Film Stars Quotes

• Don't let's ask for the moon.We have the stars.

  Casey Robinson

  Movie, Stars, Moon

  1942 Line delivered by Bette Davis to Paul Henreid in Now, Voyager.

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• May the Force be with you.

  George Lucas

  Movie, Film History, Psychics

  Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

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• Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.

  Bette Davis

  Movie, Inspiring, Stars

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• I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

  Natalie Portman

  Stars, Smart, College

  "Cerebral Celebs Give Up Screen for Studies". New York Post, www.foxnews.com. May 23, 2002.

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• These Are Not The Droids You Are Looking For.

  George Lucas

  War, Jedi Knights, Books And Movies

  George Lucas, Sally Kline (1999). “George Lucas: Interviews”, p.208, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The so-called film star's lot is an infantile and precarious one.

  Hildegard Knef

  Movie, Stars, Film

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• I never thought of myself as any kind of a film star, as many films as I've made - and I've made some really fun movies with good people. I've always been paired with someone because I'm not really box office, in that carrying-a-picture sense. I've always been busy, but not in the spotlight.

  Lily Tomlin

  Stars, Fun, People

  Source: deadline.com

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• I never envisioned myself being a film star at all. Most people know that pro wrestling is a little bit of an accident for me. I never really had any real aspirations of being in front of a camera.

  Roddy Piper

  Stars, Real, Wrestling

  Source: www.wrestlenewz.com

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• I'm going to be a great film star. That is, if booze and sex don't get me first.

  Jay Presson Allen

  Sex, Stars, Ambition

  "Fictional character: Sally Bowles". "Cabaret", www.imdb.com. 1972.

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• A film star is a kind of public monument, and everyone's staring at them, and they've kind of got railings around them, and they're rather miserable most of the time.

  Stephen Fry

  Stars, Kind, Film

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

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• People behave differently to TV stars and film stars; it's to do with the scale of the medium. Film stars get hushed awe, TV stars get slapped on the back. Neither is good for you. Famous people don't hear the word 'no' enough.

  Tom Hollander

  Stars, People, Tvs

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• A great many film stars perched on unstable ravine edges in the canyon systems of Los Angeles will, like the cemeteries there, eventually slide down to join their unfortunate fellows in the canyon floors, with mud, cars, and embalmed or living film stars in one glorious muddy mass. We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.

  Bill Mollison

  Stars, Creating, Car

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• Monarchy can easily be "debunked," but watch the faces, mark well the debunkers. These are the men whose taproot in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach - men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film stars instead: For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

  C. S. Lewis

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Stars

  "Equality". The Spectator, Volume CLXXI, archive.spectator.co.uk. August 27, 1943.

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• I wish to be appreciated not only as a film star but also for the person I am. If I manage to bring a smile on people's faces, then I think I'll be successful.

  Deepika Padukone

  Stars, Successful, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.

  Anita Loos

  Stars, World, Normal

  Anita Loos (1951). “A Mouse is Born”

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• Dustin Hoffman said this one time, that if he hadn't made it as a film star, he would still be happy as a character actor because he was a character actor because of his face from day one, so he would always work in the theater.

  Denis Leary

  Stars, Character, Actors

  "Denis Leary Wants David Bowie & Steven Tyler In ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Season 2 – Comic Con". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. July 12, 2015.

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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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