STARDOM QUOTES II

quotations about stardom

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You're not a movie star
It's harder now than yesterday,
As the lines begin to show

WISHBONE ASH

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Everyone seems to agree that the first and most vital quality for stardom is to want to be a performer more than anything else in the world. It may seem a bit trite, but it is true.

DIANNE NICHOLSON

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Stardom is the lack of ... substance, the possession only of image, reputation, notoriety, fame.

SIMON DIXON

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Remember that stardom is more than ability or will, although will is a large part of it.

HAROLD BRODKEY

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Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught on the crossfire of childhood and stardom,
Blown on the steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter,
Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!
You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.

PINK FLOYD

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True, long-term stardom is reserved only for the fortunate few who possess the rare combination of unique talent, artistic and business vision, single-minded drive, and a willingness to adapt and grow. That said, one must bear in mind that beyond the tangible and intangible factors that go into achieving legend status, an artist simply has to have an abundance of blind luck.

XAVIER M. FRASCOGNA, JR. & H. LEE HETHERINGTON

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Lipstick in hand
Tahitian tan
In her painted on jeans
She dreams of fame
She changed her name
To one that fits the movie screen
She's headed for the big time

MICHAEL JACKSON

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Stardom is a strategy of performance that is an adaptive response to the limits and pressures exerted upon acting in the mainstream cinema.

CHRISTINE GLEDHILL

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

JIM DALE

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Stardom is not a new phenomenon, we have appointed people as special for as long as human civilization has existed. Yet, the landscape is indeed changing. The dynamics that have changed other parts of society--technology, globalization, and social media--have also transformed the production of stardom and the ways in which individuals emerge as stars, whether self-appointed or publicly annointed. We are entering a whole new era of stardom, whereby entirely new types of people and aspects of society are producing our stars and their commodity forms. Some of these stars will come from our films, others from reality programmes, and still others from our Facebook pages and Twitter feeds. In all of these instances, we will exhibit the collective fascination with their banality and extraordinariness all at once.

ELIZABETH CURRID-HALKETT

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It hurts when people let you know
That you're not a movie star.

WISHBONE ASH

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He fell in love with the image of himself
and suddenly the picture was distorted
Even the greatest stars dislike themselves in the looking glass

KRAFTWERK

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Stardom bends our attention and thereby bends our sense of filmic space.

SIMON DIXON

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Film stardom is therefore never an individual, innate or inevitable effect. It requires the organized collective actions of multiple participants. Whatever aura of presence the star brings to the screen is largely due to the artful manipulation of film form. Once these factors are taken into consideration, it becomes impossible to accept stardom is natural or predestined. Instead, fundamentals to the symbolic commerce of stardom is the recognition that stardom is a product of industrialized cultural production, the outcome of multiple, highly organized, inputs and actions.

PAUL MCDONALD

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I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things. The more I meet other actors, the less the idea of the mythical movie star--an imaginary desire object who conforms to a certain ideal--makes sense to me at all. I think if people realize this when they read interviews, they might be less avid about them. It's sad that they get fooled into buying magazines and seeing films when so much of it is ... a sort of fabrication.

JULIE CHRISTIE

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Don't want to be common
Might want to feel stardom
Just want to be cared for
That's all, cool

THE WANNADIES

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Suppose every photo of me ever taken was an infinitesimal piece? Every magazine ad, every negative, every frame of motion picture film -- another tiny molecule of me, stolen away to feed an audience that is never satiated. And when someone is fully consumed -- vampirized -- they move on, still hungry, to pick their next victim by making him or her a star. That's why they're called consumers.

DAVID J. SCHOW

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Stardom is never that simple. If there's anything I've learned, it's that most stars think things just happen to them because they are talented or beautiful or just special. It's a childlike -- and childish -- view of the world and it keeps them from developing any sense of responsibility about their own lives. It's why publicists were invented.

HILARY DE VRIES

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The path from pop to screen stardom is strewn with the wreckage of a thousand broken dreams.

FIACHRA GIBBONS

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Sociologists note that stardom is socially constructed through an intangible cooperation between fans who assign an individual "supervalued" identity and performers who accept this externally produced self-definition.

MELTON ALONZA MCLAURIN

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