Star Quotes

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

Clearly, if we'd had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.

For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

In our day we went from - we went into saloons. We couldn't cross over like you can today, get a television series and all of a sudden you're a major movie star, you know.

I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.

Honestly I just wear what I like. You know why? 'Cause I can, I'm a rock star.

If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence.

Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it.

I have friends who wear Star Wars costumes and act like the characters all day. I may not be that deep into it, but there's something great about loving what you love and not caring if it's unpopular.

I think I am a star - I'm simply a funny-shaped star.

Unless you're a star in this town, you're really nothing.

I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives.

What they told us about 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' when we first started was that we were guaranteed 26 episodes, so that was the longest job I've ever had. And that was basically it - we didn't know what the premise of the show was going to be and we waited, week by week, to see a script.

The formula is the star. I couldn't work inside that formula.

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.

When I was involved with 'Star Wars,' I was very interested in all the backstories, and I used to pepper George with all kinds of questions about anything that crossed my mind, because I was very, very into it. But when the job came to an end, I had to move on.

I wanted to be a rich, famous rock-and-roll star in that order.

Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.

In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.

The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars.

I think a lot of people, if they get the opportunity to do some acting, they think, 'I might be a star.'

I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.

I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.

Which is good, in a way, because the danger in doing something like STAR TREK is that you end up in that pigeonhole and you're doing that the rest of your life.

It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.

Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.

What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.

People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite.