Star Quotes

I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.

You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

I just don't think of myself as a star. This is what I do for a living; I'm fortunate that I make ends meet.

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

I don't even know what TV star means. I know there's a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies. They feel OK coming up to you and sitting with you in a restaurant, unfortunately.

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.

The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.

You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?

It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.

I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.

I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.

Hitch suggested a name actress to play Marion because the bigger the star the more unbelievable it would be that we would kill her.

I'm the kind of person who, if I see a shooting star, I wouldn't stay there and watch it. I'd run to my friends and tell them because I would want everyone to see it too.

I don't really have much to prove. I can easily go in a comfort zone, make two films a year, hype them because I've signed them as a star, make them cheap and they will be big hits.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have.

I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is 'Star Trek.' They are by and large very imaginative, very intelligent people, and they certainly have been more than generous to me.

It's inconceivable to some people that that wouldn't be the sexiest thing to do in the whole world: to be a movie star, and make money, and be pampered, and whatever.

Star Trek has brought so much of what I want within my grasp.

Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful.

I'm not doing this to be a pop star. I've had plenty of money and attention. I'm doing it for credibility.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.

I know I'm a pop star. But sometime I'd like to be a rock star.

I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.