quotations about stardom
Stardom is a strange mixture of studio-produced hagiography, fan magazine gossip, and audience desire.
ANONYMOUS
Book Review Digest, 1992
Once I achieved stardom, the whole apparatus of the theater palled on me.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD
Tallulah: My Autobiography
My beloved movie star
There's more than cold cream in your jar
When eyebrows arch and lips are dry
When you're alone at night, you cry
STAN RIDGEWAY
"Beloved Movie Star"
Movie star queen, a movie star queen
Can move me not.
Movie star queen, take off the paint, baby.
THE JACKSON 5
"Nobody"
I am suggesting that the appeal of stardom is that of constant reinvention, the dissolution of contraries, the embrace of wildly opposing terms.
JUDITH MAYNE
Cinema and Spectatorship
You feel like Steve McQueen
When you're driving in your car
And you think you look like James Bond
When you're smoking your cigar
It's so bizarre
You think you are
The new kind of James Dean
But the only thing I've ever seen of you
Was a commercial spot on the screen
HARPO
"Moviestar"
Stardom is no longer the fuel of my soul. It is the deeper aspects of life that nurture me. And I realise I am very blessed.
SHARON STONE
"The Irrepressible Sharon Stone is Stunning in Lovelace", PCM World News, August 2013
Stardom has two general trajectories. First, stardom functions as part of the production process -- it is vital to representation, narrative, and marketing. Once produced, stardom is then consumed by audiences, located in particular, but mobile, sites of time and space. The two dimensions -- production and consumption -- thus work together to generate specific meanings of stardom.
STEPHEN HINERMAN
"Star Culture", Culture in the Communication Age