quotations about stardom
Once I achieved stardom, the whole apparatus of the theater palled on me.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD
Tallulah: My Autobiography
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
Stardom is becoming, superstardom is being.
ANONYMOUS
Ebony, 1979
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
Movie star queen, a movie star queen
Can move me not.
Movie star queen, take off the paint, baby.
THE JACKSON 5
"Nobody"
You feel like Steve McQueen
When you're driving in your car
And you think you look like James Bond
When you're smoking your cigar
It's so bizarre
You think you are
The new kind of James Dean
But the only thing I've ever seen of you
Was a commercial spot on the screen
HARPO
"Moviestar"
Stardom has two general trajectories. First, stardom functions as part of the production process -- it is vital to representation, narrative, and marketing. Once produced, stardom is then consumed by audiences, located in particular, but mobile, sites of time and space. The two dimensions -- production and consumption -- thus work together to generate specific meanings of stardom.
STEPHEN HINERMAN
"Star Culture", Culture in the Communication Age
Stardom is no longer the fuel of my soul. It is the deeper aspects of life that nurture me. And I realise I am very blessed.
SHARON STONE
"The Irrepressible Sharon Stone is Stunning in Lovelace", PCM World News, August 2013