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• Keanu Reeves is, like, the worst actor I've ever seen. I can't believe he's a movie star.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Stars, Believe, Actors

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• J. Lo, whether she is good or bad, is like a fiery movie star, a throwback to Elizabeth Taylor in her heyday.

  Steven Cojocaru

  Stars, Heyday, Throwback

  "Interview with Steven Cojocaru, 'People'". "CNN Live Today", www.cnn.com. March 25, 2002.

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• During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot

  Parker Stevenson

  Stars, Boys, Careers

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• Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.

  Norman Mailer

  Stars, Simple, Giving

  Norman Mailer (2016). “Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968”, p.218, Random House

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• I respect newspapers but the reality is that magazine "photojournalism" is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Stars, Reality, Illustration

  "Mary Ellen Mark on photography". Interview with D.K. Row, www.oregonlive.com. August 12, 2010.

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• Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.

  Jay McInerney

  Stars, Successful, Certain

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• American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.

  Vincente Minnelli

  Song, Stars, Important

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

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• It was a fine fall morning in Paris, crisp and clear, and Benji was quite full of himself, cavorting near the fountain, playing with the children who had inexplicably materialized out of nowhere at the first whiff of a movie star. Their faces radiated and they took turns gently stroking his head. Those Benji chose to favor with a big sloppy lick exploded with laughter, and one young girl ran to her mother, screeching in French that she would never wash her face again.

  Joe Camp

  Funny, Girl, Mother

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• The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president

  Michael Reagan

  Stars, Children, Odds

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• Of all the jaw-droppingly beautiful women who've become genuine movie stars, none has had a longer film career (62 years), has been filmed in Technicolor more often (34 times), has had a more versatile group of leading men (from John Wayne to John Candy) or has spent more time held captive on a pirate ship than our TCM Star of the Month for July, the magnificent red-headed Maureen O'Hara.

  Robert Osborne

  Beautiful, Stars, Men

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• The fierce ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might well have been imagined by Horatio Alger, Jr.-- or Samuel Goldwyn-- but not the hidden costs behind those achievements. Carl Rollyson compassionately captures the man behind the movie star.

  Marion Meade

  Stars, Ambition, Son

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• A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.

  Allison Pearson

  Mother, Stars, Boys

  Allison Pearson (2004). “I don't know how she does it: the life of Kate Reddy, working mother”

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• There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the papers.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Stars, Hollywood, Paper

  "17 Questions With Jean-Claude Van Damme". Interview with Bertan Budak, www.askmen.com. February 13, 2009.

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• What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Stars, Real, Shells

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

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• When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Stars, Thinking, Ham

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• It's absolutely impossible to have a serious critical discussion about enthusiasms for movie stars. Because a movie star is an animal separate from acting. Sometimes, he or she is a great actor. Sometimes a third-rate one. But the star is something that you fall in love with.

  Peter Biskind

  Falling In Love, Stars, Animal

  Peter Biskind (2013). “My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles”, p.193, Macmillan

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• Why is a movie starring women considered a gimmick and a movie starring men is just a normal movie?

  Paul Feig

  Men, Gimmicks, Normal

  "Paul Feig explains his vision for a female-led 'Ghostbusters'". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.ew.com. October 8, 2014.

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• I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.

  Rosie Perez

  Stars, Latin, Trying

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• I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.

  Kevin Kline

  Stars, Stupid, Thinking

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

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• In my life, I've been a movie star, a rock star, and a sports star, all wrapped up into one-and worked harder at it than anybody else.

  Ric Flair

  Life, Sports, Stars

  Ric Flair (2010). “Ric Flair: To Be the Man”, p.471, Simon and Schuster

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• I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.

  Al Pacino

  Stars, Perception, Actors

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

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• When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.

  Michael Caine

  Stars, Playing Someone, Lovers

  "Why Michael Caine's daughter is banned from seeing his latest film" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2009.

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• Well I ain't no movie star but I can get behind anything!

  Gordon Downie

  Stars, Wells, Behinds

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• To become a big movie star like Joan Crawford you need to wear blinders and pay single-minded attention to your career. Nobody paid attention to me, including me. I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.

  Evelyn Keyes

  Girl, Stars, Fairy Stories

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• At the Golden Globes, they put all the bigger stars in the front; the movie stars in the front, TV actors in the back. But even as a movie star, you can be outseated by a bigger star in any given year. It's kind of hilarious. You have to take it in stride.

  Julianne Moore

  Stars, Years, Tvs

  "Emmys 2012: Julianne Moore on Becoming Sarah Palin and Moving to TV Full Time". Interview with Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 21, 2012.

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