Film Stars Quotes - Page 2

• I don't want to be a film star. I don't even want to be a pop star. I just want to live in peace.

  George Harrison

  Stars, Want, Film

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• I am interested in Icons, not just religious works but also contemporary icons. I also like the way the Pop movement of the 60s took subjects from consumer products and people - soup cans, comic books, film stars - and elevated them through art, just like in traditional iconography.

  Horace Panter

  Religious, Art, Stars

  Source: louderthanwar.com

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• Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, 'It was a perfect script for she and I,' inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, 'Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?'

  Dick Cavett

  Sarcastic, Teacher, Stars

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.12, Macmillan

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• In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a patient or as a doctor, we have only one commercial American filmmaker who consistently speaks with his own voice. That is Woody Allen, gag writer, musician, humorist, philosopher, playwright, stand-up comic, film star, film writer and film director.

  Vincent Canby

  Stars, Opportunity, Greatness

  The New York Times, July 17, 1983.

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• My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.

  Eddie Marsan

  Stars, Ideas, Trying

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• I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Stars, Thinking, Want

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• Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

  Doris Lessing

  Stars, Cutting, People

  'The Habit of Loving' (1957) ch. 17

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  The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Funny, Cute, Movie

  1954 In the Journal American, 22 Feb.

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• The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.

  Benjamin Walker

  Mother, Stars, Law

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• With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.

  George Michael

  Stars, Self, People

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• I'm still Sean that me mates went to school with, not Sean the film star. And that's the way I prefer to be.

  Sean Bean

  Stars, School, Way

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• Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.

  Dirk Benedict

  Stars, Nice, Would Be

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• A lavish colored evocation of Hollywood now gone, as shown through an afternoon in the milieu of the 1920's film star.

  Kenneth Anger

  Stars, Hollywood, Gone

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• Fame should be left to the film stars.

  Alexander McQueen

  Stars, Film, Fame

  "God save McQueen" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2003.

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• Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a world of great fortune both in matters of luck and money; stories and fantasies about rock stars and film stars, sporting millionaires and models; jet-setting members of the aristocracy and international financiers.

  James Kelman

  Stars, Reading, Emotional

  James Kelman (2012). “And the Judges Said&…: Essays”, p.56, Birlinn

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• I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.

  Dirk Benedict

  Stars, Careers, Film

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• I almost choke on my popcorn when I hear film stars, who walk on red carpets as much as the rest of us do on zebra crossings, criticising youngsters who crave fame.

  Julie Burchill

  Stars, Zebras, Popcorn

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• I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

  Natalie Wood

  Stars, Home, Swimming

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• We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday’s films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep the plays of dead dramatists upon our bookshelves, but the actor who holds his audience captive for one brief moment upon a lighted stage vanishes forever when the curtain falls.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Stars, Fall, Play

  Daphne Du Maurier (1980). “The Rebecca notebook and other memories”, Book Sales

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• I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.

  Stephen Fry

  Stars, Quality, Ordinary

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2004.

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• Growing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars' kids at my school - but no conspicuous wealth. It wasn't cool to show off that you had money.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Stars, Growing Up, School

  "Five things I know about style: Zooey Deschanel". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2010.

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• My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.

  Michael Caine

  Stars, Wife, Half

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• There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

  Louise Brooks

  Stars, Careers, World

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• For at the hour of death you became a celebrated film star, it is a moment of glory for everyone, when the choral music scales the top notes.

  Clarice Lispector

  Stars, Film, Moments

  Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.28, New Directions Publishing

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• Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

  C. S. Lewis

  Spiritual, Kings, Stars

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