quotations about stardom
Stardom is a strange mixture of studio-produced hagiography, fan magazine gossip, and audience desire.
ANONYMOUS
Book Review Digest, 1992
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
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
The years of sacrifice and struggle
The arc of stardom's natural course
The inevitable decline
The wolves waiting at the door
BOB SEGER
"Revisionism Street"
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"
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
The superstar is. He does not create media events; he is in and of himself a media event.
ANONYMOUS
Ebony, 1979
If any young actor dreams that stardom is a trip to heaven, while packing his bags, he'd do well to choose his wardrobe with a much hotter climate in mind.
HELEN HAYES
On Reflection: An Autobiography
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
"Q&A: Tennis: Federer's heart is in South Africa", Reuters, February 21, 2013
I'm a movie star, I'm an astronaut
And I own this bar
And I would lie to you for your love
KIM CARNES
"I'd Lie To You For Your Love"
Idolise, Tabloid lies
From god to art
We need a star
You're in my soul
You're in my mind
I walk on water
Everynight
STEREOPHONICS
"Moviestar"
Once I achieved stardom, the whole apparatus of the theater palled on me.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD
Tallulah: My Autobiography
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
attributed, Lifehack
My beloved movie star
There's more than cold cream in your jar
When eyebrows arch and lips are dry
When you're alone at night, you cry
STAN RIDGEWAY
"Beloved Movie Star"
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
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
Remember the tragedy of a great movie star
She brought joy to millions was worshiped from apart
It seems she had everything was gifted from above
Yet took her own life she had everything but love
KITTY WELLS
"Love Makes the World Go Around"
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
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