quotations about stardom
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
Seeing Red
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 intimately intertwined with the narratives enacted by stars; in other words, stardom is less a mystery than it is a cultural construction that feeds off memory and popular history.
MARCIA LANDY & AMY VILLAREJO
"Queen Christina", British Film Institute Film Classics, Volume 1
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 a contradictory mixture of subjectivity and collectivity, of the common (wo)man and the unique individual but it is also the marriage of democracy and commercialism.
LEE MARSHALL
Bob Dylan: The Never Ending Star
Little movie star?
Could you be my long lost girl?
It's true that
I don't really know you
But I'm alone in the world
JAMIE WALTERS
"Winona"
Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals.
ANI DIFRANCO
interview, A. V. Club, March 13, 2002
If stardom is a combination of ordinary and extraordinary, the balance does sometimes need adjusting and the star does need to connect to the present, and in some sense the lived space of the fan.
MICHAEL WILLIAMS
Film Stardom, Myth and Classicism: The Rise of Hollywood's Gods
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
"The Hall of Mirrors"
The superstar is. He does not create media events; he is in and of himself a media event.
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
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
This Business of Artist Management
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
Hollywood Stardom
They are irrelevant as mercenaries in times of peace
They are smoke twisting off the lips of a movie star
PIG DESTROYER
"Junkyard God"
The sequel would catapult me into the New York Times #1 book for 18 months straight. I would not allow my stardom to affect my Zen-Monk demeanor. I would retire into my mansion, become a Zen-Monk master and own three Jeeps.
MICHAEL SCOTT GALLEGOS
"Beach House Anniversary", September 18, 2014
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
So Five Minutes Ago
Once I achieved stardom, the whole apparatus of the theater palled on me.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD
Tallulah: My Autobiography
Spinning dreams with angel wings
Torn blue jeans a foolish grin
Burning down in the night
So cool so right
Star power star power star power over me
SONIC YOUTH
"Starpower"
I am suggesting that the appeal of stardom is that of constant reinvention, the dissolution of contraries, the embrace of wildly opposing terms.
JUDITH MAYNE
Cinema and Spectatorship
Don't want to be common
Might want to feel stardom
Just want to be cared for
That's all, cool
THE WANNADIES
"That's All"