These stardom quotes will inspire you. Stardom, the status or position of a star or the state or status of being a famous or exceptionally talented performer in the world of entertainment or sports.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging stardom quotes, stardom sayings, and stardom proverbs.
Best Stardom Quotes
- “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
- “I have the stardom glow.” ~ Jennifer Lopez
- “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
- “The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.” ~ John Wooden
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“Stardom isn’t a profession, it’s an accident.” ~ Lauren Bacall
- “There is no spray can called ‘Instant Stardom,’ only talent can keep you at the top.” ~ Jim Dale
- “All you have in the end is to look back and like the choices you’ve made.” ~ Matt Damon
- “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 , Stardom quotes fame
- “Stardom equals freedom. It’s the only equation that matters.” ~ Steve McQueen
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“I won’t be a rock star. I will be a legend.” ~ Freddie Mercury
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
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“Stardom can be a gilded slavery.” ~ Helen Hayes
- “It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.” ~ Bela Lugosi
- “The stars are the apexes of what triangles!” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.” ~ LeBron James
- “God makes stars. I just produce them.” ~ Samuel Goldwyn
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“I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.” ~ Brenda Blethyn
- “We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk
- “Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.” ~ Ben Hecht
- “He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.” ~ William Blake
- “I’m sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.” ~ Christine Baranski
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“You’ve got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it’s not in movie stardom.” ~ Gary Sinise
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “Being at the center of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.” ~ Daniel Day-Lewis
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“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.” ~ Shahrukh Khan
- “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
- “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
- “I really don’t have that much interest in stardom.” ~ Tom Verlaine
- “Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor’s shoulders.” ~ Francesca Annis
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“The stardom thing happened and now I’m trying to make a comeback if you want to call it that.” ~ Leif Garrett
- “I never did anything about my stardom, it never meant anything to me.” ~ Tom Courtenay
- “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.” ~ Shahrukh Khan
- “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 , Stardom quotes life
- “One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you’re a star you’re dead already. You’re embalmed.” ~ Dustin Hoffman
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“In Italy, it’s full-on stardom when you’re a cyclist – eating in restaurants for free, it’s great.” ~ David Millar
- “Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.” ~ Salman Khan
- “You’re not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.” ~ Humphrey Bogart
- “No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.” ~ Robert Frost
- “It’s nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I’m bloody close.” ~ John Lydon
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“There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.” ~ Joseph Addison
- “I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.” ~ Billy Wilder
- “Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn’t honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.” ~ Patrick Dempsey
- “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
- “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
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“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
- “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
- “Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.” ~ Camille Paglia
- “I’ve been in training for stardom.” ~ Bernie Mac
- “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
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“I never had any real security in my life until I found the false security of stardom.” ~ Robert Donat
- “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 notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.” ~ Caitlin Fitzgerald
- “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 , Stardom quotes enjoy
- “Every artist that becomes famous has a team, and needs to convince someone to believe in them enough to have others rally around them to achieve stardom. If I can be that person, then I am happy to do it.” ~ Wendy Starland
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“Don’t be so obsessed with stardom that you miss out on success” ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
- “We talk about how we think, believe, suspect Michael Jackson treats children. We don’t talk about how WE treat child stars. Child stars are abused by the culture. And what’s more treacherous than when the rewards of child stardom issue from the abuse?
Child stars are performers above all else. Whenever their triumps, they are going to make sure we see everyone of their scars. That’s the final price of admission.” ~ Margo Jefferson - “I don’t really want people to see me. I’m not into stardom.” ~ David Suchet
- “There’s no doubt I was a bit of a misfit in the Hollywood of the forties. The race for glamour left me far behind. I didn’t really want to keep up. I wanted my stardom without the usual trimmings. Because of this, I was branded a rebel at the very least. But I don’t regret that for a minute. My appetite was my own and I simply wouldn’t have it any other way.” ~ Veronica Lake
- “You know, rock stardom… I have a hard time discussing that because I don’t really accept it. It’s not really that tangible. What’s really bizarre is how it’s used as a thing – you know, ‘He’s the rock star of politics,’ ‘He’s the rock star of quarterbacks’ – like it’s the greatest thing in the world.” ~ Eddie Vedder
- “Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one’s seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural stardom and the inevitable waning of physical capacities prevent many architects from attaining the transcendent final phase more easily achieved by artists in other mediums.” ~ Martin Filler
