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• The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.

  Claudette Colbert

  Casting, Made, Couches

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• That's what keeps me humble because I know my background, know what my mother went through. I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do. My mom always says and my friends all say, ’You're just a very low-maintenance guy’. I don't need too much. Glamour and all that stuff don't excite me. I am just glad I have the game of basketball in my life.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Mom, Mother

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• I can't think of another actor who acquired stardom so quickly, who held it for such a short time, and then kept it for such a long time. James Dean became a star in one calendar year, and then he left us. But he's still being talked about, he's still being revered, he's still being iconized forty years later. I don't think there's another example like it in the entire history of movies.

  Leonard Maltin

  Stars, Thinking, Years

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• I heard there were two local guys in town doing songs and comedy so I thought I'd take a look....they took my breath away...with their music, comedy, and showmanship.... 'Dakaboom'.. is the genuine article! Two voices in perfect harmony, and with joyful abandon and humor, they take you on a magical, musical, modern day vaudeville tour!! Ben McLain and Paul Peglar are headed for stardom. They are unique, they are original, and they are known as 'Dakaboom.' Don't miss 'em 'cause you're in for a treat!

  Tommy Smothers

  Song, Unique, Two

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• There's no doubt I was a bit of a misfit in the Hollywood of the forties. The race for glamour left me far behind. I didn't really want to keep up. I wanted my stardom without the usual trimmings. Because of this, I was branded a rebel at the very least. But I don't regret that for a minute. My appetite was my own and I simply wouldn't have it any other way.

  Veronica Lake

  Regret, Race, Doubt

  Veronica Lake, Donald M. Bain (1971). “Veronica”

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• We talk about how we think, believe, suspect Michael Jackson treats children. We don't talk about how WE treat child stars. Child stars are abused by the culture. And what's more treacherous than when the rewards of child stardom issue from the abuse?
  Child stars are performers above all else. Whenever their triumps, they are going to make sure we see everyone of their scars. That's the final price of admission.

  Margo Jefferson

  Stars, Children, Believe

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• I never had any real security in my life until I found the false security of stardom.

  Robert Donat

  Real, Found, Security

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

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• Don't be so obsessed with stardom that you miss out on success

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Missing, Obsessed

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• I don't really want people to see me. I'm not into stardom.

  David Suchet

  People, Want

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't know why it (stardom) happened-but it's kinda nice. Maybe it's because I'm someone off the streets. Maybe people relate to me.

  Steve McQueen

  Nice, People, Fame

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• That's how you deal with stardom; you make it the least important part of your life.

  John Lithgow

  Important, Deals

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• You aim at all the things you have been told that stardom means the rich life, the applause, the parties cluttered with celebrities. Then you find that you have it all. And it is nothing, really nothing. It is like a drug that lasts just a few hours, a sleeping pill. When it wears off, you have to live without its help.

  Susan Hayward

  Party, Mean, Sleep

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• It was the vehicle that propelled me to international stardom. ("Harder They Come") I was known as a singer/songwriter before that, but people did not know me as an actor. It showed the world where the music I contributed to create was coming from. It opened the gates for Jamaican music, internationally.

  Jimmy Cliff

  People, World, Singers

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• The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse.

  Anthony Burgess

  Suicidal, Essence, Musical

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• I know chances are if I don't give an interview or make a public appearance or statement from time to time, they'll invent one. Every so often, I suppose people ask, 'Whatever happened to that other Beatle, George Harrison?' And someone comes around with a ready answer, no matter how preposterous it seems. It's possibly the worst price one has to pay for what they call stardom.

  George Harrison

  People, Giving, Answers

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• The name Derek Jeter is made for stardom. He's got an infectious smile, and he's so handsome and well-behaved. He's just a fine young man who does everything right. He's like Jack Armstrong and Frank Merriwell, guys I grew up rooting for. Some guys come along who just measure up.

  George Steinbrenner

  Men, Names, Guy

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• My father, Benjamin Shiller, told me not to believe in authorities or celebrities - that society tends to imagine them as superhuman. It's good advice. People are snowed by celebrities all the time. In academia people have this idea of achieving stardom - publishing in the best journals, being at the best university, writing on the hot topic everyone else is writing about. But that's what my father told me not to do. He taught me that you have to pursue things that sound right to you.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Father, Believe, Writing

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• I never thought I was somebody that would be on the cover of magazines in fashions, wearing fashions. It's like not me. But that is what movie stardom entails.

  Meryl Streep

  Fashion, Would Be, Magazines

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• I always wanted to make strangers and friends and family laugh. I was over ten years younger than my brothers. It was hard to get attention without some kind of gimmick, like athletic stardom or being funny.

  Gary Gulman

  Brother, Years, Strangers And Friends

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• I like being very busy. I think that's the definition of stardom, really. It's energy. It really is.

  Faye Dunaway

  Thinking, Energy, Actors

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• I never liked stardom. It's weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.

  Barbra Streisand

  Creative, Process, Creative Process

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• Celebrities were quick to understand that paparazzi could make icons of them. The more a star is followed and admired, the greater the adulation. So they raised the stakes, sometimes hiding when they don't even need to. Today, stardom is more ephemeral and it's photography that gives them their celebrity status.

  Ron Galella

  Photography, Stars, Icons

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• It was my second show as a writer, and Justin Timberlake was just coming off boy-band stardom. People were rolling their eyes, but I used to watch the Mickey Mouse Club, and I knew all those kids were talented as hell. Justin was as comfortable on camera in that first episode as any of our cast members.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Kids, Eye, Boys

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• As for super-stardom, I can say that I'm ready for anything. I feel like I've mastered so many stages in my life and the cool thing is, I don't see that energy changing anything.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Energy, Stage, Ready

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• Super-stardom doesn't scare or excite me. It's just another ingredient added to my world.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Scare, World, Ingredients

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