quotations about stardom
You're not a movie star
It's harder now than yesterday,
As the lines begin to show
WISHBONE ASH
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"Silver Ash"
Everyone seems to agree that the first and most vital quality for stardom is to want to be a performer more than anything else in the world. It may seem a bit trite, but it is true.
DIANNE NICHOLSON
"Turn On to Stardom"
Remember that stardom is more than ability or will, although will is a large part of it.
HAROLD BRODKEY
Sea Battles on Dry Land: Essays
Little movie star?
Could you be my long lost girl?
It's true that
I don't really know you
But I'm alone in the world
JAMIE WALTERS
"Winona"
Stardom is the lack of ... substance, the possession only of image, reputation, notoriety, fame.
SIMON DIXON
"The Figure in the Background: Stardom and Filmic Space", Film and Television Stardom
Stardom bends our attention and thereby bends our sense of filmic space.
SIMON DIXON
"The Figure in the Background: Stardom and Filmic Space", Film and Television Stardom
Lipstick in hand
Tahitian tan
In her painted on jeans
She dreams of fame
She changed her name
To one that fits the movie screen
She's headed for the big time
MICHAEL JACKSON
"Hollywood Tonight"
Stardom is a strategy of performance that is an adaptive response to the limits and pressures exerted upon acting in the mainstream cinema.
CHRISTINE GLEDHILL
Stardom: Industry of Desire
Film stardom is therefore never an individual, innate or inevitable effect. It requires the organized collective actions of multiple participants. Whatever aura of presence the star brings to the screen is largely due to the artful manipulation of film form. Once these factors are taken into consideration, it becomes impossible to accept stardom is natural or predestined. Instead, fundamentals to the symbolic commerce of stardom is the recognition that stardom is a product of industrialized cultural production, the outcome of multiple, highly organized, inputs and actions.
PAUL MCDONALD
Hollywood Stardom
True, long-term stardom is reserved only for the fortunate few who possess the rare combination of unique talent, artistic and business vision, single-minded drive, and a willingness to adapt and grow. That said, one must bear in mind that beyond the tangible and intangible factors that go into achieving legend status, an artist simply has to have an abundance of blind luck.
XAVIER M. FRASCOGNA, JR. & H. LEE HETHERINGTON
This Business of Artist Management
He fell in love with the image of himself
and suddenly the picture was distorted
Even the greatest stars dislike themselves in the looking glass
KRAFTWERK
"The Hall of Mirrors"
I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things. The more I meet other actors, the less the idea of the mythical movie star--an imaginary desire object who conforms to a certain ideal--makes sense to me at all. I think if people realize this when they read interviews, they might be less avid about them. It's sad that they get fooled into buying magazines and seeing films when so much of it is ... a sort of fabrication.
JULIE CHRISTIE
Interview Magazine, March 1997
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught on the crossfire of childhood and stardom,
Blown on the steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter,
Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!
You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
PINK FLOYD
"Shine On You Crazy Diamond"
It hurts when people let you know
That you're not a movie star.
WISHBONE ASH
"Silver Ash"
They are irrelevant as mercenaries in times of peace
They are smoke twisting off the lips of a movie star
PIG DESTROYER
"Junkyard God"
Idolise, Tabloid lies
From god to art
We need a star
You're in my soul
You're in my mind
I walk on water
Everynight
STEREOPHONICS
"Moviestar"
Suppose every photo of me ever taken was an infinitesimal piece? Every magazine ad, every negative, every frame of motion picture film -- another tiny molecule of me, stolen away to feed an audience that is never satiated. And when someone is fully consumed -- vampirized -- they move on, still hungry, to pick their next victim by making him or her a star. That's why they're called consumers.
DAVID J. SCHOW
Seeing Red
Sociologists note that stardom is socially constructed through an intangible cooperation between fans who assign an individual "supervalued" identity and performers who accept this externally produced self-definition.
MELTON ALONZA MCLAURIN
You Wrote My Life: Lyrical Themes in Country Music
Stardom is a strange mixture of studio-produced hagiography, fan magazine gossip, and audience desire.
ANONYMOUS
Book Review Digest, 1992
Stardom is never that simple. If there's anything I've learned, it's that most stars think things just happen to them because they are talented or beautiful or just special. It's a childlike -- and childish -- view of the world and it keeps them from developing any sense of responsibility about their own lives. It's why publicists were invented.
HILARY DE VRIES
So Five Minutes Ago