Kendrick

There was a time in our very recent history when it was "interesting" to be a Star Wars fan. It was sort of like admitting you masturbate twice a day or that your favorite band was They Might Be Giants. Star Wars was something everyone of a certain age secretly loved but never openly recognized
- Chuck Klosterman

And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.
- Olga Korbut

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

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

You have to be a star to be in this business.
- Jenifer Lewis

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

If you want to be a star, don't bother doing it because it ends up being very empty.
- Judith Light

Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera.
- Karl Malone

I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
- Olivier Martinez

I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act.
- Paul Muni

I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.
- John Otway

In order to be a star performer you have to have someone to play against.
- Frank Oz

I want to be a starter again, I would really enjoy playing for the Phillies again, but my first consideration in making my decision is finding a circumstance that is right for me. I want to play for the Phillies again, but I also wouldn't mind joining a team I've never played with before.
- Chan Ho Park

Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.
- Edith Piaf

As far as my street cred goes, I'll always have that, because I always hang with the kids. I'll jump right off the stage and buy them a beer. I'll be a star on stage, but I'll always hang with the kids.
- Kid Rock

And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.
- Nolan Ryan

I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
- Barbra Streisand

The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
- Hank Sauer

I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.
- Ally Sheedy

I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - 'I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!'
- Alexander Skarsgard

Nobody teaches you to be a father. Nobody teaches you to be a husband. Nobody teaches you how to be a star. You have to learn to work with the tools.
- David Soul

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

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.
- Amber Tamblyn

I'm going to be a star some day," she announced as though daring him to contradict her.
"I'm sure you..."
"It's my life. It's the only thing in the whole world that I want."
"It's good to know what you want. I used to be a bookkeeper in a hotel,
but..."
"If I'm not, I'll commit suicide.
- Nathanael West

I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less.
- Meg Whitman

Everybody these days wants to be a star, including myself. Don't get me wrong, I'm a chef but you want to market yourself and your projects.
- Geoffrey Zakarian