quotations about stardom
Stardom can be a gilded slavery--and to so many. Not only to the public, but to producers, investors, press, colleagues, madmen, tuft-hunters--and that cruelest master of all, one's own standards.
HELEN HAYES
On Reflection: An Autobiography
Stardom is becoming, superstardom is being.
ANONYMOUS
Ebony, 1979
Stardom today is very different than what it was years ago. Today your work defines you, and with every film, your stardom is double-checked.... You cannot be a star if you cannot bring the audience.
ARJUN KAPOOR
"Being Trolled is a sign of success, says Arjun Kapoor", Deccan Chronicle, July 18, 2017
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.
CHET ATKINS
attributed, If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People?
Stardom is no longer the fuel of my soul. It is the deeper aspects of life that nurture me. And I realise I am very blessed.
SHARON STONE
"The Irrepressible Sharon Stone is Stunning in Lovelace", PCM World News, August 2013
You feel like Steve McQueen
When you're driving in your car
And you think you look like James Bond
When you're smoking your cigar
It's so bizarre
You think you are
The new kind of James Dean
But the only thing I've ever seen of you
Was a commercial spot on the screen
HARPO
"Moviestar"
Movie star queen, a movie star queen
Can move me not.
Movie star queen, take off the paint, baby.
THE JACKSON 5
"Nobody"
Stardom has two general trajectories. First, stardom functions as part of the production process -- it is vital to representation, narrative, and marketing. Once produced, stardom is then consumed by audiences, located in particular, but mobile, sites of time and space. The two dimensions -- production and consumption -- thus work together to generate specific meanings of stardom.
STEPHEN HINERMAN
"Star Culture", Culture in the Communication Age