Star Quotes

Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.

Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the movie finally began, they started crying. Mainly because they realized that it's 22 years later, and they still haven't lost their virginity.

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.

There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.

I really want to be a rock star.

I had some issues. When I first had to deal with being in 'Star Wars,' you know, who wouldn't?

I think anybody with any intelligence sits down and sees Star Trek not a kids' show.

I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.

I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful.

There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Maybe I should have taken a few chances. That's not to say I want to go make 'Star Wars,' but I need to shift my career into the studio world. That's where my head was at when I thought of the original plot.

Some people burn out, and some people like Clint Eastwood, he was a wild, international movie star in his 30s, and he's doing the best work of his life now. Go figure.

There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock 'n' roll star.

If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.

Warren Beatty has always acted like a Movie Star even when no one knew who he was.

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.

It's tourists in New York. Everything is geared towards that. It's so hard on Broadway now for them to get people in there. They have to compete with so many other entertainments, so they have to bring a star in which puts people there out of work.

Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.

Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.

I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.

I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish.

I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.

Fifteen years ago, France was the promised land of cooking. So I looked at a map, found five restaurants and faxed them to ask for a job. Within five minutes, I got a reply from the then three- star Le Jardin des Sens in Montpellier.

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.

I don't think I'm a star or a celebrity or any thing like that.

There are several books that I have-the Physics of Star Trek, Star Trek and Business, there are manuals on command style and countless scholarly papers that have been written about the significance of Next Generation.

You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in.

No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.