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  • Stardom can be a gilded slavery. -- Helen Hayes
  • Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident. -- Lauren Bacall
  • I have the stardom glow. -- Jennifer Lopez
  • The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team. -- John Wooden
  • I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do. -- LeBron James
  • Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing. -- Natalie Wood
  • 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
  • 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. -- Tallulah Bankhead
  • I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right. -- A. R. Rahman
  • 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. -- Morgan Freeman
  • The stars are the apexes of what triangles! -- Henry David Thoreau
  • I really don't have that much interest in stardom. -- Tom Verlaine
  • I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom. -- Brenda Blethyn
  • I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture. -- Christine Baranski
  • I never did anything about my stardom, it never meant anything to me. -- Tom Courtenay
  • It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom. -- Bela Lugosi
  • You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom. -- Gary Sinise
  • The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me. -- Jessica Savitch
  • 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
  • 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
  • We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition. -- Jay Hernandez
  • 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. -- Matt Damon
  • Ah, stardom! They put your name on a star in the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard and you walk down and find a pile of dog manure on it. That tells the whole story, baby. -- Lee Marvin
  • No, I never thought of it in those terms. I used to go into agents' offices and they'd have pictures of these handsome movie men and I knew I'd never be up there. I'm a journeyman actor. I didn't think about stardom. -- Eli Wallach
  • Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man -- and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad. -- Frank Zappa
  • Stardom can be a gilded slavery." -- Helen Hayes
  • Stardom equals freedom. It's the only equation that matters. -- Steve McQueen
  • Stardom can be very destructive - particularly if you believe in it. -- Shelley Winters
  • There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom,' only talent can keep you at the top. -- Jim Dale
  • Stardom is like making love in a hammock - a happy experience but one of uncertain duration. -- David Niven
  • I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while. -- Randeep Hooda
  • Stardom equals financial success and financial success equals security. I've spent too much of my life feeling insecure. I still have nightmares about being poor, of everything I own just vanishing away. Stardom means that can't happen. -- Steve McQueen
  • I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination. -- Ranbir Kapoor
  • I don't really want people to see me. I'm not into stardom. -- David Suchet
  • Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom. -- Salman Khan
  • Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people. -- Clint Eastwood
  • Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave. -- Kate Bosworth
  • It's a crazy world, stardom. I don't even think of myself as a star. I just like to go to work. -- Taissa Farmiga
  • I don't like the trappings of stardom. I wear the shoes and the Dolce & Gabbana, because I'm told to. But I'm not trapped by it. -- Shah Rukh Khan
  • 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. -- Shah Rukh Khan
  • Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything. -- Donny Osmond
  • 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. -- Nicolas Cage
  • I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it's a lot of work. It's work to be a star. I don't enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process. -- Barbra Streisand
  • In my lifetime, I've discovered a great many incredibly talented individuals. Some have achieved stardom. Simultaneously, I've seen many dreams shattered, egos destroyed and lives changed forever. The end destination may well be fame and fortune, but the road to stardom is littered with broken hearts. -- Nigel Lythgoe
  • I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing. -- Yolanda Adams
  • 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.' -- Ani DiFranco
  • To handle that stardom, the red carpets, the photo shoots, people all of a sudden recognizing you and following you in everyday life, it's a bit weird. It's strange, and it can have funny effects on you in terms of do you like it or don't you like it. Some people run away from it, some people embrace it; I found a good middle ground. -- Roger Federer
  • I have no hang-ups in life. I don't care about groups and camps. I have been brought up with certain values and ethics. I have never been egoistic about my stardom and lineage. I don't have any qualms about breaking the ice with my colleagues. I can walk up to any actor and greet him, irrespective of what kind of equation I share with him. -- Abhishek Bachchan
  • Like beauty, stardom too is skin-deep. -- Shah Rukh Khan
  • I've been in training for stardom. -- Bernie Mac
  • People have such false perceptions of how stardom really works. -- Marcia Gay Harden
  • Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders. -- Francesca Annis
  • In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction. -- Courtney Love
  • Who needs sports stardom when you can shoot fireballs from your fingertips? -- Ethan Gilsdorf
  • Don't be so obsessed with stardom that you miss out on success -- Rasheed Ogunlaru
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  • I think the public will judge if stardom has gotten into my head. -- Majid Michel
  • My friends have always told me that rock stardom was wasted on me. -- Melissa Etheridge
  • I really want to do good work. I really do. My priority isn't stardom. -- Michelle Monaghan
  • Super-stardom doesn't scare or excite me. It's just another ingredient added to my world. -- Aeriel Miranda
  • You really have to love the work. You can't look for stardom. That's a by-product. -- Donna Mills
  • It would be disrespectful to take my stardom and bully my way into the fashion industry. -- ASAP Rocky
  • You're never quite prepared for the inundation of stardom, or whatever you want to call it. -- Al Jourgensen
  • That's how you deal with stardom; you make it the least important part of your life. -- John Lithgow
  • Rock stardom will die because nobody will make enough money any more to be rock stars. -- Noel Gallagher
  • I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things. -- Julie Christie
  • What I'd really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted. -- Ava Gardner
  • I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity. -- Bill Veeck
  • I never had any real security in my life until I found the false security of stardom. -- Robert Donat
  • In Italy it's full-on stardom when you're a cyclist - eating in restaurants for free, it's great. -- David Millar
  • I like being very busy. I think that's the definition of stardom, really. It's energy. It really is. -- Faye Dunaway
  • I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award. -- Rachael Taylor
  • The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that. -- Leif Garrett
  • I never liked stardom. It's weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work. -- Barbra Streisand
  • On Michael Jackson and child stardom: He had one of the worst childhoods ever. I think I had the second. -- Elizabeth Taylor
  • I'd always dreamt of acting but, in Adelaide, we don't have exposure to the opportunities that make stardom a possibility. -- Teresa Palmer
  • The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis. -- Claudette Colbert
  • I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff. -- Patti Smith
  • The way I approach stardom and the show, I'm like a politician. I'm an elected late-night official to do your work. -- Arsenio Hall
  • It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than Sven Goran Eriksson. -- Gordon Strachan
  • I don't know why it (stardom) happened-but it's kinda nice. Maybe it's because I'm someone off the streets. Maybe people relate to me. -- Steve McQueen
  • Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with. -- Sean Penn
  • Authentic stardom ... is a gift which, if it is to have any permanent significance, must be bestowed by a public rather than a manager. -- Katharine Cornell
  • To be honest, unless you rocket straight to stardom as a gorgeous young vampire, you can spend a lot of time working behind a bar. -- Adam Rayner
  • 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. -- Chris Isaak
  • I had no plans to be a writer. My teenaged bid for stardom was to be a pop star... which, ahem, didn't exactly work out. -- Sophie Kinsella
  • There's an argument that celebrities stop growing mentally the moment they reach stardom and then they just - everything goes away. I think that's true. -- Greg Gutfeld
  • It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging. -- Shirley Manson
  • No one smiled at me, or looked at me twice; shopping has become my time of reckoning; I will never be able to purchase the stardom I have lost. --
  • I don't consider stardom to be anything related with me. I hope that the only way this business will ever change me will be (giving me) a good life. -- Jennifer Love Hewitt
  • I never thought I was somebody that would be on the cover of magazines in fashions, wearing fashions. It's like not me. But that is what movie stardom entails. -- Meryl Streep
  • I was 13 - 14 when I first tasted stardom. In the summer holidays, my dad made me act in these films that went on to become superhits. I became a child star. -- Mahesh Babu
  • There is a lot of struggle in being an actor; you need so much emotional strength, no matter what level of stardom you have, that it's nice to have something steady. -- Sanaa Lathan
  • The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse. -- Anthony Burgess
  • Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great! -- Kip Winger
  • I want to become actor not because I want money and become more famous. No I don't want that. It is not that l want stardom, I want to contribute to good cinema. -- Terence Lewis
  • As for super-stardom, I can say that I'm ready for anything. I feel like I've mastered so many stages in my life and the cool thing is, I don't see that energy changing anything. -- Aeriel Miranda
  • What really matters is your movies and how good a person you are. Otherwise, tabloids and news channels writing about you only builds your curiosity and stardom and propels you to reach wider places. -- Ranbir Kapoor
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