Stars Quotes

‘Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.’ – Theodore Roosevelt

‘It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.’ – William Shakespeare

‘We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.’ – Mother Teresa

‘I’m a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.’ – Mike Tyson

‘Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.’ – Vincent Van Gogh

‘Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.’ – Les Brown

‘When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.’ – Akhenaton

‘Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.’ – Casey Kasem

‘The stars don’t look bigger, but they do look brighter.’ – Sally Ride

‘God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.’ – Martin Luther

‘Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.’ – Saint Augustine

‘The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.’ – Babe Ruth

‘We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.’ – Og Mandino

‘Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.’ – Omar N. Bradley

‘Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.’ – Jeremy Bentham

‘You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.’ – Gary Allan

‘We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.’ – Marilyn Monroe

‘When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.’ – Kalpana Chawla

‘If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.’ – Bill Watterson

‘Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.’ – Alan Watts

‘Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.’ – Gilbert Parker

‘I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.’ – Walt Whitman

‘The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.’ – Joseph Addison

‘Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.’ – Nicolaus Copernicus

‘Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.’ – Victor Hugo

‘When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.’ – Leo Burnett

‘Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.’ – John Lennon

‘If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless.’ – James E. Faust

‘Turn your scars into stars.’ – Robert H. Schuller

‘I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.’ – e. e. cummings

‘And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there… Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.’ – Ezra Pound

‘Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.’ – Henry Van Dyke

‘The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.’ – Havelock Ellis

‘Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.’ – Henry Ford

‘No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.’ – Helen Keller

‘We are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.’ – George H. W. Bush

‘What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.’ – William Wordsworth

‘For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.’ – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘You’ve come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don’t know whether you yourself are fortunate or lucky.’ – Rumi

‘Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.’ – Isaac Asimov

‘To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.’ – John Burroughs

‘We are all stars in this galaxy. All of us. No one’s greater than the other.’ – Scatman Crothers

‘There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.’ – Elon Musk

‘It has been discovered that all the world is made of the same atoms, that the stars are of the same stuff as ourselves. It then becomes a question of where our stuff came from. Not just where did life come from, or where did the earth come from, but where did the stuff of life and of the earth come from?’ – Richard P. Feynman

‘There is stardust in your veins. We are literally, ultimately children of the stars.’ – Jocelyn Bell Burnell

‘The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.’ – Galileo Galilei

‘How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.’ – William Butler Yeats

‘When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.’ – John Muir

‘Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.’ – Jack Kerouac

‘You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable.’ – Cathy Freeman

‘You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it’s like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.’ – Tom Hanks

‘Nobody’s life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.’ – Yoko Ono

‘Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!’ – Lord Byron

‘If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘I am not a person who reaches for the moon as long as I have the stars.’ – Gertrude Ederle

‘With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing ‘philosophy of the universe’ through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call ‘stereotypical repetition.” – Yayoi Kusama

‘Reach for the stars.’ – Christa McAuliffe

‘I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.’ – Al Pacino

‘It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for – the whole thing – rather than just one or two stars.’ – David Attenborough

‘Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.’ – Regina Brett

‘Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.’ – Gustave Flaubert

‘O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.’ – Christopher Marlowe

‘Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.’ – Edward Young

‘We sit in the mud… and reach for the stars.’ – Ivan Turgenev

‘Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.’ – Sojourner Truth

‘One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.’ – Miguel de Cervantes

‘We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.’ – John Webster

‘And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.’ – Edmund Spenser

‘That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.’ – Leonard Nimoy

‘Shoot for the moon – if you miss you’ll end up in the stars.’ – Artie Shaw

‘It isn’t a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.’ – Benjamin E. Mays

‘One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it – in the galaxy, half a billion stars have Earth-like planets going around them – that’s huge, half a billion. So when we look at the night sky, it makes sense that someone is looking back at us.’ – Michio Kaku

‘At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.’ – Natalie Wood

‘Even a fool knows you can’t touch the stars, but it won’t keep the wise from trying.’ – Harry Anderson

‘Remember to reach for the stars, and they won’t be able to resist flying into your hands!’ – Katherine McNamara

‘What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?’ – E. M. Forster

‘Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport.’ – Andrea Hirata

‘Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.’ – Paracelsus

‘God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.’ – Max Lucado

‘The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.’ – John Milton

‘Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation’s founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America’s storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.’ – Joe Barton

‘The James Webb Space Telescope was specifically designed to see the first stars and galaxies that were formed in the universe.’ – John M. Grunsfeld

‘Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.’ – Sai Baba

‘Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust – or less than dust – in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.’ – Carl Sagan

‘How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die.’ – Thomas Cole

‘He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.’ – Confucius

‘Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.’ – Maria Mitchell

‘Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do.’ – Brian May

‘A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.’ – David Eagleman

‘After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and the sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.’ – Charles Lindbergh

‘People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.’ – Soren Kierkegaard

‘I hope to continue to inspire our nation’s youth to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math so they, too, may reach for the stars.’ – Ellen Ochoa

‘I am deeply grieved by the loss of the crew of Columbia. I express my sincere condolences to the families and friends of the astronauts. I believe that their names will remain as the bright sparkling stars in the universe and will light the way for those who will follow them on the difficult roads of space exploration.’ – Valentina Tereshkova

‘A child’s fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.’ – Julien Green

‘I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‘OK, I’m done.’ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.’ – Conor McGregor

‘Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘I’m not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.’ – Mae Jemison

‘From the point of view of being in the public radar, comedians have less problems than other actors. Action movie stars like Stallone or Schwarzenegger usually attract the more aggressive fans.’ – Robin Williams

‘I grew up in the Great Depression, and the jazz artists and Dixieland musicians were at the core of our communications and enjoyment. They were not passing fancies. They are something that is, and will be, listened to again and again. I have a space of reverence for some of those old jazz stars such as Sydney Bechet and Louis Armstrong.’ – Harry Belafonte

‘Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They’re afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.’ – Fred Allen

‘Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.’ – Bette Davis

‘The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.’ – Giotto di Bondone

‘And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.’ – William Styron

‘As we reflect back upon the tragic loss of Challenger and her brave crew of heroes who were aboard that fateful day, I am reminded that they truly represented the best of us, as they climbed aloft on a plume of propellant gasses, reaching for the stars, to inspire us who were Earthbound.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘God makes stars. I just produce them.’ – Samuel Goldwyn

‘A sister is like yourself in a different movie, a movie that stars you in a different life.’ – Deborah Tannen

‘Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.’ – Jose Marti

‘It’s wild how chefs have become like rock stars.’ – Todd English

‘The day is not far distant when three Stars and Stripes at three equidistant points will mark our territory: one at the North Pole, another at the Panama Canal, and the third at the South Pole. The whole hemisphere will be ours in fact as, by virtue of our superiority of race, it already is ours morally.’ – William Howard Taft

‘An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I’m going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.’ – Robbie Williams

‘All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.’ – Charles A. Beard

‘Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?’ – Jeb Bush

‘There’s no night without stars.’ – Andre Norton

‘No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.’ – Quintus Ennius

‘Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.’ – Eric Hoffer

‘If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘I won’t say that I’m an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know… but I’m not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.’ – B. F. Skinner

‘It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.’ – Arthur C. Clarke

‘Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.’ – Ben Stein

‘I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.’ – Anne Lamott

‘The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs.’ – Kaskade

‘I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.’ – Max Muller

‘A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.’ – Alexander Smith

‘I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘I remember lying out in my bed and looking at the vast, quiet sky. Right up above my head, there were three stars in a row, and I remember thinking, ‘Well, I’ll have those three stars all my life, and wherever I am, they will be. They are my stars, and they belong to me.” – Spike Milligan

‘I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.’ – Johannes Kepler

‘It’s like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.’ – E. O. Wilson

‘OTT platforms have taken away the pressure that would plague films earlier… the pressure of box office, the number of screens it will be played in, what kind of stars it has or even the pressure of censorship… This is a really big deal.’ – Shefali Shah

‘If the whole earth is infinitely small in comparison with the sphere of the stars, what is man compared with all these created beings!’ – Maimonides

‘I have spent so much time and so much energy making other people’s children stars.’ – Abby Lee Miller

‘I’m Jewish and my wife isn’t so right now we’re literally decorating a Christmas tree with Jewish stars draped around it.’ – Max Greenfield

‘When I became ‘The American Dream,’ they needed a hero down here. I had no money – I couldn’t buy a car without being tied under – but I had to have a Cadillac with blue stars on the hood no matter what it cost because just driving in it will set how they look at me and perceive this guy; they’ll know.’ – Dusty Rhodes

‘God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.’ – Alfred Adler

‘I think you should aim for the stars – and hopefully avoid ending up in the clouds! – Roxanne McKee’ – Roxanne McKee

‘The stars are matter, we’re matter, but it doesn’t matter.’ – Captain Beefheart

‘We are ‘nuclear waste’ from the fuel that makes stars shine; indeed, each of us contains atoms whose provenance can be traced back to thousands of different stars spread through our Milky Way.’ – Martin Rees

‘There are no Hollywood stars speaking out for the elderly. They’re forgotten, bewildered, and I don’t think it’s because people are cruel or don’t care. It’s because you don’t want to think about your own mortality. I think people don’t talk about it enough.’ – Ricky Gervais

‘Sure we’re in limos. We’re stars. How else is a star supposed to travel?’ – Deion Sanders

‘The stars played out the way they were supposed to play out, and I’m in the position I’m supposed to be in.’ – Tory Lanez

‘You have teenagers thinking they’re going to make millions as NBA stars when that’s not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.’ – Dean Kamen

‘For aspiring actors out there, I would say stay focused and don’t let anyone pull you away from your goals. Shoot for the stars so that if you ever fall short you can land on the clouds.’ – Ryan Guzman

‘You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.’ – Charles Kuralt

‘There’s more women stars in Nashville all the time. They’re proving they can do the job the same as a man.’ – Loretta Lynn

‘I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.’ – Kurt Cobain

‘Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can’t help but reach for the stars. It’s our nature. It’s our destiny.’ – Bill Frist

‘Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.’ – Annie Jump Cannon

‘I would never do ‘Dancing With The Stars,’ because it’s just not fair. I am too good of a dancer. It would be like LeBron James playing little league basketball.’ – Terry Crews

‘Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.’ – William Shakespeare

‘How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars – when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.’ – Thomas Aquinas

‘Never think you can’t do something. I definitely never thought I could write a book, and even after I started writing it, I was like, ‘Oh my God, how am I gonna write a book?’ Just set your sights high and reach for the stars. Go live your dreams, and never think you can’t.’ – Connor Franta

‘This dark brightness that falls from the stars.’ – Pierre Corneille

‘Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.’ – Victor Hugo

‘If it wasn’t for the stars, we would not be here.’ – Jocelyn Bell Burnell

‘Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.’ – Carl Schurz

‘The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.’ – Richard P. Feynman

‘Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us – many days, many nights of stars.’ – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

‘The thing I like about astronomy is being outside at night and seeing the stars in a dark sky. It makes you feel small.’ – Jimmy Walker

‘And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up on one of the blocks or, you know, when you step off of an airplane or when you hear the national anthem play, you know, it’s one of the greatest feelings in the world because you know that there are people at home who are supporting you and watching you.’ – Michael Phelps

”Little Night’ has layers of meaning. There’s something enchanted about night. All those heavenly bodies, shooting stars, the crescent moon, celestial phenomenon. Owls fly at night, and first kisses happen. Night is romantic. Alternately, darkness hides the worst of human behavior.’ – Luanne Rice

‘I mean astronomically, that one doesn’t even make sense. Because if you shoot for the moon, you’re not going to land on the stars. The moon is closer than all of the stars.’ – Logan Paul

‘In a film like ‘Kannathil Muthamittal,’ I can’t have a Rajnikanth or a Kamal Haasan. If you have a star, the expectation of the film is different. So, you cast according to the subject of the film. Some films are best done with stars because it gives you a base on which if you can get the correct performance, you can reach higher.’ – Mani Ratnam

‘I don’t know why. I’m fascinated with stars and space. I just love them.’ – Khoudia Diop

‘Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.’ – Beck

‘Fame should be left to the film stars.’ – Alexander McQueen

‘There are at least as many galaxies in our observable universe as there are stars in our galaxy.’ – Martin Rees

‘Go out tonight and look at the stars. And allow yourself to dream.’ – Rick Tumlinson

‘When Pakistan was carved out of India’s rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood’s Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.’ – Tariq Ali

‘Musicians play music because you love… I loved to play drums since I was five. It’s all I ever wanted to do. Rock stars, or as we call them, posers, guys who want to just look great, dress great. They’re not musicians; they’re looking for the fame.’ – Peter Criss

‘I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.’ – Carl Sagan

‘Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.’ – James Jeans

‘Chefs don’t become chefs just to earn stars – that’s not the goal.’ – Alain Ducasse

‘In 1949, when I was 2, my family moved from Yonkers, NY, to a development of brick houses in Elmont, a Long Island suburb of New York City. What I remember most about the house was the glider on our porch. I used to sit there evenings close to my father, Victor, as he talked about the moon and the stars. He taught me to dream big.’ – Susan Lucci

‘My connections and roots to this land of Australia – the sea, the reefs, the sky, the stars – come from a time and place that existed long before basketball was invented, and definitely long before the Boomers program was created.’ – Patty Mills

‘Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world’s most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.’ – Xavi

‘People think stars never have any problems or cares. That’s bull. Why would we show any more than one mask to the public. There’s a whole lotta things I’ve done that I don’t want to think about. But I bring it all right out when I need it for a role.’ – Vanity

‘Rock and roll’s relatively new, in the sense of the Fifties, Sixties, right? They invented the first sort of rock stars, and they took it to excess, and then the excess became bitter, tormented. Then it became okay to succeed.’ – Albert Hammond, Jr.

‘I can’t imagine anything more beautiful on this planet than looking up at the stars and seeing a kind of artificial star moving through the night sky.’ – Trevor Paglen

‘Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes – every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘Comedians get jokes offered to them, rock stars get women and underwear thrown onstage, and I get guys that want to take me fishing.’ – Les Claypool

‘A starry sky is equally interesting to a scientist, a mystic, an ethics scholar, and a poet. Looking at the stars, each experiences something different, and each sees his own picture.’ – Alija Izetbegovic

‘When we show you all these various pieces of content on the site, how frequently do you take the one that we present? And of the one you took, how frequently do you completely watch the whole series? And do you rate it, one to five stars? So if we presented it to you, and you watched it, and you rated it, that’s a big win.’ – Ted Sarandos

‘There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.’ – Vaclav Havel

‘I don’t believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.’ – Noel Coward

‘Most rules that you think are written in stone are just societal. You can change the game and really reach for the stars and make the world a better place.’ – Sebastian Thrun

‘You’ve got to have new stars and you need people to pass the torch to build those stars.’ – Ted DiBiase Sr.

‘The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.’ – Otto Weininger

‘There are movies where actors aren’t characters but movie stars, being cool beyond belief throughout the whole movie. That is what it is. And we reveal ourselves when we act, very often without noticing. But if I can manage to do a character without showing anything of myself, then that’s the ultimate goal for me. No leakage.’ – Christian Bale

‘Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they’re on a tour.’ – Neil Gaiman

‘I like to consider myself a star – a star, that when you look in the sky, it’s always there. And on a clear night… a shooting star comes by, and get a little thrill, and you make a little wish. You need both types of stars, the shooting and the constant stars. The heavens include them all.’ – James Belushi

‘I don’t want to be famous or recognizable. I don’t want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet… I’ve been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and see what their lives are like, and that’s just not something I want.’ – Sia

‘You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.’ – Thomas Traherne

‘I was only in second grade when the Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. The night of his launch – April 12, 1961 – I went out onto the front porch and stared up at the stars, trying to see his capsule passing overhead. Like millions of others, I was enthralled by the idea of space exploration and have been ever since.’ – Paul Allen

‘I’m not one of those stars that goes out and literally dresses to be photographed. I’m kind of a ‘what you see is what you get’ type of girl when I dress. I go for comfort above everything else.’ – Anne Hathaway

‘When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.’ – Tycho Brahe

‘In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.’ – Sam Kean

‘We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.’ – Bill Gates

‘Don’t keep reaching for the stars because you’ll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.’ – Jimmy Fallon

‘Events of human origin are uncertain, but all is regulated and governed by the incalculable power of God, inspiring us not through drunken fury nor by frantic movement, but through the influences of the stars.’ – Nostradamus

‘I like how TV used to be – ‘Boys from the Blackstuff’ and ‘Play for Today’, instead of ‘Stars in Your Eyes’ and ‘Celebrity Come Cook With Me’ or whatever. I hate all that stuff.’ – Stephen Graham

‘I believe in a lot of astrology. I believe in aliens… I look up into the stars and I imagine: ‘How self-important are we to think that we are the only life-form?” – Katy Perry

‘The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.’ – Francis Bacon

‘For some people, you know, Garrison Keillor, Rush Limbaugh, really the stars, they’ve got a passion. They eat, drink and breathe radio, and I’m not like that. I used to think I wanted to be. But I need to be away from it, too, and that’s the difference, I think.’ – Tom Bodett

‘Basically, all my life I’d been told you can’t do that because you’re female. So I guess I just didn’t pay any attention. I just went ahead and did what I could and then, when the stars aligned, I was ready.’ – Shannon Lucid

‘My mother, Nancy Dickerson, was a reporter for CBS and NBC and the first female star of television news; my father, Wyatt Dickerson, was a successful businessman. Their parties, from the ’60s to the ’80s, attracted cabinet officials, movie stars, and presidents.’ – John Dickerson

‘The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom.’ – Betty White

‘I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.’ – Georgia O’Keeffe

‘When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we’ve downgraded Pluto but have discovered that other solar systems and stars are common. So life is probably quite prevalent.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.’ – e. e. cummings

‘Estimates are that at least 70 per cent of all stars are accompanied by planets, and since the latter can occur in systems rather than as individuals (think of our own solar system), the number of planets in the Milky Way galaxy is of order one trillion.’ – Seth Shostak

‘When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.’ – Vincent Van Gogh

‘You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we’re just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody.’ – Trey Parker

‘One of the great things about stargazing is that it’s immediately at hand for so many people. You know, you could get into scuba diving or bird watching, but the stars are always up there.’ – Tim Ferriss

‘Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair.’ – Francis of Assisi

‘The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.’ – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘The rock star is dying. And it’s a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.’ – Nick Cave

‘You reach for the stars and you work your butt off to achieve your dreams. If you fall short, you fall short, but you say you gave it your best.’ – Frank Vogel

”Love Don’t Let Me Down,’ which is the original title of ‘Country Strong,’ was just as difficult emotionally as ‘Tron’ was physically. I play a country singer that basically gets on tour with Gwyneth Paltrow’s character, who is one of the biggest country stars out there, and she’s fallen down too many times and it’s an intense emotional story.’ – Garrett Hedlund

‘As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner’s medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it’s three-Michelin’s stars, there’s no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.’ – Gordon Ramsay

‘With ‘The Expendables,’ you have such a brilliant mess of the greatest action stars of all time, so you’re in for the ride with those people.’ – Jason Statham

‘I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.’ – Keanu Reeves

‘I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in.’ – Mort Walker

‘I get the greatest feeling when I’m singing. It’s other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you’re holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea.’ – Cyndi Lauper

‘Once a star dies, it’s gone forever. There are no new stars to take its place. Eventually, there will be no stars, and the universe will turn black. That really will be the end.’ – Jocelyn Bell Burnell

‘Back when I used to struggle with how I could define myself in the film business, I knew that I’d always remain true to myself and what I wanted to accomplish. The style of action I showcase is quite different from other stars we usually see, but I’m remaining true to myself, and hopefully this comes across.’ – Scott Adkins

‘Stars that shine bling in the moon night, might I find true love sqirreled away tonight?’ – Isabel Yosito

‘All children are born with stars in their eyes, and they are curious. It is important for teachers to be careful not to kill this curiosity. A lot can go wrong. Children can be teased, even by teachers.’ – May-Britt Moser

‘String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe – from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to the stately waltz of orbiting binary stars; from the primordial fireball of the big bang to the majestic swirl of heavenly galaxies – are reflections of one, grand physical principle, one master equation.’ – Brian Greene

‘Everybody, not just stars, should take up the responsibility of giving back to society. It doesn’t matter how much you give, but what really matters is if you are willing to give something.’ – Ali

‘I have learned that the biggest stars and the greatest players are the most humble ones, the ones who respect people the most.’ – Kylian Mbappe

‘See, the thing that bothers me with young actors, young actors of color specifically, is that they see movies and television, and they figure that’s all it is to it. They have no respect for the craft. They want to be, you know, movie stars or whatever. And I worry that we’re losing a certain quality, you know?’ – James Avery

‘I don’t worship crystals – but I love them. Like I love sunsets and stars. It’s just way easier to grab a dope crystal around your neck than it is to grab a star.’ – Spencer Pratt

‘My dad’s paternal grandparents were musically inclined. And I remember as a little kid going to visit them in their senior building, and they were, like, the stars of the building, especially hosting and performing in their senior talent show.’ – Aaron Lazar

‘Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don’t look like rock stars any more. They just look like regular dudes off the street.’ – Vince Neil

‘I get up, upload a video to YouTube, eat, sleep, and check all my social medias, eat again, sleep some more, watch ‘Dancing With The Stars’ and go to sleep for the night. Just your average teenage girl, give or take a decade.’ – Trisha Paytas

‘I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.’ – Marilyn Monroe

‘The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.’ – Richard Adams

‘I have marvelous dreams! I meet Buddha, I meet Jesus, I meet Mohammed. I constantly dream of space, stars and planets: we are the children of stardust.’ – Brian Blessed

‘They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don’t win many ball games.’ – Casey Stengel

‘It’s exciting to work with stars, but there is no reason to be nervous because in the initial stages of my career, I have worked with Akshay Kumar, Aishwarya Rai, Salman Khan… I have worked with these stars, so nervousness has gone out my system after that.’ – Aditya Roy Kapur

‘In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.’ – Gore Vidal

‘Living in Dallas, I root for the Mavericks and the Stars and the Cowboys, but I’ve always pulled for the Chicago Cubs. I enjoy watching them play.’ – Lee Trevino

‘As any opera fan knows, lawyers and judges do not fare well in most operas. Just consider the productions of ‘Andrea Chenier,’ ‘Aida, Norma,’ ‘Billy Budd,’ ‘Peter Grimes,’ ‘The Crucible,’ ‘Lost in the Stars,’ ‘The Marriage of Figaro,’ ‘The Makropulos Case’ and Wagner’s ‘Ring’ cycle. Around 1810, the theme of justice emerged in opera.’ – Karen DeCrow

‘We gazed dreamily at the Milky Way and once in a while caught some shooting stars. Times like those gave me the opportunity to wonder and ask all those very basic questions. That sense of awe for the heavens started there.’ – Kalpana Chawla

‘When I see someone in a military uniform I make it a point to approach them, shake their hand and say five words… ‘thank you for your service.’ ‘Stars Earn Stripes’ is a high energy, fun, action show, but at its heart it is all about those five words.’ – Mark Burnett

‘I’ve been invited to do ‘Dancing With the Stars’ three times, but Lifetime said no.’ – Abby Lee Miller

‘I went to see some voguing ballrooms and krump battles, and I was hypnotized by their body language. These guys, who are usually very poor, become stars onstage once a month in a ballroom or in a battle.’ – Gaspar Noe

‘In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘Everyone is entitled to reach for the stars.’ – Vikram Bhatt

‘I personally have dealt with any adversity in my life with humor. That’s why I told America to ‘Read my hips!’ on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ or was happy to play along with Jason Alexander and Jerry Seinfeld in the great restaurant scene on ‘Seinfeld.” – Marlee Matlin

‘It doesn’t occur to me that I don’t drive a cool car until I hang out with Jon Hamm, who picks me up in what looks like a Transformer, and I think, ‘Oh, that’s what movie stars are driving. I guess I’m not a movie star.” – Bill Hader

‘I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns.’ – Jules Massenet

‘I don’t know… Philly’s a little different. It’s a little bit more competitive. Everybody’s got something to prove. In Atlanta, you see stars every day walking down the street; it’s normal.’ – Lil Uzi Vert

‘I spent time at my grandfather Dino’s gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars.’ – Giada De Laurentiis

‘My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors.’ – Franklin Knight Lane

‘If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something – for example, knowing that elements in your body trace to exploded stars – I call that a spiritual reaction, speaking of awe and majesty, where words fail you.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘I’ve always been in love with the stars and view the cosmos as the ultimate adventure.’ – Emily Calandrelli

‘Trevor Horn has worked with some of the biggest stars there is. And he was happy to do a record with me. He’s worked with some amazing people, and then there’s little old me walking in.’ – Olly Murs

‘I feel there is a curse on rock stars.’ – Marc Bolan

‘Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.’ – Tom Robbins

‘Kiefer Sutherland is a crazy jerk on ’24,’ but you love him because he gets the job done. And I think that that goes for a lot of action stars, I mean Steven Segal is a jerk, but you want to watch him because, eventually, he’s a jerk who can beat up bad people.’ – Paul Scheer

‘I was never a singer; I can’t play any instruments; I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I didn’t have any template for what I was doing. I did what I did out of frustration and concern.’ – Patti Smith

‘God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.’ – William Lyon Phelps

‘As Real Madrid is a team of stars, Bale would fit perfectly.’ – Luka Modric

‘It’s rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn’t find that was true of my top super stars either.’ – Barbara Corcoran

‘I’m glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn’t spend the money today.’ – Carol Burnett

‘Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.’ – Fred Allen

‘Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?’ – Richard P. Feynman

‘The Creator of the seas, sands, and endless stars is reaching out to you this very day! He is offering the grand recipe for happiness, peace, and eternal life!’ – Dieter F. Uchtdorf

‘Stars arrive on their own timetable.’ – Cameron Crowe

‘I just had the absolute best luck in the world in terms of meeting The Young Bucks, and they might look like wild little rock stars who are irresponsible, but they are business geniuses. They set up the deal with Hot Topic, and they’re going to be the first 7-figure downside characters that New Japan Pro Wrestling has.’ – Cody Rhodes

‘It is greater than the stars – that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.’ – Kate Chopin

‘Not as many idol stars were acting back then, and I had to suffer a lot of criticisms. However, I still did my best because I did not want to miss the chances that I was given.’ – Ok Taec-yeon

‘My childhood bedroom – if childhood could be about ten years old – had a bed which was under windows which faced north. At about age 10, I started watching the stars just move through the night.’ – Vera Rubin

‘There is a lot of pressure on pop stars, and I think a lot of it is the pressure that we put on ourselves. In our minds, we build up these huge, huge standards that we think people want from us, and actually, when you break it down, people just want you to make music and perform to the best of your ability, but anxiety can stop you from doing that.’ – James Arthur

‘Yet there are film stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra who never allowed the mafia to dictate terms to them. But starlets like Monica Bedi used the mafia connection to win stardom and is now paying heavily.’ – Raza Murad

‘And there are no stars and that you’re never really sure who’s doing what and what voice is what and, you know what I mean? It’s supposed to be quite elusive.’ – Damon Albarn

‘More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise.’ – Nicolaus Copernicus

‘It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.’ – William Shakespeare

‘You want to have enough of a profile to be able to do all the work you can, but at the same time you want to have your own space. But there are a lot of actors who achieve it, a lot of movie stars even, people like Emily Watson and Cate Blanchett. They seem to be able to carry on with their lives and still produce wonderful, high-profile work.’ – Anne-Marie Duff

‘Honestly, at times, I still get bored. ‘Dancing with the Stars’ kept me busy, and that’s what I like. When I first started fighting, I was working two jobs, and I was still going to school at the same time while training. I’m meant to be a busy person.’ – Paige VanZant

‘I don’t think ‘Shooting Stars’ has ever successfully been replaced.’ – Bob Mortimer

‘I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.’ – Ann Voskamp

‘Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.’ – Vanna Bonta

‘Right at the same time I got my diagnosis I was also auditioning for ‘Dancing With The Stars.’ That was my dream since I was 7 years old. And then I had the chance to be on the show and I had this melanoma on my foot, so I didn’t tell anyone – even the producers – for a long time.’ – Witney Carson

‘The sky was clear – remarkably clear – and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.’ – Thomas Hardy

‘Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it.’ – Lukas Foss

‘If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?’ – Carl Sagan

‘His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.’ – Elias Canetti

‘I think now I get to create and inspire more young black girls to continue doing what they love and reach for the stars.’ – Marsai Martin

‘An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.’ – George Eliot

‘Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?’ – Lord Byron

‘I’m an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He’s somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.’ – Nicolas Cage

‘The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon… it sounds romantic, but it’s true – the visceral experience of motion, of moving through time on some amazing machine – a few cars touch on it, but not too many compared to motorcycles. I always felt that any motorcycle journey was special.’ – Antoine Predock

‘Early American music and early folk music, before the record became popular and before there were pop stars and before there were venues made to present music where people bought tickets, people played music in the community, and it was much more part of a fabric of everyday life. I call that music ‘root music.” – Jon Batiste

‘Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing.’ – Jami Gertz

‘I hang out with models, the biggest pop stars and, you know, really and honestly, I hate saying this, but none of them are achieving those body shapes by being healthy.’ – Lily Allen

‘Humans are natural-born scientists. When we’re born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.’ – Michio Kaku

‘I got to work with A-grade stars like Rajendra Kumar, Feroz Khan and Rajesh Khanna.’ – Mumtaz

‘It’s really important for women in the public eye to be open – these pop stars who don’t look, behave, speak like real women – that’s not fair on women. Being real, honest, authentic – too many women in the public eye are afraid to be authentic because they are afraid they will be judged.’ – Dawn O’Porter

‘I almost choke on my popcorn when I hear film stars, who walk on red carpets as much as the rest of us do on zebra crossings, criticising youngsters who crave fame.’ – Julie Burchill

‘The Saturn system is a rich planetary system. It offers mystery, scientific insight, and obviously splendour beyond compare, and the investigation of this system has enormous cosmic reach… just studying the rings alone, we stand to learn a lot about the discs of stars and gas that we call the spiral galaxies.’ – Carolyn Porco

‘You often see lifestyle over substance in L.A. Some rock stars dress up like they’re going to play a gig when they’re just going to the 7-Eleven store on a Tuesday night.’ – Joe Bonamassa

‘During the first couple of years of ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ I would go to Jack in the Box in my ball gown after the shows and get the Taco Nachos with cheese as my reward.’ – Carrie Ann Inaba

‘When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions.’ – Mort Walker

‘Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.’ – Brian Tracy

‘I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, – and the stars through his soul.’ – Victor Hugo

‘I loathe rock stars. I am a music nerd, a fan, a follower… just like any fan of music might be. And although I have blood-relatives, a lot of times I feel closer to my audience than my true family, because at least my fans get what I’m doing, to a certain extent, whereas my family does not.’ – Phil Anselmo

‘Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.’ – Camille Paglia

‘I was a little girl who grew up idolizing musical-theatre stars.’ – Laura Benanti

‘The magnificent cosmos is a palace that has the sun and the moon as its lamps and the stars as its candles; time is like a rope or ribbon hung within it, on to which the Glorious Creator each year threads a new world.’ – Said Nursi

‘I have an obsession for quality. I work for my guests, not to obtain Michelin stars.’ – Alain Ducasse

‘In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.’ – John Burroughs

‘The best pop songs are the ones that show that person’s personality. It’s harder to do those singles because the stars, moon and sun have to align and the audience have to be ready, but it’s worth waiting for it.’ – MO

‘The reason why people are huge stars is nothing to do with acting. It’s the magic. Charisma is a word that’s used too often; it’s something special, and it’s what makes stars. It’s luck, and basically, it’s genes.’ – Shirley Eaton

‘People come to the stadium to forget their lives for 90 minutes, and it’s up to us to give them satisfaction; to get them out of their chairs and to fall asleep with stars in their eyes.’ – Kylian Mbappe

‘Astronomers can look back in time. We can look at things as they used to be. We have an idea there was a Big Bang explosion 13.7 billion years ago. We have a story of how galaxies and stars were made. It’s an amazing story.’ – John C. Mather

‘There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.’ – Barack Obama

‘Space has always fascinated me. As a young boy looking up at the stars, I found it impossible to resist thinking what was out there and if I ever would experience space first-hand.’ – Richard Branson

‘Tamil people are generally considered very intelligent. But there, politics runs in a different way. Movie stars have a larger-than-life image in Tamil Nadu, and people vote for that image.’ – Jaggi Vasudev

‘What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.’ – Marilyn Monroe

‘Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.’ – Gustave Flaubert

‘Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

‘I’ve been talking to certain wrestlers on the phone lately, and certain female wrestlers that were huge stars ten years ago, and the first thing I ask them is ‘do you still want to work?’ Do they want to talk, or do they want to wrestle or do something else in the business?’ – Hulk Hogan

‘As a youngster, when I was active in church, I had a lot of fun choosing and hanging massive stars and making the cribs. I was also very involved in the Christmas plays, though not as an actor, but I took joy in setting up the props.’ – Nivin Pauly

‘I always believe shooting for the stars, and at the very least, you can land on the moon.’ – Lana

‘A lot of people who are ‘social media’ stars aren’t considered to be ‘real’ stars, and people underestimate the amount of work it takes to edit and upload a video every single day and document your life like that.’ – Shawn Mendes

‘In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York!’ – Jules Verne

‘The universe is very big – there’s about 100,000 million galaxies in the universe, so that means an awful lot of stars. And some of them, I’m pretty certain, will have planets where there was life, is life, or maybe will be life. I don’t believe we’re alone.’ – Jocelyn Bell Burnell

‘Women were real box office stars in the ’40s, more so than men. People loved to see women’s films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system.’ – Gwyneth Paltrow

‘That’s why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.’ – Bud Abbott

‘If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.’ – John B. S. Haldane

‘Buddy Holly had something very different from the other great early rock n’ roll stars, whether it was Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Bo Diddley. He came across as so ordinary, as such a nerd. You know, he was a big guy, and he carried a gun. He was anything but a nerd.’ – Greil Marcus

‘I’m not good-looking enough, and I don’t have the personality it takes to play myself like the big box-office stars.’ – Van Heflin

‘There could be shadow galaxies, shadow stars, and even shadow people.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘I would prefer to stay up and watch the stars than sleep.’ – Vera Rubin

‘The Himalayas make you insignificant. When you are trekking in the mountains of the Himalayas and finally you reach the top exhausted and completely wiped out; you look down and you see nothing. For hundreds of miles you see just hills, mountains and mist; when you look up from your sleeping bag at night you can see just stars.’ – Victor Banerjee

‘The profoundly ‘atomic’ character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men.’ – Clint Eastwood

‘Look, all the big stars: Do you think that Brad and Angelina randomly got caught on the beach in Africa in the middle of nowhere where they reveal they’re dating? No! These are strategic moves.’ – Spencer Pratt

‘You’ve gotta understand that with branding and the way things are promoted, in our day and age, your older movie stars are not reachable or accessible because they’re not a part of the whole social media world.’ – Kevin Hart

‘It’s funny, because there are so many stereotypes out there about actors and movie stars in general, but I’ve had a great opportunity to meet a lot of them, and maybe it’s just because they don’t behave that way around me, but I rarely see that kind of abuse of power.’ – Ryan Reynolds

‘What is interesting, as well, is how much power homicide detectives have and how much respect. They are kind of rock stars, especially in New York. There are not that many of them.’ – Theo James

‘Throughout Manchester United’s history, we always come up with answers to problems. Big stars come and go, but still, the team keep producing the same performances.’ – Park Ji-sung

‘I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I was having. You’re 20 years old and you’re hanging out with rock stars and going to fabulous parties, and then you talk about it!’ – Daisy Fuentes

‘I’ve read that a naked eye can see six thousand stars in the hundred billion galaxies, but I couldn’t believe it, what with the sky white with starlight. I saw a million stars with one eye and two million with both.’ – William Least Heat-Moon

‘Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.’ – Ben Jonson

‘You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.’ – Wilt Chamberlain

‘If Romeo can do ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ anything is possible.’ – Romeo Miller

‘I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars – and, of course, the planets.’ – Dick Cavett

‘Undoubtedly, there are a number of well-developed, mainly female, stars helping Miss Taylor to hold the film industry together: Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, etc. But such an insistence on cheesecake smells of bankruptcy.’ – Patrick Kavanagh

‘What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars.’ – Courtney Love

‘I have a romantic vision of the beautiful delineation between TV and film that existed for so many years. I romanticize the studio system and movie stars as a whole, but obviously that’s just anachronistic and probably a non-reality.’ – Chris Pine

‘I’m not really enamored by movie stars.’ – Frank Grillo

‘The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren’t this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who’s rippled with muscles.’ – Jack Huston

‘My life has been a happy accident. Anybody who succeeds in anything should count their lucky stars, because that’s the biggest element. It’s not hard work; it’s not necessarily talent.’ – Terry Wogan

‘At the extreme temperature occurring in the stars, matter can only survive in its most dissociated states. Only simple bodies exist on these incandescent stars.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘There’s nothing wrong with shooting for the stars.’ – Justin Timberlake

‘I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don’t dream I will make it, I won’t even get close.’ – Henry J. Kaiser

‘Promoting a stock is like making a movie. You’ve got to have stars, props, and a good script.’ – Robert Friedland

‘The James Webb Space Telescope was specifically designed to see the first stars and galaxies that were formed in the universe. So we’re gonna see the snapshot of when stars started. When galaxies started. The very first moments of the universe. And my bet? There’s gonna be some big surprises.’ – John M. Grunsfeld

‘Drag is pastiche and parody and satire. Drag queens are never meant to be stars. We make fun of stars. Drag queens are the people that ‘point’ at the star.’ – Trixie Mattel

‘I’ve never really been that into cars. Maybe I just thought that’s what pop stars do. They buy flash cars. I was just playing it up a bit, being flash.’ – Chesney Hawkes

‘We live inside our universe and cannot get a bird’s-eye view of it from outside. And we cannot even see all of our universe. Distant parts of it are expanding away from us so fast that they are invisible; they go faster than the speed of light. Having bigger telescopes to see fainter stars will not help us here: invisible is truly invisible.’ – Jocelyn Bell Burnell

‘I had a normal life; we didn’t meet movie stars. We lived in Texas where you had rollerskates, and if you got a bicycle, that was a very big gift.’ – Debbie Reynolds

‘The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It’s fine to be a pop star. ‘Oh, it’s great, lots of fun, aren’t they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!” – Brian Eno

‘My hand still shakes when I sign autographs. I still go and sit in the movies like everyone else and look up there and go ‘God! Movie stars! Wow!’ And I’m in this business. I walk out there just fascinated, and I always want to stay like that. I’m just a little kid going to these movies, and I don’t ever want to change.’ – Kim Basinger

‘There was just nothing as interesting in my life as watching the stars every night.’ – Vera Rubin

‘All of us ’60s pop stars came from old cities which had a jazz club, a folk club, a coffee house, and an art school.’ – Donovan

‘It’s good for Brazilian football to have idols, stars, big stars coming back to Brazilian clubs. The tournaments become much better, more interesting. Ze Roberto, Juninho Pernambucano, Ronaldinho Gaucho, and other players who have returned to Brazil strengthen the league and improve the tournaments.’ – Neymar

‘I create stars.’ – Abby Lee Miller

‘Ronda Rousey is a groundbreaker. She is one who charts through territory that has never been explored before and is one of the biggest sports stars in the world, male or female.’ – Paul Heyman

‘The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.’ – Dennis Banks

‘The stars that have most glory have no rest.’ – Samuel Daniel

‘I used to play too with a boy who played a saxophone. We didn’t play no blues, we’d play a lot of love songs – ‘Stardust’, ‘Blue Moon’, ‘Out Cold Again’, ‘Sophisticated Lady’, ‘Stars Fell On Alabama’, a lot of different stuff.’ – David Edwards

‘Not taboo – it’s just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd – they’re movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.’ – Ang Lee

‘Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There may not be uke stars in popular culture, but there are certainly pop stars that play uke – George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Taylor Swift, Train, and Paul McCartney.’ – Jake Shimabukuro

‘There’s a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I’m not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I’m talking about whole species becoming extinct, asteroids hitting planets, black holes gobbling up stars.’ – Barbara Ehrenreich

‘I’ll go out at night and look up at the stars and think, ‘How ridiculously inconsequential I am in the scheme of things.” – David Hewlett

‘The reality is that we know that this universe, that our galaxy, has billions of stars. We know that stars have planets. So the likelihood that there is life somewhere else to me is just absolutely there.’ – Mae Jemison

‘We’re in a celebrity culture, and when I turn on the news today I hear about Lindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods and Paris Hilton and the Kardashian sisters and ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ one thing after another, Kate Gosselin’s new body.’ – Philip Yancey

‘The Hubble Telescope can see the farthest galaxies. The Webb Telescope will see the farthest stars.’ – Heidi Hammel

‘When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.’ – Charles A. Beard

‘The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief… that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.’ – Walter Lippmann

‘The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars.’ – Paul Newman

‘When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.’ – Russell Lynes

‘Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today’s starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses.’ – Rita Hayworth

‘Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle.’ – Victor Mature

‘America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.’ – Harold Rosenberg

‘Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.’ – Arthur Koestler

‘I’m a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.’ – Donald Trump

‘We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.’ – Bette Davis

‘Rather than have it the principal thing in my son’s mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.’ – Thomas Arnold

‘What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.’ – Shana Alexander

‘It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.’ – Meg Ryan

‘The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.’ – Alan Keyes

‘Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out.’ – Brooke Burke

‘I keep getting these extraordinary letteres, really weird ones from American sports stars – I’ve always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you’re single I want to meet you for a drink.’ – Elizabeth Hurley

‘Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment.’ – Liv Tyler

‘Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance.’ – Paul Martin

‘Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that’s how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren’t, it was all just a part of my everyday life.’ – Anjelica Huston

‘Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren’t really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names – the products of a good publicity department.’ – Ann Sothern

‘Of all the stars whom I worked with, I think Steve knew better what worked for him on the screen than any other. He had such a sense of what he could register, and that helped a lot in terms of shaping the character and the script.’ – Robert Wise

‘At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now, six centuries later, they are looking at the stars again, waiting to conquer them.’ – Slobodan Milosevic

‘I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do… But I absolutely couldn’t identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars.’ – David M. Brown

‘I think you should make more movies, more musicals. I think the public deserves that. I think this country deserves to be able to get out and foster that talent. Give them an opportunity to become stars. I think the whole idea is wonderful.’ – Donald O’Connor

‘I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly – or ever – gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe.’ – Brian Greene

‘What I’d like to get across is try your best to be yourself. I realize there are those who are much further along than you are; there are stars, but learn to be who you are and to play yourself. Be confident in that fact.’ – Jerome Richardson

‘It is my hope that during my brief passage through this universe, that I may share with you the joy of hearing the music of the stars… knowing that the composer was from a distant place and the songs were written eons ago, which now fall gently on this place for all to hear.’ – Richard Baker

‘You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don’t have that.’ – Mark Hamill

‘A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.’ – Loretta Young

‘You know what shows today are missing? Stars.’ – Aaron Spelling

‘We had to leave Australia to become international stars.’ – Barry Gibb

‘Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.’ – Peter Weir

‘Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way, you’re ahead of the game.’ – Charlotte Ross

‘Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people.’ – Bud Selig

‘We can’t manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can’t start and stop ice ages, and we can’t experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs.’ – Jared Diamond

‘I’m a character actress, plain and simple… Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers – actors work, and then they don’t work, and then they work again.’ – Frances McDormand

‘Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.’ – Georg Trakl

‘Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.’ – Georg Trakl

‘We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn’t know any of the stars from the other studios.’ – Olivia De Havilland

‘You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn’t lose a man. They all made the switch. That’s where the great talent is.’ – Ernst Lubitsch

‘It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa.’ – Dirk Benedict

‘The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.’ – Dirk Benedict

‘You know, they just don’t make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it’s sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the giants of the past.’ – Tom Atkins

‘We live in a time of conflict – external and internal – when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.’ – Charlie Dent

‘The problem is that they are all stars at Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well.’ – Diego Maradona

‘You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock ‘n roll stars.’ – James Daly

‘Rock stars are incredibly energizing to me.’ – James Daly

‘Business people have been made into these rock stars because they’ve made a lot of money.’ – James Daly

‘I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars.’ – Joshua Chamberlain

‘Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.’ – Ralph Allen

‘I’m big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you’re big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood.’ – Brion James

‘I did seven indies because the independent market used to be a lot better before all the stars were doing independents. As a beginning actor, that’s where you started.’ – Josh Holloway

‘Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.’ – Barney Oliver

‘The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.’ – Barney Oliver

‘The most exciting thing for all of us is movies and movie stars.’ – Babyface

‘As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.’ – Major Taylor

‘We’ve had some really good guest stars. But I have to go with Alec Baldwin as my favorite. He is so neat and such a movie star. He’s handsome and quirky. I was in heaven the week he was on the set.’ – Nikki Cox

‘A lot of stars don’t have a sense of humor.’ – Kathy Griffin

‘Most movie stars don’t change their look at all.’ – Kelly Lynch

‘We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.’ – Ruth St. Denis

‘I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop.’ – Ruth St. Denis

‘Well you’re talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.’ – Mark Rydell

‘I’m 5 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn’t mind that I was taller than they – George Raft and John Garfield.’ – Marie Windsor

‘There were no bigger stars in the new evangelism than the Bakkers.’ – Kathie Lee Gifford

’15 years later, it’s all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it’s the cast of Friends or That ’70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff.’ – Anthony Michael Hall

‘You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.’ – Anthony Michael Hall

‘That’s another thing about today’s stars that makes me glad that I’m not doing it any more. The stars come with ten people all around them. I don’t know how you ever make any personal contact with them.’ – Julie Harris

‘It all depended on the cut. Some of them were really on the ship. Some were really on the set. Like if they had the stars for a week, the stars coming off, that was usually on the set, except if we were on location for that particular show.’ – Gavin MacLeod

‘I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.’ – Jackie Collins

‘The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren’t really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first.’ – Joel Coen

‘Other kinds of movie stars, it’s a different thing, they bring their persona to the part and that’s what people like to see, and they are not really transforming in terms of their character.’ – Joel Coen

‘Rookies are also coming in from college programs as big stars, whereas when we came in, we were just happy to be there. We were happy to be playing in a big gym, to be on television, to be playing in America.’ – Sue Wicks

‘The objects that are of moderate energy, like our sun or most of the stars that we see in the night sky with the naked eye, are objects in which relatively moderate energy processes are taking place.’ – Claude Nicollier

‘It’s the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.’ – Mickey Rourke

‘If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.’ – Guillermo Cabrera Infante

‘Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing – which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.’ – Skitch Henderson

‘In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature.’ – Alexander Walker

‘American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don’t know why.’ – Vincente Minnelli

‘I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.’ – Jacqueline Cochran

‘For example, some stars put out large amounts of energy in the infrared part of the spectrum, so that this can produce a different relative magnitude rating than using light energy from the middle of the spectrum.’ – Charles Francis Richter

‘Our friends have nothing to do with the business. Some of our closest friends in Florida are not stars.’ – Kelly Preston

‘For me the ideal date would be to drink wine in the backyard under the stars, listen to music and just talk. Then we’d eat steak and, later, dessert. If all went as planned, we’d save some of the dessert and play with it while making out.’ – Karen McDougal

‘I wouldn’t say pop stars hit on me – that’s just stuff the papers make up.’ – Cat Deeley

‘I would say that one of the things that we are proud of is that we are attracting very interesting guest stars. One is Tyne Daly, who has done a wonderful job.’ – Michael Biehn

‘But Hale’s warning the President about going to Dallas was that there was great infighting among the members of the Democratic party and the Democratic stars in the state and he didn’t want the President to become involved in a factional disagreement.’ – Lindy Boggs

‘Doing that, then doing a lot of theater, which I love. Doing guest stars, did two independent films that are going around to all these festivals. Both of them are going to be at the Lake Tahoe Film Festival.’ – Austin Peck

‘Well, we all start thinking we’re going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets.’ – George Murray

‘Well, I want to do The Music Man. I think it’s an amazing opportunity, but I think that they are probably looking at major movie stars right now, and I don’t blame them.’ – Gregory Harrison

‘But I think the image that’s thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.’ – Oscar Robertson

‘Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.’ – Oscar Robertson

‘During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky.’ – Paul Nurse

‘A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer’s name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything.’ – Lee Grant

‘Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value.’ – Peter Bart

‘Entertainers, athletes, and stars started giving me support.’ – Ryan White

‘Michael worked one day. Everybody was a little freaked out and nervous because he’s a really big star. We were already working with really big stars, but Michael is Michael.’ – Barry Sonnenfeld

‘This is the place to see the stars – Hollywood Bowl.’ – Mahalia Jackson

‘There’s this unspoken club where you say to each other: Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldn’t be interested. That includes movie stars and politicians.’ – Margot Kidder

‘I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.’ – Maurice Gibb

‘I like being out front, doing what I do, but then I also like playing in a band too. I’d like to do stuff like I did with Deee-lite. I went out and played with them and they were the stars, that was cool.’ – Bootsy Collins

‘You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars.’ – Murray Gell-Mann

‘I question the value of stars. I think they’re overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.’ – Elia Kazan

‘I work with a lot of movie stars.’ – Norman Jewison

‘Today the salaries of stars are astronomical in comparison with the 20’s, but the high cost of today’s living and taxes takes a huge bite out of these salaries.’ – Pola Negri

‘Stars didn’t have to worry as they were on long term contracts and were able to enjoy their vacations without worrying about tomorrow. Few had financial worries due to large incomes and little taxes.’ – Pola Negri

‘Law students have taken over Hollywood. To them it’s all about making money. They know people want to see what they’ve seen before. Also, remakes are places to showcase the new stars of tomorrow.’ – Tobe Hooper

‘You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented.’ – John Turturro

‘I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning’s line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which she found beyond expression.’ – Marie Corelli

‘When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile.’ – Charles Frohman

‘I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.’ – Maria Mitchell

‘In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program.’ – Poul Anderson

‘I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else.’ – Alan Ladd

‘Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and a yellow moon, appearing suddenly and silently from nowhere in particular, came to keep them company and listen to their talk.’ – Kenneth Grahame

‘All these child stars grow up and they’re knockin’ over banks and getting prostitutes. I’m, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap.’ – Dustin Diamond

‘You’ve got Corey Feldman doing his thing, and the problem is, they’re trying to be pop stars. You can’t compare Salty to any of the other actors out there playing music.’ – Dustin Diamond

‘After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.’ – John Polkinghorne

‘Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that’s not necessarily a healthy competition.’ – Edwin Starr

‘And I tell my audience, you know, give the real stars a round of applause. Because without them I’m nobody. So I learned so much from people like that.’ – Little Milton

‘I learned a lot about handling fans from established stars.’ – Chevy Chase

‘Television doesn’t make stars. It’s the written media, the press, that makes stars.’ – Chevy Chase

‘I can’t say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I’ve learned from.’ – Jenna Elfman

‘You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.’ – George Herman

‘I think people connect better with TV. stars over film stars.’ – Gil Gerard

‘With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people’s self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.’ – George Michael

‘I don’t know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond.’ – Val Guest

‘I really don’t care what movie stars have to say about life.’ – Morley Safer

‘The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed.’ – Morley Safer

‘The stars handle it very graciously. They let you know. They know how to play the game.’ – Mary Hart

‘There are so many venues in which stars are exposed today, that we just know much more and the studios don’t have the control over stars like they used to, in the 30s, 40s, and 50s.’ – Mary Hart

‘There have been many cases in which stars have come to us first to break the news because they knew the pressure was on. They wanted to have it on the air so that they could give their honest evaluation of the situation.’ – Mary Hart

‘We see the people that have got stars in their eyes, but if you’ve really got what it takes, you can get from, say the beginnings, to the top in about five years.’ – Trisha Goddard

‘When you look at what we spend on entertainment, whether it’s on CDs, music, DVDs, there is so much money invested in that, people want to know a little more about the stars they’re paying to see or hear.’ – Mary Hart

‘While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.’ – Jerry B. Jenkins

‘An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.’ – Kurt Masur

‘In September, I left the show. We were going through discussions and negotiations, and I had been on the show for about 11 years, and there were some things that I was asking for that I didn’t feel were the moon or the stars.’ – Hunter Tylo

‘A lot of country pubs will receive Michelin stars.’ – Heston Blumenthal

‘I suppose young people think football is glamorous – soccer – it’s big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.’ – Bryan Ferry

‘You’d be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work.’ – Taylor Hackford

‘Kill Rock Stars allowed me to put out a real genuine rock ‘n’ roll record.’ – Ronnie Spector

‘Movie stars are supposed to be healthy. They’re kept happy and nutritionally together.’ – Courtney Love

‘There are certain stars who are not actors. I don’t want to be that type.’ – Natalie Wood

‘From what I’ve been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better.’ – Joe Eszterhas

‘Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock’n’roll stars.’ – Joe Eszterhas

‘I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.’ – David McCullough

‘I’ve built a solid career there, but America’s ten times the size. Now that we’re onto the third record, I feel like the stars have aligned and American audiences are embracing my music even more.’ – Chantal Kreviazuk

‘I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.’ – Natalie Wood

‘Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?’ – Evan Dando

‘I’ve always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.’ – Quentin Tarantino

‘Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They’re not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavoury.’ – Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

‘I don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.’ – Anthony Hopkins

‘The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.’ – Frank Shorter

‘If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.’ – Roger Ebert

‘We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn’t have to be white, and the other one doesn’t have to be the ethnic sidekick. We’re way over that. And I think it’s happening in society, too.’ – Roger Ebert

‘Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more.’ – Sharon Stone

‘We showed the industry that female artists could attract the same audiences as the big male stars.’ – Sarah McLachlan

‘I’ve been with certain stars; some are caring and pay attention to their fans and to their fellow performers and some are too busy. Elvis never seemed too busy.’ – Minnie Pearl

‘I can’t even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars.’ – Jenny McCarthy

‘I gave out stars whenever an appropriate situation presented itself.’ – Willie Stargell

‘My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.’ – Carol Burnett

‘I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on… It’s perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.’ – Poul Anderson

‘I mean, I’ve sold all these scripts and nothing’s been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don’t get made.’ – Bruce Vilanch

‘The real big stars only keep this up for about seven years.’ – Ruud van Nistelrooy

‘There’s something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too.’ – Gwyneth Paltrow

‘Even rock stars are entitled to privacy.’ – Michael Novak

‘As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless – and absolutely essential.’ – William Goldman

‘There are stars out there who would die to have this much exposure.’ – Clay Aiken

‘I think people of lesser talent will become stars.’ – Howard Stern

‘Movie stars have careers – actors work, and then they don’t work, and then they work again.’ – Frances McDormand

‘Don’t you see what’s at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.’ – Walter Reisch

‘Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty… embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.’ – Doris Lessing

‘The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.’ – Walter Reisch

‘I really believe that’s one of the many reasons that God had put me right in the middle of the Backstreet Boys. There are so many stars today that don’t realize the impact they have on young people. Being a superstar is great, as long as you can be a positive role model.’ – Brian Littrell

‘Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.’ – A. R. Ammons

‘I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.’ – Josiah Royce

‘The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.’ – Georg Buchner

‘I’m getting paid to do what I got in trouble for in the 7th grade. I absolutely love what I do and thank my lucky stars for twenty-five years of full-time employment in this business.’ – Rob Paulsen

‘Mystery makes movie stars! If you see someone on the cover of the weeklies all the time, why would you want to pay to see them in a movie?’ – Sophia Bush

‘I don’t want my president to be a TV star. You don’t have to be on television every minute of every day – you’re the president, not a rerun of ‘Law & Order’. TV stars are too worried bout being popular and too concerned about being renewed.’ – Bill Maher

‘I feel like I’m nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them.’ – Bindi Irwin

‘I’m trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my audience and create a legacy that outlives me. There are so many other ways I want to reach women besides doing a talk show.’ – Tyra Banks

‘I consciously decided not to be a ‘London’ actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.’ – Eddie Marsan

‘The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wasn’t this amazing amount of magazines and information about them.’ – George Clooney

‘It was this feeling the whole time like I shouldn’t be here among all these stars and professionals. I was trying to keep my distance because I wanted to watch everyone. But they want you to feel at home and be part of it, and it became normal very quickly.’ – Evanna Lynch

‘We partied with the royal rich people, and we felt like rock stars. We drank all the whiskey in the place.’ – Charles Kelley

‘Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.’ – Thomas Friedman

‘My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme’s ‘More Than Words’ at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.’ – Ed Helms

‘I think it’s particularly fun not being a full-time showbiz reporter because you still have the ‘Oh, wow!’ factor when you go out on the red carpet and there are these big stars that are standing there. But if you’re doing this day in and day out, it becomes a little blase.’ – Daryn Kagan

‘At the moment there are some England players who are the stars of their club teams, but not for their country. It’s difficult to explain.’ – Diego Maradona

‘If it wasn’t for KISS, there would be no Guns N’ Roses. Bands like that made Guns N’ Roses. We were five guys with five personalities and five different influences. The stars were aligned for us.’ – Steven Adler

‘All my favorite stars, my family and my friends are here. I’m having the happiest birthday that an 18-year-old girl could ever have.’ – Brandy Norwood

‘Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the ‘Times’ and ‘The New Yorker’ manage to feed and clothe their families without costing their companies a million bucks a month, and they produce a great deal more valuable reporting and analysis than the network news stars do.’ – Eric Alterman

‘It’s not really like you have a thing like a supermodel anymore. It’s more of a word than a real existence. I think, also, looking at it from a designer’s point of view, at one point maybe they felt the stars took too much attention away from the clothes.’ – Carmen Kass

‘If I thought of myself as a movie star, I’d be an idiot. I don’t know anyone who thinks like that. I don’t even know movie stars who think like that.’ – Jonny Lee Miller

‘There are a lot of stars I’ve worked with – big stars – who, when they walk on set, the energy just changes.’ – Kathleen Robertson

‘My first dance ever on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ was to ‘Let’s Hear it for the Boy.” – Julianne Hough

‘There are a ton of A-list stars I’d love to dress – fashionistas like Keira Knightley and Scarlett Johansson. Also, Cate Blanchett would be fun and fabulous. My picks vary by the day and how I’m feeling. But, as a new, young designer, I’m open to working with everyone!’ – Christian Siriano

‘The public’s got it right, a lot of NBA stars are arrogant and like to spend lots of money and have lots of girlfriends and all that.’ – Andrew Bogut

‘I’ve completely changed the way I eat since doing ‘Dancing With The Stars.” – Kelly Osbourne

‘One of the tricky things about running a TV show is that you just never know how good the guest stars you cast on a weekly basis, how good they’re going to be in the episode. Sometimes they surprise you in good ways and sometimes they surprise you in disappointing ways.’ – Shawn Ryan

‘I’m attracted to working with comedians because they don’t have that stars’ idea of what a hero should be. The downside is they’re always addressing the camera too much.’ – Michel Gondry

‘For the past two years, President Obama has promised our children the moon, stars, rainbows, unicorns and universal health care for all. But the White House Santa’s cradle-to-grave entitlement mandates are a spectacularly predictable bust.’ – Michelle Malkin

‘A lot of people don’t know this, but when ‘Dancing with the Stars’ first asked me to be on the show, I said no, because I wanted to act and to be taken seriously.’ – Julianne Hough

‘Fortunately, right now ‘entrepreneurship’ is one of the business world’s biggest buzz words and so many young people in our country are looking up to this new generation of CEO’s as their modern day rock stars. Whenever you have that effect, it makes the job of promoting entrepreneurship much easier.’ – Daymond John

‘When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you’re a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can’t drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!’ – Gabrielle Union

‘I’m very close to my family. Not like these big stars – not mentioning any names – who lose the plot and don’t know who they are.’ – Jennifer Ellison

‘I think a lot of ladies get quite scared about people like me, ‘rock stars’, and it can be hard to meet the right sort of person.’ – Jay Kay

‘There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the papers.’ – Jean-Claude Van Damme

‘You’d see those movie stars on the screen, and say, ‘I want to be that guy.” – Dylan McDermott

‘I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.’ – Bryan Adams

‘We’ve always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.’ – Carl Hiaasen

‘Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that’s wonderful. But if the acting doesn’t work, fine. I’ll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn’t work, fine. I’ve got a lot of other stuff.’ – Carl Lewis

‘How many new rock stars have come around that have anything to say at all? Guys where you even want to know what they’re thinking? Are they thinking? Where did it go astray?’ – Chris Robinson

‘There are certain storylines I shouldn’t have done, there are certain actors I shouldn’t have cast – guest stars, I mean.’ – Marc Cherry

‘When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn’t go beyond that aspiration at that point.’ – Anna Sui

‘I wanted to be a designer since I was a kid, and I was always attracted to the way rock stars dressed and the way their girlfriends dressed. I always thought that they were the most interesting people.’ – Anna Sui

‘I just love the way the ’60s rock stars put themselves together, because they were like dandies and peacocks. They really lived out their fantasies – and dressed their fantasies.’ – Anna Sui

‘You know, for myself, my personal journey has been a very fortunate one and I would say to people it’s like the stars lined up and the skies opened up and the sun shined and I met the right people – was at the right time. And, most importantly, you know I love what I do.’ – Phillip Lim

‘I absolutely love what I do and thank my lucky stars for twenty-five years of full-time employment in this business.’ – Rob Paulsen

‘I want people to know that movie stars live a normal, middle-class life.’ – Shah Rukh Khan

‘Interviewing politicians and movie stars, you know what you’ll get. I like the people-stories better.’ – Shepard Smith

‘My homies that are around me never give me that ‘star pass.’ I’ve hung out with some stars who are playing basketball and everyone let’s them score all the baskets. Shooting pool, they let them make all the shots. My homies don’t let me get away with that.’ – Jamie Foxx

‘I’ve been obsessed with seeing life through music. My records, my relationship with records, my relationship with rock stars, everything that surrounds it, has been really one of the only ways that I ever started to understand the world.’ – Jeff Tweedy

‘My agent said, ‘Jerry, Dancing With the Stars – they want you on there.’ I said, ‘Ain’t no way. I’m not going to do that.’ Then he came back to me again, and he kept putting pressure on me. I said, ‘All right, I’ll give it a try.” – Jerry Rice

”Dancing With the Stars’ is so Middle America, and people take it so seriously.’ – David Alan Grier

‘Maybe we should have known that night in Denver that things that begin with plywood Greek columns and artificial smoke typically don’t end well. Maybe the Hollywood stars and the glamour blinded us a little: you thought it was the glare, some of us thought it was a halo.’ – Artur Davis

‘Stars are almost always people that want to make up for their own weaknesses by being loved by the public and I’m no exception to that.’ – George Michael

‘All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.’ – Al Pacino

‘Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.’ – Bono

‘I think the Earth and everything around it is connected – the sky and the planets and the stars and everything else we see as a mystery.’ – Marion Cotillard

‘We shouldn’t require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we’re all influenced by charisma. It’s hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it.’ – Julianne Moore

‘At the Golden Globes, they put all the bigger stars in the front; the movie stars in the front, TV actors in the back. But even as a movie star, you can be outseated by a bigger star in any given year. It’s kind of hilarious. You have to take it in stride.’ – Julianne Moore

‘I think there are rock stars within every subgenre, and for people who are obsessed with musical theater Sutton Foster and Audra MacDonald are like Beyonce to them. I’m sure the a cappella world has their own version of that, and that exists in every geeky subculture.’ – Anna Kendrick

‘Being from New York, there’s three things you know about Hollywood. You know about the Hollywood sign, Sunset Strip and Hollywood Boulevard with the stars.’ – Sean Combs

‘I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.’ – Lindsay Lohan

‘When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don’t think there are too many films coming out these days that we’re going to look at in the future and say, ‘This is one of the great ones.” – Lindsay Lohan

‘I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time.’ – Arnold Schwarzenegger

‘I don’t consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.’ – Greg Kinnear

‘My understanding is, the fans are so ravenous in Canada, they gnaw on the stars.’ – William Shatner

‘In the studios days, the public’s perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they’re no longer perceived as different – they’ve become human, so to speak.’ – Richard D. Zanuck

‘I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be ‘The Tree Of Life’ and ‘The Piano Teacher,’ which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.’ – Alicia Vikander

‘So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.’ – Jesse Jackson

‘There will always be rock stars, but I don’t know how much depth and longevity they’ll have.’ – Rick Springfield

‘When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard; you’re watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls.’ – Callie Khouri

‘I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It’s usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars.’ – Eddie Redmayne

‘I know I’m not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I’d rather be. So, yeah, that’s how I’d define myself. I want to do it right, and prove people wrong once and for all about the myth of child stars.’ – Daniel Radcliffe

‘There are stars who are proficiently paranoid enough to hide what they really think. I can’t.’ – Shirley MacLaine

‘I was never the ingenue, so hopefully that’ll make it easier to age and still work. I know a lot of actors who are really dissatisfied with where they’re at even though some of them are huge stars and I feel like, ‘Oh, my God, you’re at the top.’ Something interesting will come. It always does. I have faith.’ – Hope Davis

‘I have been an actor for most of my life. When I started out, I didn’t think about anything except what was good for me. Like many movie stars, I became all wrapped up in myself.’ – Kirk Douglas

‘I feel like movie stars don’t have many friends at all. They have acquaintances.’ – Milla Jovovich

”Hairspray’ was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the ‘Lion King’ circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck.’ – James Wolcott

‘What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.’ – James Wolcott

‘Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips – the dainty fidgets of Hardy’s plump digits, Orson Welles performing magic tricks with nimble dexterity, Jackie Gleason lofting a teacup to his lips as if he were Lady Bracknell – or through a fine set of twinkle-toes.’ – James Wolcott

‘It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?’ – Larry Hagman

‘The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye’s stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That’s reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That’s reminiscent of the Beatles.’ – Jack Antonoff

‘It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled ‘Big Band’ completed in 2005. It measures 13 feet x 9 feet. It has 18 nearly life size recognizable portraits of the biggest jazz stars that I knew and saw perform in the 1950s, ’60s, ’70s, ’80s and includes Wynton Marsalis.’ – LeRoy Neiman

‘I don’t want to be on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ anytime soon.’ – Victor Cruz

‘So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.’ – Francesca Annis

‘Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators.’ – Thomas Friedman

‘As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.’ – Guy Debord

‘America gets rock stars a little more than Canada does.’ – Sebastian Bach

‘When I did ‘Dancing with the Stars’ I did lose an awful lot of weight and I think at the time everybody was sort of alarmed by it. You can eat anything and it is still dropping off you when you are doing that amount of exercise.’ – Katherine Jenkins

‘Walking down the red carpet, suddenly I felt very special and different. All the flashlights from cameras and requesting voices from the media, the scene, it was just like what I remembered seeing on TV or a movie when I was a little girl – the scene only when movie stars appeared.’ – Yani Tseng

‘Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.’ – Brian Eno

‘I think the main reason a lot of child stars don’t make it is that it’s hard to see someone as cute and then all of a sudden see them as having more depth.’ – Christina Ricci

‘At the end of the day, there’s only a few major stars in the music business, and then there’s all these people that are aspiring to be that.’ – John Legend

‘I feel like something magical is going to happen, and I feel like all the stars have finally lined up perfectly for Angie Stone.’ – Angie Stone

‘When you record an album and it goes platinum… yeah, you’re in the studio and you work hard for months, but it’s not like your whole body hurts. Maybe you get a little hoarse and tired. But on ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ everything hurts.’ – Donny Osmond

‘I’m not such a big star. I am just a little planet. In Spain, people don’t put so much attention on the star system. But here in America, I can feel it. Mostly, people are very, very nice. But there are also a bunch of fanatics behind the stars.’ – Antonio Banderas

‘Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it’s romantic.’ – Benjamin Bratt

‘Every actor you learn from, take something from everyone – big actor or not. Whether they’re big movie stars or not doesn’t really matter.’ – Diane Kruger

‘I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order to be successful. And that machine is what is going to work for them – there’s tons of examples of pop stars who need that machine.’ – Macklemore

‘Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.’ – Rainn Wilson

‘When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and famous rock stars, politicians, people who have tremendous power and affluence. It’s not in my DNA, but certainly I have been exposed to it.’ – William Baldwin

‘It’s very difficult today for girls to become supermodels. There is a lot more competition, a lot of countries in the East have opened up so there are many more models than there were in the Nineties. Now they have to compete with famous actresses but also with, say, reality stars to be on the magazine covers.’ – Claudia Schiffer

‘Child stars have nothing. They have no choice.’ – Corey Feldman

‘I think I’m a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on ‘Dancing With the Stars.” – J. R. Martinez

‘I think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We’re just submerged.’ – Kristin Scott Thomas

‘To pursue a career in Hollywood you have to have a personality bypass. Look at the top 20 stars in the world – there’s probably only two actors among them. Hollywood’s not about you as an actor. It’s about your currency, what you ‘bring to the table’. And I’ve never been one to jump through hoops for anyone.’ – Robert Carlyle

‘I shoot for ‘Extra’ three times a week, and that’s great for Las Vegas, too. In addition to interviewing stars who are here for shows, parties and premieres, I’ll also get peoples’ reactions to different news items and topical gossip.’ – Holly Madison

‘My first film was with Cuba Gooding Jr, ‘The Fighting Temptations,’ and I had a little part here and there on little shows as guest stars. And I’ve taken acting classes.’ – NeNe Leakes

‘I started working at Bravo in 2005, when I was offered a job by Lauren Zalaznick, the network’s chairman. She encouraged me to start a blog. I wrote behind-the-scenes gossip about ‘Battle of the Network Reality Stars,’ the first show I took on as head of current programming.’ – Andy Cohen

‘I’ve never written a movie, I’m not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I’m like everyone else wandering around in a daze hoping I see movie stars. I write the novels that the movies are based on, and that feels like enough of a job for me.’ – Justin Cronin

‘I think many years ago I got on a bus in L.A. and drove around to see the stars’ homes, but that’s the extent of my direct experience in Hollywood.’ – Justin Cronin

‘While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It’s not a movement – movements are more sure of themselves. It’s a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.’ – Jerry Saltz

‘Whether it’s a blatant homage or unconscious mimicry, the Rolling Stones have permanently, indelibly influenced how rock stars look and behave.’ – Diablo Cody

‘I would make the movie industry more like the television industry. TV is more material driven. In TV, you can break new stars. TV can take more chances.’ – Stephen Chbosky

‘The dance community suddenly came alive with programs like ‘So You Think You Can Dance,’ ‘America’s Best Dance Crew’ and ‘Dancing With The Stars.” – Nigel Lythgoe

‘You put a movie star or a bunch of movie stars in a movie, it doesn’t mean people are gonna go see it. It’s been proven time and time again.’ – John Slattery

‘I’m very impatient, so I was like, ‘I want to be able to do whatever I want now.’ But even the biggest stars – you look back and they weren’t overnight.’ – Donald Glover

‘I write about nerds who go the extra mile and become rock stars.’ – Ben Mezrich

‘I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural, effortless style.’ – Vincent Cassel

‘There’s this misconception that comedy and music go together. They don’t. Comedians can’t compete with rock stars; they’re just not on the same level. Rock stars will always be cooler. They will always get more girls.’ – Michael Ian Black

‘Many comedic stars have tried to a do a ‘Night at the Museum’ type film, in which an everyday Joe reacts to insane circumstances. Many flat out failed.’ – Shawn Levy

‘I’m personally looking for artists that are along the lines of today’s pop stars. Whether it be a Rihanna or a Justin Bieber or a Kanye West or a Beyonce or a Lady Gaga, I’m looking for talent that’s like that, that’s what I love.’ – L.A. Reid

‘The CW is a very fashion-oriented network and they like their stars to look a certain way. I like that, but at the same time, I need Nikita to be toned down a bit. You can’t draw too much attention to Nikita because she’s an assassin.’ – Maggie Q

‘There are plenty of people in the world who have tried to be rock stars and have not gotten there.’ – Ben Barnes

‘If my goal is to become a movie star, me working at a pizza shop won’t help me. I have to make the stars align.’ – Terrence J

‘I don’t hang out with movie stars, and you won’t see me going to many Hollywood parties. I’m actually quite boring.’ – Jonathan Rhys Meyers

‘I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine ‘photojournalism’ is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.’ – Mary Ellen Mark

‘Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes – objects with gravitational fields so intense that dramatic space and time-warping effects occur.’ – Paul Davies

‘When I see a good singer, I get teary-eyed. Part of it is jealousy because all comedians are frustrated rock stars. That’s a fact.’ – Jeff Ross

‘With everybody having a Facebook and a Twitter, I feel like regular people consider themselves stars. It’s a live, real-time upload of every time we buy a pair of socks, the most telling sign that we’re losing our politeness. When you know everything about somebody, you can talk to them any way you please.’ – Jeff Ross

‘You don’t see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It’s hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.’ – Lance Reddick

‘I didn’t see my son the entire time I did ‘Dancing With the Stars.’ The only time I saw Jeffrey was when he came to the show Monday and Tuesday nights to watch me dance. You literally rehearse six to eight hours every single day – 40 to 50 hours a week.’ – Sherri Shepherd

‘I’ve had a lot of glamour come my way in the last 10 years – you know, movie stars and mansions and red carpets and trips to Europe and crazy stuff I never would have imagined – and I look at them as if I’m the bartender in the corner of the room. They’ve never gone into my psyche. I look at them with distance, and wonder.’ – Andre Dubus III

‘So many stars who have shows are intimidated by having people around them be funnier than them. It’s always the unsuccessful ones. Look at Seinfeld – he’s great because he let everyone be hilarious.’ – Paul Feig

‘I realized that I’m a soft person. I think I’m sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I’m quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.’ – Rachael Taylor

‘The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn’t Steve McQueen or Robert Redford – it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.’ – Alfred Molina

‘You think a lot of people get to be big stars and get a little crazy, but most of the ones I’ve ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I’ve enjoyed that.’ – Alan Jackson

‘Davy Jones was the grooviest of the Monkees, which makes him one of the grooviest pop stars who ever existed. He was the best dancer in the Monkees, the Cute One, the one with the coy English accent, the bowl-cut boy-child who shook those cherry-red maracas and always got the girl. He was also the guy who stole David Bowie’s original name.’ – Rob Sheffield

‘Just as Bowie, Zeppelin, etc., became rock stars by remaking themselves in the image of the California girls, the Go-Gos became rock stars by pretending to be the Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols. Jane Wiedlin always said her biggest influence was growing up in L.A. as a Bowie girl.’ – Rob Sheffield

‘I don’t know that I came across as being real competitive on ‘The Bachelor,’ although maybe I did a little bit on ‘Dancing with the Stars.’ I am a born competitor. The bigger the challenge the better!’ – Jake Pavelka

‘Movie stars are insecure like everyone else. That’s why they go into acting!’ – Penny Marshall

‘It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you’d call art-house movies – movies that don’t have big stars or big budgets – they’re very hard for distributors to get behind ’em and take chances.’ – Bryan Brown

‘The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn’t brought up that way.’ – Don McLean

‘In those simpler days, you could just take pictures of movie stars and show them the way they were, as normal human beings. And if I felt part of any movement at the time, it was just to do that – to be journalistic and photograph what is, rather than what is made up.’ – Elliott Erwitt

‘Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.’ – Baz Luhrmann

‘Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.’ – Susie Orbach

‘People always ask me, ‘Is there a rivalry between the Nickelodeon and Disney stars? Do you guys hate each other?’ Like everyone has to be on one team. If you’re a Selena Gomez fan, you can’t be a Victoria Justice fan. We’re both half-Latin, and people put us in the same category.’ – Victoria Justice

‘Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.’ – Vijay Mallya

‘There were many stars in Motown’s firmament – among them, Stevie, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves and Diana Ross – but I happen to have loved the Four Tops most of all.’ – Jon Landau

‘James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn’t Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many rock stars by the rock press has as much to do with old fashioned rags-to-riches stories as does the straight culture’s deification of its idols.’ – Jon Landau

‘In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obama’s 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.’ – Bob Beauprez

‘People always want the stars of movies to fall in love with one another.’ – Chris Weitz

‘Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.’ – Bill Kurtis

‘I did a dance sequence in my second short film, which was my best short film, called ‘Hairway to the Stars,’ and I think Chris Wink, the founder of Blue Man Group, was in that. It’s a black-and-white dance sequence. We were Glorious Food waiters together.’ – David O. Russell

‘I like to take risks and do weird things and stuff that’s not normal compared to other Hollywood movies. Not stuff that’s totally avant garde and daring, but doing stuff that’s in other languages and not using stars and using real people – things that they generally don’t do in mainstream films.’ – Eli Roth

‘Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.’ – Eli Roth

‘I have the infinite galaxy from ‘2001’ as my screensaver – so if I space out while I’m writing and it goes to screensaver, I can just stare off into the stars.’ – Eli Roth

‘The music industry doesn’t exist the way it used to. You’ll never have another star like the stars of the ’90s.’ – Mika

‘I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.’ – Park Chan-wook

‘I’ll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don’t have to be famous.’ – Sia

‘Los Angeles is a city known as much for it’s sun as for its stars and it’s dirty air.’ – Ed Begley, Jr.

‘Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.’ – Irrfan Khan

‘When I was younger, I used to look at movie stars with pencil-thin noses and think about a nose job. I’ve got a grown-up baby nose; it’s not chiseled and structured. Then I saw how beautiful Audrey Tatou was in ‘Amelie’ and thought, ‘She’s got a nose like mine, and if she can have a baby nose, so can I.” – Martine McCutcheon

‘Actors, movie stars, rock stars, I can meet them with no worries – but with footballers I go weak at the knees. All of them.’ – Matt Smith

‘I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.’ – Adam Gopnik

‘New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money.’ – Aleksandar Hemon

‘I believe the biggest challenge is just getting the courage to try something different or new. Try to forget the stereotype in your mind. Yoga is for everyone – children, athletes, moms, dads, accountants, truck drivers, even country stars.’ – Kristian Bush

‘I’ve been watching ‘Pawn Stars’ every week for the last year. I like learning about the history behind the items that people bring into the pawnshop. I actually pawned a ring once that a woman sent to me while I was on ‘Jerry Springer.’ It was really gaudy.’ – Steve Wilkos

‘I will do ‘Dancing with the Stars’ when my career dips.’ – Pauly D

‘Stars make money on real movies. They make big money on real movies. To come into my world, I’ve got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I’m asking you to move furniture.’ – Lee Daniels

‘Technologies that may be realized in centuries or millennium include: warp drive, traveling faster than the speed of light, parallel universes; are there other parallel dimensions and parallel realities? Time travel that we mentioned and going to the stars.’ – Michio Kaku

‘When we’re born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.’ – Michio Kaku

‘I was told by my agent that a number of big stars won’t work with anyone two inches taller than them and most of them are under six feet, so you have to be prepared to have trouble.’ – James Cromwell

‘In the 1940s, cigarettes would be shown in classy situations, endorsed by celebrities – real A-list Hollywood stars in America – the ads would make claims about tobacco quality or manufacturing science and, bizarrely, some brands had what almost amounted to health claims.’ – Peter York

‘Obviously neither ‘American Idol’ nor ‘Dancing With the Stars’ is a variety show in the classic sense, but the way they incorporate elements of drama, comedy and suspense is moderately ingenious.’ – Tom Shales

‘I have long believed that celebrity, the way we worship and package and sell our pop stars, is what filled the need for gods that was once filled by the pictures in stained glass. Hollywood is post-Christian Venice – in other words, a pantheon of saints without the hassle and heartache of religion.’ – Rich Cohen

‘For me, the magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars.’ – Joanne Harris

‘I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write.’ – Kathryn Lasky

‘As I get older the stars have gone from my eyes more, and I see that life is just something that has to be lived with, that it’s better not to struggle.’ – Marian Keyes

‘Stars are rare creatures, and not everyone can be one. But there isn’t anyone on earth – not you, not me, not the girl next door – who wouldn’t like to be a movie star holding up that gold statuette on Academy Award night.’ – Sue Mengers

‘If you start out with a little telescope observing the stars and you keep at it over the years, as I have, it’s kind of a dream to one day have an observatory where you can always go and use the telescope conveniently.’ – Tim Ferriss

‘Everywhere I go now, people are like, ‘That’s the guy from ‘Dancing With the Stars!’ It’s pretty good that you’re not just a football player but you’re in the entertainment world.’ – Donald Driver

‘I rooted for the Milwaukee Brewers and its stars, Robin Yount and Paul Molitor. I went to a lot of games, including the World Series in 1982. The Brewers may have been a bad team for most of my life, but to have your team at its peak when you are thirteen years old is an experience I wish for every fan.’ – David Einhorn

‘I’m fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘I’ve seen rock stars agonize over the fact that another artist has far more Facebook ‘likes’ and Twitter followers than they do.’ – Neil Strauss

‘I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune.’ – Neil Strauss

‘I’ve noticed a pattern in stars that start acting out in public. Every one of them felt like they grew up without love.’ – Neil Strauss

‘If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.’ – J. R. Moehringer

‘My favorite all-time artist… I would say, I think that must be Sigur Ros, I love that band. It’s like going to the stars for me. When I put the music from Jonsi or Sigur Ros on, it’s so relaxing, it’s warm and it never gets boring to listen to, you always hear new things. Yeah, that must be my favorite band.’ – Tiesto

‘DJs are the new rock stars.’ – Tiesto

‘When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.’ – Haniel Long

‘People who look down never get much of an idea of the sky where the stars are set. And the fellow who doesn’t hitch at least one or two of his wagons to a star never gets very high up. Get your eyes off the ground. Look ahead.’ – George Matthew Adams

‘Putting TV stars in plays just to get people in is wrong. You have to have the right people in the right parts. Stunt casting and being gimmicky does the theatre a great disservice. You have to lure people by getting them excited about a theatrical experience.’ – Catherine Tate

‘When I first joined ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ I did not want to do it. It’s not what I like, it’s not what I believe in… the judges are fake, this is fake, that is fake… there is not a lot of reality.’ – Maksim Chmerkovskiy

‘The difficulty of getting a movie made through a major studio is so extreme that when a movie comes out, everyone should give it four stars because it was accomplished.’ – John Mulaney

‘I think ‘Twilight’ was such a phenomenon that it will be awhile before anything like that will happen again. Cause it really influenced pop culture, and the stars of it – well, the people who became stars out of it – their lives were completely changed.’ – Saoirse Ronan

‘On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.’ – A. S. Byatt

‘I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in.’ – Sada Thompson

‘We look at distant exploding stars called supernovae, and we’ve developed techniques to measure how far away they are and how fast they’re moving away from us.’ – Adam Riess

‘I’m a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.’ – Claire Scovell LaZebnik

‘If someone is going to permit me to make a publication that is politically and culturally progressive and not tell me to put their favorite movie stars on the cover, if I get to do what I want in an honest way – as I did in the beginning at ‘Colors’ – then I’m going to do it.’ – Tibor Kalman

‘I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.’ – Andre Balazs

‘With women, there’s a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.’ – Edith Head

‘Growing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars’ kids at my school – but no conspicuous wealth. It wasn’t cool to show off that you had money.’ – Zooey Deschanel

‘My father and Mary Pickford were the reigning stars of not just Hollywood but of the world. Well, to bear my father’s name was hard enough, but to work in pictures to boot was pretty foolhardy. In fact, my father was totally against it. He thought I should be off getting a good education and go into some safe profession.’ – Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

‘When I began my career as a flight attendant, I was a 21-year-old with a B.A. in English and stars in her eyes. I wanted to see every city in the world. I wanted to have adventures that, I hoped, would fuel a writing career some day.’ – Ann Hood

‘Everything that is bad, the falling sickness – God save the mark – or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon. I suppose because it is the leader of the stars.’ – Lady Gregory

‘With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we as a species must travel. And with a booming world population that will hit 9.1 billion in 2050, large-scale space travel may become a necessity.’ – Ben Parr

‘In Hollywood, for me, it’s all about the movie stars and the singers. Baseball players don’t draw too much attention; we’re low key. I’m good with faces and sometimes bad with names, but I’ll walk up to somebody if I know who they are… show them some love.’ – Matt Kemp

‘At home, I watch fights and documentaries – that’s it. If it’s not about the birth and death of stars, ‘Frozen Planet,’ or someone getting punched in the face, I’m probably not watching it.’ – Ronda Rousey

‘I’m not a star, and I don’t want to be a star. Stars fall. I’m an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.’ – Bernie Mac

‘The first question is always, ‘We loved him on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ we loved him in the Olympics, but can he speak English?’ Yes I speak English. Yes, I can.’ – Apolo Ohno

‘I wanted to go back on ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ I did it. One of my favorite shows is ‘Hawaii Five-0.’ I went on, guest starred. I wanted to be in a film, did ‘Tasmanian Devils’ in Vancouver. Wanted to host a show, boom, did it.’ – Apolo Ohno

‘My small experience on ‘Dancing with the Stars’ allowed me to slowly appreciate the Waltz and Viennese Waltz, but to see it in Vienna is something much different.’ – Apolo Ohno

‘Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don’t think that’s the best policy.’ – Harold Prince

‘My parents were serious working musicians, but they were not stars – not like pop stars that you have now. They had to make a living and that meant touring, working hard, going on the road – and we were roped in.’ – Rufus Wainwright

‘The fact is that movie stars are as insecure as the rest of us – if not more so. Many live in a luxurious bubble in which their best friends are their trainer, their hairdresser, their publicist, and their Kabbalah instructor.’ – Graydon Carter

‘People had this idea about becoming rock stars packing stadiums instead of having the goal of becoming what musicians used to be in terms of how they would perform and connect people.’ – Amanda Palmer

‘I wouldn’t participate in ‘Stars on Ice’ if I were asked. I find it an amateurish tour in a way, the production quality.’ – Johnny Weir

‘I’ve never been invited to do ‘Stars on Ice’ before, which is the only figure skating tour in the U.S., and it’s disappointing that I can’t perform for my American fans… all because I’m not ‘family friendly’ enough.’ – Johnny Weir

‘I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystique. We only knew so much about their lives; the rest was a mystery.’ – Pixie Lott

‘I have more fun hanging out with my friends who are musicians and rock stars. You know politicians by and large are pretty stiff, pretty rehearsed.’ – Jann Wenner

‘The theory in great families was ‘why work if you don’t have to.’ Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.’ – Jacqueline de Ribes

‘We are all made up of stars and all of us are billions of years old – that’s what I believe, at least.’ – Sarah Brightman

‘There’s enough music in the world. There are enough rock stars.’ – Noel Gallagher

‘Rock stardom will die because nobody will make enough money any more to be rock stars.’ – Noel Gallagher

‘The key to proving that there’s a black hole is showing that there’s a tremendous amount of mass in a very small volume. And you can do that with the motions of stars.’ – Andrea M. Ghez

‘How can we ask for our young stars to have a high level of responsibility if we are not demonstrating that same level of responsibility towards them?’ – Jada Pinkett Smith

‘Most aspiring child actors or child stars have a passion for it. But as easy as it is for me to say that I wouldn’t put my kids in it, if I saw that they really, really wanted to do and they had the drive, then I would fully support it. As long as there’s balance at home, then they could do whatever they wanted to do.’ – Nick Cannon

‘I’m as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes. My style comes from looking at what came before me, and from visiting a lot of places.’ – Afrika Bambaataa

‘We are the laws of chemistry and physics as they have played out here on Earth, and we are now learning that planets are as common as stars. Most stars, as it turns out now, will have planets.’ – Jill Tarter

‘Earlier generations of stars in the galaxy could well have had planets. But really, there was only hydrogen and helium to work with, so they’d all be gas giants and not small, rocky planets.’ – Jill Tarter

‘Bollywood stars are versatile; they not only act, but each one has the dance skills of John Travolta in ‘Saturday Night Fever.” – Christian Louboutin

‘I know I’m not some matinee idol, but I think we’re sold this bill of goods by the media, which says that only the most beautiful and dashing people can become movie stars. So when someone like me sneaks in, they have to redo the calculations.’ – John C. Reilly

‘I always think of space-time as being the real substance of space, and the galaxies and the stars just like the foam on the ocean.’ – George Smoot

‘For many centuries, humans have speculated that there might be planetary systems around other stars and that there could be extraterrestrial life there and even intelligent being. However, those were simply speculations, and now we have evidence for the first part of these ideas.’ – George Smoot

‘I grew up in a town with no movie theater. TV was my only link to the outside world. Film wasn’t such a big deal to me. It was TV. So much so, that when I meet TV stars now… Not my co-workers, but real TV stars, I get nervous. I freak out around them.’ – DJ Qualls

‘We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between these extremes, in the middle range we all inhabit between our genes and our stars.’ – Nicholas A. Christakis

‘In future, children won’t perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they’ll learn that each is a ‘Sun’, orbited by planets fully as interesting as those in our Solar system.’ – Martin Rees

‘I’m not that good looking… nobody is that good looking. I have seen a lot of movie stars, and maybe four are amazing looking. The rest have a team of gay guys who make it happen.’ – Tina Fey

‘There are a lot of actors who don’t like reality stars ’cause they feel these people aren’t accomplished. They haven’t done this or that, but they are savvy. They have found a way to make it work. I could dissect your career all day long, but I’m focused on my own career.’ – Niecy Nash

‘It’s funny how the ruthless, murderous gangster has really been romanticized by the media. I mean, I grew up watching the ‘Godfathers’ and ‘Scarface,’ and they were the coolest. They’re just really interesting stories with great characters. They’re rock stars.’ – Elena Satine

‘I want to thank the fans so much for their support through the years. Even as undeserving as I was, they were a big part of my being able to move forward and put my life back together. They’re the greatest. They’re the ones who make the stars. For their support throughout my career and today, I love them and thank them.’ – Lex Luger

‘They did ask me to do ‘Dancing With The Stars;’ I said I can do one show, but on that show you have to come up with a new number every week, and I told them that I think I’m a little past that stage.’ – Dick Van Dyke

‘When I did ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ everyone in Hollywood was saying I had too much muscle.’ – Hope Solo

‘It’s just impossible to believe I’ve become good friends with some stars like Justin Bieber. I would call Justin a friend, someone I hang out with. It’s really weird.’ – Niall Horan

‘Because I never set out to be an actress, I always feel so lucky and grateful. There are so many people who are really desperate to be stars, and it was completely the opposite for me – I fell into it.’ – Sophia Myles

‘Rock stars are good at making noise.’ – Bono

‘My go to karaoke song is ‘Stars’ from ‘Les Mis’, which is Javert’s song. And it’s super strange, and every time it comes on people are really weirded out, but that’s what I do.’ – June Diane Raphael

‘My favourite actors are all dead or dying. I just love Jimmy Stewart, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn – I was named after her – and Cary Grant. I just love old black and white movies and the stars in them. It must have been a great time to be in Hollywood.’ – Katharine Isabelle

‘Usually, if I’m yelling at the TV, I’m in a bar. If I’m by myself, and it’s not a game, I often find myself scolding reality stars that can’t hear me through the television set.’ – Ben Feldman

‘People behave differently to TV stars and film stars; it’s to do with the scale of the medium. Film stars get hushed awe, TV stars get slapped on the back. Neither is good for you. Famous people don’t hear the word ‘no’ enough.’ – Tom Hollander

‘Maybe it took a little time, or we’re a little late, but finally we’re recognizing that international stars are fantastic. They’re the greatest actors in the world, and few people know that.’ – Rob Marshall

‘I, and others like me – trap stars – we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.’ – Young Jeezy

‘Stars talk about how they dislike fans fussing over them, begging for autographs and things like that, but deep down inside, they love every minute of it.’ – Brenda Fassie

‘I have always had an ambition to do ‘Dancing with the Stars.” – Lou Ferrigno

”Son of Frankenstein’ is never talked about in the same tone as James Whale’s 1931 ‘Frankenstein.’ But it should be. It was Boris Karloff’s last appearance in the Frankenstein series and stars Donnie Dunagan, then a child actor.’ – Mark Gatiss

‘More than accepted, it’s encouraged for rock stars to be out of control.’ – Martin Gore

”Dancing with The Stars’ is like learning a new sport with lots of bumps and bruises.’ – Romeo Miller

‘There’s good action stars. I’m a bad-guy action star. What disappoints me is when you all of a sudden you get a good action star and then he wants to play a comedy with kids, you know? That upsets me, and that’s not being true to your fans.’ – Vinnie Jones

‘Everybody – even huge movie stars – have downs. That’s just how it is. The work ebbs and flows. My manager and I were saying, ‘Let’s remember that in 2013 we were soooo busy.’ So whenever it is that we’re not, maybe it’ll come back again. Maybe it won’t. But you’ve gotta love the ride.’ – Betsy Brandt

‘I was cocky and arrogant when I was younger. I thought that if I delivered a good performance, and put my best foot forward, that would be enough to get people’s attention. So in my naivety, I cut my legs off at the knees, because I didn’t realize that oftentimes it doesn’t matter about the performance… it’s the media that creates stars.’ – Bokeem Woodbine

‘I know a lot of Disney Channel stars. I hang out with Debbie Ryan. Me and Ryan Newman hang out a lot, and I know a lot of them from ‘Friends for Change’ – we all meet from there. It’s cool. Everybody is like family at Disney Channel. All the stars are so fun and nice, so it’s really fun to hang out with them.’ – Bradley Steven Perry

‘If you work with big stars, then they become the lead actors. It’s not that I don’t want to do films with big stars, but I would rather do the films where I get the title roles.’ – Kangana Ranaut

‘Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don’t really have a lot of time for activism.’ – Annie Lennox

‘A lot of times I think the cast members, the lead characters in a show really set the tone for the show. On some shows, the stars of the show will just be whining and complaining and spending the whole time texting their boyfriends on their Blackberries, and there’s just no attention given to the work.’ – Misha Collins

‘When I was first on ‘Dancing With The Stars’, people were really shocked and surprised.’ – Jerry Springer

‘I’m always playing a role, whether it’s the role of the mayor, the role of a news anchor, or a role of a crazy talk-show host. But there was a specific function. ‘On Dancing With The Stars’, I had nothing to do but be me, schlepping around the floor. And when I host ‘America’s Got Talent’, that’s really me just talking to regular folks.’ – Jerry Springer

‘The beauty of Hawaii probably surpasses other places. I like the Big Island and the two mountains, Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, where you can look out at the stars.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘What I like about fairy tales is that they highlight the emotions within a story. The situations aren’t real, with falling stars and pirates. But what you do relate to is the emotions that the characters feel.’ – Charlie Cox

‘There is nothing worse than when actors come to a set – and it happens a lot with big stars – and they are too aware of where the camera is. They are the show. And that becomes apparent and it affects the production. I am like ‘You should not know where the camera is – you should act, and I will do the rest.” – Paddy Considine

‘I’m not particularly interested in working with movie stars. It depends on where you come from, I suppose. Why are you making films? The reason I want make films is because they convey ideas. I think some directors make films because they want to hang out with movie stars and be part of Hollywood. They want to be a star themselves.’ – Neill Blomkamp

‘I think the reason you use an actor is if they are right for the role. Most of the high-profile stars tend to be good actors. That’s probably what led to their fame. So if they are right for the movie, you can certainly use them. But I don’t want to, not at all. Stardom and Hollywood overpower the ideas and the film.’ – Neill Blomkamp

”Dancing with the Stars’ is a great format for us. It’s a format we license from the BBC, so that can’t travel for us, but we consider it a great success. ‘Desperate Housewives,’ on the other hand, a huge success for us internationally. ‘Missing’ has actually sold to 80 territories before it’s even gone on the air.’ – Anne Sweeney

‘My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes.’ – Brian Dennehy

‘In this business, you have a hierarchy of stars. Russell Crowe, Tom Hanks – you name ’em, they can play any part they want. Guys like me who are somewhere down in the middle of the pack, that’s a different story. I can do things in the theater that I can’t do anyplace else.’ – Brian Dennehy

‘As the stars make more and more money – one person gets $12 million, $14 million, $15 million, $20 million – everyone else is expected to work for peanuts. And that includes some extraordinary actors who are, today, working for peanuts because the production companies have decided they don’t need to pay these people, and they don’t.’ – Brian Dennehy

‘I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don’t mind the earnest ones at all, but I do like a bit of individuality.’ – Elton John

‘And if a person is religious, I think it’s good, it helps you a bit. But if you’re not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.’ – Maya Angelou

‘It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.’ – Mona Singh

‘There are just moments when all the stars are aligned for breakthrough products.’ – John Sculley

‘No one except Hollywood stars and very rich Texans wore Indian jewelry. And there was a plethora of dozens if not hundreds of athletic teams that in essence were insulting us, from grade schools to college. That’s all changed.’ – Russell Means

‘If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn’t have stumbled my way through ‘Dancing with the Stars.” – Penn Jillette

‘When I initially committed to joining ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ I didn’t realize just how physically demanding it would be for me. Unable to put forth my best effort, I felt it appropriate to step aside and give someone else the opportunity.’ – Vincent Pastore

‘Movie stars are doing TV series, and former TV stars are doing guest shots. Everybody gets bumped down the line. That’s affected everyone in the industry. I’ve been lucky; I’ve stayed busy. I’ll cross my fingers until it’s my turn to be sitting around, not working. I’m sure that’ll happen, too.’ – Zeljko Ivanek

‘Governments can’t keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.’ – Jairam Ramesh

‘I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they’ll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he’s very versatile.’ – Madhur Bhandarkar

”Badmaash Company’ and ‘Delhi Belly’ was about friends, and I was part of the gang. And yes, they did have stars playing the lead! You do need a star to sell a film; and playing the second lead doesn’t bother me.’ – Vir Das

‘I guess rock stars are role models for the kids who listen to that music. My role models have all been geologists – you know, the guys who are doing fieldwork until they’re 70.’ – Greg Graffin

‘Even if you have nothing in your wallet, nothing can keep you from having a great summer. You can listen to crickets sing you to sleep, trace the Big Dipper, breathe in the stars, run through a sprinkler, host a cartwheel contest in the front yard.’ – Regina Brett

‘I don’t think it’s important to be that good at singing. I think people who are good at singing sing backing vocals for pop stars. It’s about how you project. I wouldn’t consider myself to be a singer.’ – Robbie Williams

‘Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they never became pop stars. I counter stated that very strongly, and I continue to do that.’ – Wynton Marsalis

‘There were ‘big stars’ at the Alamo! Bowie, Crockett! It is a huge political event because it, and the events at Goliad and San Jacinto, changed the look of a map of America. America would be a very different place if Texas had remained Mexican.’ – Phil Collins

‘I’ve been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you’ve done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it’s a great burden if you’re one of those fantastic stars who’ve always been beautiful; then I think it’s hard.’ – Maggie Smith

‘When you gaze at stars and think about planets, the places it takes your imagination are amazing! You look up the sky, and you know the stars have always been here; they were referenced in biblical times and have always been present. They are somewhere up there in the future, and they guide you; they make you feel safe.’ – Sarah Brightman

‘I’ve said no to ‘Celebrity Big Brother,’ ‘Strictly,’ and the American one, ‘Dancing With The Stars.’ I don’t feel it’s right for me. I’ve been asked to do reality TV a zillion times. No way. No way. Nobody’s going to get into my living room and see me there.’ – Joan Collins

‘I’m a good example of someone who can come to Hollywood and keep their feet on the ground with all the rock stars, all the drama that goes with being here. It’s still important to pump your own gas and to be able to vacuum.’ – Pamela Anderson

‘When you fall in love with favourite movie stars, it’s not because they’re movie stars and unattainable, but because they show you sides of themselves that are extremely personal.’ – Sarah Gadon

‘I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can’t see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.’ – Van Morrison

‘I’m a big soccer fan, so any soccer player that I meet, I always get star struck. I’ve met a lot of big stars – Justin Timberlake, Michael Buble – and I don’t ever get starstruck, but when I met famous ex-football players, I just got completely starstruck.’ – Olly Murs

‘There was a period of time when they estimated the two biggest stars in Hollywood were Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse.’ – John Lasseter

‘So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.’ – Andy Warhol

‘I can’t spell or do grammar, but I’m smarter and more serious than people think. I’m no featherweight when it comes to digging deep and being involved. So many stars I know do so much. It’s our duty to give back.’ – Cher

‘I don’t wanna be a rock star. I don’t believe in rock stars. If you really examine what goes with being a rock star, I’ve avoided that really well.’ – Ted Nugent

‘The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn’t flat.’ – Malcolm X

‘It’s in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie’s birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That’s why I like Charlie Parker.’ – Joni Mitchell

‘I love Salma Hayek; we’ve been friends for a really long time. I admire how she has come such a long way and always remained grounded and who she is. She never compromises to follow her vision, and she is loyal. Such qualities only mark the great stars.’ – Penelope Cruz

‘Obviously I’ve had this fascination with aristocracy my whole life. Like, the kings and queens of 500 years ago… they’re like rock stars. If there was a ‘TMZ’ 500 years ago, it would be about, like, Henry VIII and Marie Antoinette and all those people.’ – Lorde

‘I don’t think people look at how pop stars live and feel anything aspirational at all.’ – Lorde

‘A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they’re just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don’t have the looks any more, then it’s over.’ – Michael Caine

‘I cannot possibly conceive of my planet Earth as the centre of a three-tiered universe. I know rather that the sun, around which my planet Earth revolves, is a middle sized star in a galaxy called the Milky Way that has over a hundred billion other suns or stars within it.’ – John Shelby Spong

‘If parents are the fixed stars in the child’s universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.’ – Alison Gopnik

‘Now celebrity has taken on a holy status all of its own, and we look to the stars to provide us with the transcendental experience that was once achieved through religion.’ – Alison Jackson

‘No, you will never see me on ‘Dancing With the Stars.’ Sorry.’ – Mara Wilson

‘Not many child stars make it out of Hollywood alive or sane, and at any given time there are at least three former ones having very public breakdowns.’ – Mara Wilson

‘Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won’t be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.’ – Mara Wilson

”Dancing With The Stars’ is a little family. The cast, we’re all together – we’re a really friendly competition.’ – Lil’ Kim

‘People are dressing like stars, which is kind of fantastic.’ – Philip Treacy

‘A-list stars go to Comic-Con to woo the nerd demographic.’ – Jim Lee

‘When I hear a great country song, I get chills and I want to cry. You feel something. And just sometimes that magic and the stars line up somehow or another, and it creates something that’s really, really, really special.’ – Ashley Monroe

‘The dominant male is history. Could you see a male Lady Gaga? The closest we’ve got is Justin Bieber, who’d be locked up if he tried the stuff Gaga gets away with. Women are the only rock stars now. Adele is brutally honest. I want to be like her.’ – Tom Odell

‘There’s a difference between a pop star and an artist. Pop stars have to be perfect all the time; an artist is allowed, on occasion, to suck. And I put myself in that category because I sometimes suck. I’m not trying to please the masses. It’s not going to happen, so I don’t try.’ – Kelis

‘I’d like a telescope, but I probably wouldn’t look at the stars that often. I’d definitely be looking into people’s flats most of the time.’ – Alison Goldfrapp

‘I don’t think I would be a good actor! People enjoyed ‘Dancing With the Stars’ because I was myself, and every time they told me to say something, I would say my own words, so I don’t think I could follow a script well!’ – Helio Castroneves

‘It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father’s plays. The reality of the situation is that I’m a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It’s a no-brainer! I’m pleased the stars have aligned around ‘Arcadia.” – Ed Stoppard

”Dancing with the Stars’ is awesome.’ – Sabrina Bryan

‘Nowadays, the truth is, I think a lot of the newer generation of action stars usually are pretty self-deprecating and cool. I mean, Dwayne Johnson is a great example.’ – Adam McKay

‘I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, ‘Dancing with the Stars.’ That was the one where I watched it and I was perplexed. I thought it was really boring.’ – Adam McKay

”The X Factor’ seems to be more about building up personalities and people in tears. And it’s not a new idea. The pre-Beatles pop world was full of manufactured pop stars. The thing is that you can’t imagine any of the artists you look back at and admire ever going on ‘The X Factor.” – Jools Holland

‘They go on about banning size zero, but I think Hollywood stars are the worst perpetrators. Most models are naturally long and gangly, while a lot of these young girls in Hollywood have gone on extreme diets. Their concave chests and bony arms are terrifying. It’s scary to think that normal teenagers are tempted to copy them.’ – Twiggy

‘I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.’ – Gloria Vanderbilt

‘Let’s find a new way to think about the entire taxonomy of solar system objects, and not clutch to this concept of ‘planet,’ which, of course, only ever meant, ‘Do you move against the background stars, regardless of what you’re made of?” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘Somehow, stars have a lot of class if they are done right; they never have a shelf life.’ – Bella Freud

‘Emmitt Smith has run past legends, danced with stars and posed for the sculptor crafting his Hall of Fame bust. He’s built upon his athletic talents by working hard, seizing opportunities and reaching out to others for advice when he needed it.’ – Don Yaeger

‘Chris Paul is one of the brightest stars in the National Basketball Association, a must-see player with the New Orleans Hornets whose deft ball skills and eye-popping speed have attracted admirers all over the world.’ – Don Yaeger

‘I could care less if it’s Mick Jagger or the man on the street. I just like interesting people, and I happen to know a lot of stars.’ – Nicholas Haslam

‘We Californians can watch the Weather Channel for images of winter’s brutality unleashed upon our fellow Americans and thank our lucky stars we don’t have to contend with it.’ – Henry Rollins

‘America puts killers on the cover of ‘TIME’ magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars.’ – Marilyn Manson

‘The main thing to know about me is that I’m a champion of entrepreneurs and the startups they build. They are my rock stars. If in doubt, I side with them, and that’s clear from my writing.’ – Michael Arrington

‘My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars’ production companies, and once someone actually hired a screenwriter to adapt one of my books – but it all came to nothing, so I tried not to get too excited when a Hollywood suitor came calling for ‘Admission,’ my fourth novel.’ – Jean Hanff Korelitz

‘In Los Angeles, I had the good fortune of anchoring the news right before Johnny Carson came on, so to see him, the Hollywood stars watched me first.’ – Tom Brokaw

‘When one deals with stars, he is dealing with intelligent people. If they weren’t intelligent, they wouldn’t have arrived at the star pinnacle.’ – George Cukor

‘I always admired the beautiful stars of Hollywood and dreamt of becoming one of them.’ – Sonam Kapoor

‘I was 18 when I did ‘The Amanda Show,’ and I was 19 when I did ‘MadTV,’ and I was in way over my head. I was just sort of a goof who could do impressions of WB stars – speaking of the Dawson Van Der Beek era – and it was overwhelming. I don’t think I’ve learned more faster in my life than when I worked on ‘MadTV.” – Taran Killam

‘There is one common thing in superstars – enthusiasm and humility towards their work. Off sets, they are big stars for others, and they carry themselves the way they want to. When they are working, they are not stars.’ – Abhishek Bachchan

‘By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very middle-class Indian upbringing. We were never made to realise who we were or that my father and mother were huge stars – it was a very normal house, and I’d like my daughter to have the same thing.’ – Abhishek Bachchan

‘I think India is very passionate about films. It’s almost a second religion back home. Due to that, I think film stars are – are really held in great esteem. Not that we’re complaining, but I think with that comes a lot of responsibility.’ – Abhishek Bachchan

‘I’m eternally grateful for the fact that I’m doing what I like best. I thank my stars for it. I wonder why I wasted all that time being fat. I should have lost weight and started acting earlier. But as they say, things happen when they are meant to.’ – Sonakshi Sinha

‘Everyone tries to compare cooks to rock stars. I see more comparisons to the fashion world.’ – David Chang

”Dancing With the Stars’ really opened a lot of doors for me, and I’m so grateful for that.’ – Chelsea Kane

‘We’ve all heard stories of lottery winners, rock stars, heirs and heiresses, and professional athletes becoming millionaire morons who wake up rich but are broke by nightfall.’ – Robert Kiyosaki

‘If we incline our wills in true earnest singleness to God, then we go with Christ out of this world, out from the stars and elements, and enter into God; for in the will of reason we are children of the stars and elements, and the spirit of this world ruleth over us.’ – Jakob Bohme

‘In this world, with thy earthly life, thou art under heaven, stars, and elements, also under hell and devils; all ruleth in thee, and over thee.’ – Jakob Bohme

‘The reason we have the stars twinkle at night is because the light is being kind of blurred by the atmosphere around the Earth. That is why the Hubble Space Telescope is so good, because it is above the atmosphere. So it is kind of like looking at the sun from the bottom of a swimming pool, versus looking at the sun above the swimming pool.’ – Michael J. Massimino

‘The thing I remember most about space is the view from the spacewalk. When I was inside the space shuttle and looking through the window, you can see the earth and the stars, and it’s very beautiful, but it’s like looking at an aquarium, sort of. When you go outside and spacewalk, you become a scuba diver.’ – Michael J. Massimino

‘To be sure, the hard-to-come-by interview – the ‘get’ – isn’t an uncommon phenomenon here at ‘The Daily Show.’ We’ve had high-profile dignitaries, low-profile indignitaries, stars you’ve heard of, authors you should have read.’ – Kevin Bleyer

‘The night sky in Egypt is a swirling mass of stars so bright and numerous the sky seems to tremble with the ice-blue weight of them.’ – Rosemary Mahoney

‘Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.’ – James Stephens

‘Great actors are people who just meld into the part without calling attention to the fact that they are so-and-so doing this part. They may never become huge stars, but will always, in memory, stay respected actors.’ – Shekhar Kapur

‘When very large stars die, they create temperatures so high that protons begin to fuse in all sorts of exotic combinations, to form all the elements of the periodic table. If, like me, you’re wearing a gold ring, it was forged in a supernova explosion.’ – David Christian

‘I didn’t know anything about movies or movie stars or the Academy or anything. I was just a blank sheet of paper. I was totally ignorant of all that stuff. I never went to the movies, didn’t know anything about the movies.’ – Mary Badham

‘As a young girl, I used to dream of giving an interview. You dream of stardom as a kid. People think they don’t want to be stars. Everyone wants to be a star! That’s the truth. Even grownups; they pretend they don’t want to be one and don’t care. But everyone wants to.’ – Sania Mirza

‘The stars look the same from night to night. Nebulae and galaxies are dully immutable, maintaining the same overall appearance for thousands or millions of years. Indeed, only the sun, moon and planets – together with the occasional comet, asteroid or meteor – seem dynamic.’ – Seth Shostak

‘The principal reason for the universe’s poker face is that its constituents are far away. Stars careen through space, and galaxies spin at speeds thousands of times faster than a jet plane. But given their distance, you’d need the patience of Job to notice much change in their appearance or position.’ – Seth Shostak

‘We’ve accounted for 95 percent of all the stars in the Milky Way. The other 5 percent are big, bright stars – the kind that dominate the night sky, but are lamentably both rare and short-lived. If biology’s your thing, you can forget those guys.’ – Seth Shostak

‘The mission of NASA’s Kepler telescope is to lift the scales from our eyes and reveal to us just how typical our home world is. Kepler operates by measuring the dimming of stars as planets pass (‘transit’) in front of them. It has found thousands of previously unknown worlds.’ – Seth Shostak

‘Recent results from astronomers who study the occasional gravitational lensing of unknown worlds by intervening stars suggest that orphan planets could be at least as numerous as the stars. In other words, there could be hundreds of billions of orphan worlds shuffling through our galaxy.’ – Seth Shostak

‘The bottom line is, like, one in five stars has at least one planet where life might spring up. That’s a fantastically large percentage. That means in our galaxy, there’s on the order of tens of billions of Earth-like worlds.’ – Seth Shostak

‘The most attractive habitats for synthetic sentience might be the vicinities of exceptional sources of energy – for example black holes, or even the neighbourhoods of large stars, which routinely boil off the energy of ten thousand suns. These are the destinations they may seek.’ – Seth Shostak

‘A practical way to travel between the stars is a must-have for space opera, and a sine qua non for our frequently vaunted future as a galactic society.’ – Seth Shostak

‘Scientists – who prefer explanations subject to laboratory tests – figure that everything we see today was as inevitable as wrinkles, once the Big Bang established physics. Stars and planets were cooked up as huge clouds of matter collapsed and coalesced.’ – Seth Shostak

‘The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.’ – Seth Shostak

‘The bottom line is that the position of the Sun relative to the stars slowly changes for any given date, and over the course of 26,000 years, it can easily slide between constellations. So you may think you’re a Pisces, but you’re actually an Aquarius.’ – Seth Shostak

‘The central region of the Milky Way, known as the bulge, is stuffed with literally tens of billions of stars. And most of these are old – considerably older than our Sun or its neighbors – because this part of the galaxy formed first. Consequently, bulge stars are generally deficient in heavy elements.’ – Seth Shostak

‘If gravity were somewhat stronger or weaker, stars wouldn’t exist, and neither would you. And the same can be said of other constants of physics. Several have to be ‘just right.” – Seth Shostak

‘You’ll never see me at the launch of the new PlayStation or some club. For me, the fun stuff is being able to get my mom tickets to ‘Dancing With the Stars’ – she loves Mario Lopez.’ – America Ferrera

‘Maroon 5 are worldwide stars.’ – Blake Shelton

‘Any time you’ve got big teams winning, you’ve got big stars.’ – Pete Rose

‘I’m still shooting on low budgets, though none of my movies has lost money, and I rarely get sent anything that stars a guy or is a thriller or is seriously dramatic. And I would love the opportunity to do those things.’ – Nicole Holofcener

‘The sporting fields where Australia’s greats began their careers are built and rebuilt with Commonwealth help, as are the halls and community centres where our most of our well-known stars first felt the magic of the stage.’ – Anthony Albanese

‘I feel bad for young actors who become huge stars too quickly, because you haven’t had a chance to practice your craft a lot.’ – Topher Grace

‘Celebrities, movie stars and rock stars are losing their mystique.’ – Nikki Sixx

‘At the Academy Awards every year, there are best-dressed stars – and worst-dressed stars. But it’s the worst-dressed that go down in history.’ – Brad Goreski

‘Overall, we’ve lost risk-takers on the red carpet at the Academy Awards. All too often, stars play it safe.’ – Brad Goreski

‘Barack Obama has brought glamour back to American politics – not the faux glamour-by-association of campaigning with movie stars or sailing with the Kennedys, but the real thing. The candidate himself is glamorous. Audiences project onto him the personal qualities and political positions they want in a president.’ – Virginia Postrel

‘Cinema isn’t just a good medium for translating graphic novels. It’s specifically a good medium for superheroes. On a fundamental, emotional level, superheroes, whether in print or on film, serve the same function for their audience as Golden Age movie stars did for theirs: they create glamour.’ – Virginia Postrel

‘Some people call it the ‘Al Jazeera spirit’ – courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.’ – Wadah Khanfar

‘I grew up in Bulgaria in a small city on the Black Sea Coast, so I was very interested in the sea, marine life, and everything related to it. But it was also a very dark place at night, so I could see the stars. And I just got very interested in it.’ – Dimitar Sasselov

‘Stars that become supernovae start off at least eight times heavier than our sun. They’re so short-lived that, even if they have planets, there is unlikely to be time for life to get started. The surface is 40,000C and, as a result, the colouring will be extremely blue.’ – Martin Rees

‘Darwin and his successors taught us how our biosphere evolved, and thereby transformed our conception of humanity’s place in nature. In the twenty-first century, space scientists are setting Darwin in a grander cosmic context – probing the origins of Earth, stars, atoms and the universe itself.’ – Martin Rees

‘Space doesn’t offer an escape from Earth’s problems. And even with nuclear fuel, the transit time to nearby stars exceeds a human lifetime. Interstellar travel is therefore, in my view, an enterprise for post-humans, evolved from our species not via natural selection, but by design.’ – Martin Rees

‘The first voyagers to the stars will be creatures whose life cycle is matched to the voyage: the aeons involved in traversing the galaxy are not daunting to immortal beings. By the end of the third millennium, travel to other stars could be technically feasible. But would there be sufficient motive?’ – Martin Rees

‘When I go train hopping and I look up into the sky, there are always so many more stars than I remember there were.’ – William T. Vollmann

‘I did a couple of movies in Brazil, and the actors were incredibly congenial and hung out together a lot. Even the biggest stars would do radio commercials – they’re not put on a pedestal like they are in the United States.’ – Alan Arkin

‘I actually quite love following Lisa Rinna on Twitter, because she tweets like I tweet, which is like, ‘Just dropped off the kids!’ Or, ‘Hey, here’s a great sale at the grocery store!’ It’s such real life, and to me she’s like a celebrity – she looks like Hollywood to me – that following her makes me feel like, stars are just like us!’ – Ross Mathews

‘I probably make more money in a year on ‘Newhart’ than 70 percent of your working top-name stars. Some weeks I just have six lines, but it doesn’t bother me.’ – Peter Scolari

‘The thing that’s strange about Frank Vincent is that actors of his quality are usually big stars.’ – Irwin Winkler

‘We don’t swim for the attention. We don’t swim to be rock stars. There is something beautiful about being in an anonymous sport and being fairly anonymous. It enables you do something you love without any of the other effects.’ – Aaron Peirsol

‘Mom takes all the credit for my success. Now Mom says, ‘I read your face when you were a baby, and it said you were going to be a star. That’s why I named you Ming – because it’s all about the sun and the stars and enlightenment.” – Ming-Na Wen

‘You can’t get more glamorous than you are on ‘Dancing with the Stars.” – Kendra Wilkinson

‘We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars… Without stars they cannot work.’ – Om Puri

‘Of the great singing stars of the 1940s and ’50s, only one – Nat King Cole – died young, at age 45.’ – Robert Gottlieb

‘You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the dancers – the not-yet stars, the up-and-comers.’ – Robert Gottlieb

‘I had a big problem working with stars, because they are too expensive and have too many demands. Their names help you raise the money to make the movie, but then they demand close-ups. They change things. You end up doing things at their service instead of servicing the film.’ – Alejandro Jodorowsky

‘The Indonesian brands aren’t interested in sports people, only movie stars, because they can get more exposure in the media.’ – Taufik Hidayat

‘I live in Wales but spend quite a lot of time in London – I stay with my brother. When I get home after being in Manchester or London for a bit, I forget how dark the sky is, and I won’t have seen stars for ages.’ – Kimberley Nixon

‘I didn’t want to do all of the mags, and we didn’t get paid for those shoots – ‘Hollyoaks’ took the fee. But I couldn’t say no to everything. I felt lucky to have the job I was doing, so I went along with it. And when I did ‘Maxim,’ I knew that stars like Eva Longoria had also been on the cover, so I was in good company.’ – Roxanne McKee

‘Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star.’ – Nicolas Roeg

‘It used to be that film stars didn’t want to do TV, and actors weren’t singing, and singers weren’t acting. Everybody’s kind of crossing over to whatever they want to do. So I feel like, if you have it, use it. If God’s given you this talent, then use it.’ – Tika Sumpter

‘Many movie stars or American Idol contestants sort of fall into theater… and say, ‘Oh, yeah, I would love to do theater.’ And then they get here and say, ‘Oh, wait a minute, this actually is a craft!’ It’s not just show up one day and do it. It’s show up eight times a week, twice on Wednesdays and twice on Saturdays.’ – Billy Porter

‘The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats – German, Swiss, Canadian, American – would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.’ – Hannah Simone

‘I got a lot of criticism for going back on ‘Survivor’ to play ‘Survivor: All Stars.” – Jenna Morasca

‘The only time I’ve ever danced every day was during ‘Dancing with the Stars’ and in the two-week rehearsal for ‘Dirty Dancing,’ and that was only to do a particular dance.’ – Jennifer Grey

‘Honestly, working with Eddie Murphy was mind-blowing just in terms of the budget alone. To see the respect he commands, to witness his presence, you understand why he and people like Martin Lawrence are stars.’ – Nicole Ari Parker

‘When I did ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ I got literally thousands of emails from people saying, ‘We relate to you. I’ve been divorced. I’m raising kids on my own.’ Or, ‘You’ve had money. You’ve lost money.” – Marie Osmond

‘Hollywood is the kind of town that likes to make everything larger than life: movie premieres, aging actress’ lips, and murders. Actors come from all over the world to find their sliver of fame on the street of L.A. Many stars rise, but many more fall.’ – Rob Manuel

‘The stars of eternal truth and right have always shone in the firmament of human understanding. The process of bringing them down to earth, remolding them into practical forms, imbuing them with vitality, and then making use of them, has been a long one.’ – Bertha von Suttner

‘I live out here in Malibu, where I can see the stars. So I want to get a really nice telescope so I can look at the stars a little bit more.’ – Kevin Dillon

‘We all know that on Broadway you need to have stars to do a play.’ – David Binder

‘The key to proving that there’s a black hole is showing that there’s a tremendous amount of mass in a very small volume. And you can do that with the motions of stars. The way the star moves around the center of the galaxy is very much like the way the planets orbit the sun.’ – Andrea M. Ghez

‘There’s a large cluster of stars that are orbiting the center of our galaxy. And by measuring the motion of stars, and in particular, their orbits, we can figure out whether or not there’s a central black hole.’ – Andrea M. Ghez

‘If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence.’ – Jules Verne

‘The Emmys is great, but the Golden Globes, you have the stars of television and the stars of movies in one place.’ – Allison Williams

‘I feel fairly certain that my painting skills might not be best shown on ‘Dancing with the Stars.’ I’ll have to come up with another way to showcase that side of me.’ – Derek Hough

‘I was kind of reflecting on my life and certain experiences, and you know, when I’m teaching and coaching my partners on ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ I sort of use those stories and anecdotes to help them sort of overcome certain fears.’ – Derek Hough

‘As I got older, I had a bunch of friends that were various teen stars. I’ve always known people in the spotlight and people who just grew up in L.A. and had nothing to do with the industry. It’s not a glamorous thing to me. It’s just a different type of business.’ – Troian Bellisario

‘There’s no better exercise than dancing. ‘Dancing with the Stars’ is amazing. I used to take it for granted, but the three months you spend on the show, with that grueling regimen, you just shed weight. You can eat anything you want and it doesn’t stick.’ – Maksim Chmerkovskiy

‘There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren’t film stars or theatre actors; they’re very much both.’ – Harry Lloyd

‘After so much reality TV and confessional celebrity interviews, the public is tired of accessible stars. Who needs them to be ‘Just Like Us?’ ‘Just Like Us’ means just as boring as we are.’ – Tina Brown

‘Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It’s the new badge of authenticity.’ – Tina Brown

‘When I started on ‘The West Wing,’ that was at a time when this was still a stigma, because movie stars didn’t do TV. Now, every movie star is desperate to find their ‘True Detective.” – Rob Lowe

‘I’ve been disappointed by so many movie stars that I’ve seen, and they go out and they don’t do it up, you know. And they don’t – I just get so disappointed.’ – Tammy Faye Bakker

‘I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It’s so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the power plant on Earth, that would be an incredible thing.’ – Taylor Wilson

‘I think there’s something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They’re giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.’ – Taylor Wilson

‘I grew up in a family of filmmakers, so I always wanted to make films about animals, especially comical films. Something about animals amuses me. And they have a great mystery. It’s the same mystique some people might feel looking at the stars or the ocean.’ – Isabella Rossellini

‘My feeling is that if there are that many billions of stars, maybe someone is saying exactly what I’m saying at this moment. I don’t know. It’s not something I’m obsessed by or think about all the time, but I certainly open to thinking it could be.’ – Blythe Danner

‘I had always thought about running for high political office, and I was kind of waiting for the stars to line up. And, you know, they don’t hold the door open for you. You kind of have to muscle your way in.’ – Matt Cartwright

‘It’s hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up worm holes into entire new universes.’ – James Altucher

‘There were three great child singing stars: Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder and Jackie Washington.’ – Don Cornelius

‘Movie stars, rich people – oh, they have so many beautiful cars!’ – Bikram Choudhury

‘You know what may be the oddest thing about being a star? Stars have an effect on people. It’s a responsibility, and it’s frightening.’ – Andie MacDowell

‘Liberace was one of the biggest stars in America. He was a kind of a phenomenon.’ – Michael Douglas

‘My memories of Las Vegas were all with my father when I was, like, a teenager. He was best friends with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, and we’d come up and see the shows and go backstage afterwards and have dinner together. It was one of my first educations about stars and how they really are back stage.’ – Michael Douglas

‘I’ve always had the idea that multi-millionaire rock stars should work harder than anyone because they have the ability to do it. Look at an artist like Andy Warhol. He never stopped working, even after he didn’t need to work again.’ – Buzz Osborne