You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.
I always knew I was a star And now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me.
I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.
I would like to see a fierce Fantasia mixed with Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars all in one. That's the kind of movies I want to make.
I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.
When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.
As a little girl, I didn't dream of being a ballet dancer; I dreamt of being a movie star like Ginger Rogers and dancing with Fred Astaire. I used to watch the Sunday double-bills on TV and Iong to be part of what seemed a perfect Disneyland world. Astaire was a genius.
I have a lot of musician friends. I worked in radio as a music director, and I know everybody hears about the George Straits and the Garth Brooks and the Kenny Chesneys and all that, but for every major star, there are thousands who didn't quite make it.
I desperately wanted to play the part of Darth Vader's mother - I think she ended up being played by a Scandinavian actress - because my son was completely crazy about 'Star Wars.'
Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's.
When I was involved with 'Star Wars,' I was very interested in all the backstories, and I used to pepper George with all kinds of questions about anything that crossed my mind, because I was very, very into it. But when the job came to an end, I had to move on.
Star Trek characters never go shopping.
I came from a classical background, and I was teaching and earning a living out of music at a certain level, so it's funny to make it as a rock star when we're 40 or whatever.
I'm the star of the show. I should have a decent haircut.
As the sun outshines the brightest star in the heavens, dispels every vestige of darkness and gives life and light to all beings, so, in a not too distant future, will the true religion of Christ supersede and obliterate all other religions, to the eternal benefit of mankind.
But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines.
I knew that this was going to be questioned and it was going to come under skepticism as to why I left 'Star Wars'.
I haven't done the Star Wars kind of films.
I don't conduct myself like a rock 'n' roll star in my day-to-day living. Am I a celebrity? Yes. Do people recognize me on the street? Yes, they do. But at the same time, it's not a media center out here. People get used to you.
None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives.
This guy Simon Helberg, who's in 'Florence Foster Jenkins,' I might have been vaguely patronizing to him because he hadn't done films before. Gradually, you realize, not only is the guy a much bigger star than me, he's maybe the richest man I've ever met.
We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
Being an ex-child star is not a given.
If an original piece of wardrobe came up from Star Wars, I'd probably spend a lot of money on it.
Isn't everybody a 'Star Wars' fan?
I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.
You know, 'Star Wars' - even when it gets dark, it comes back to the light - it makes you feel good. I think families enjoy watching it and sharing in it.
Nobody just said, 'Here, be a star!' I've joked many times that I was a seven-year overnight success.
I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.
I'm introverted, and I pay attention to my muse... Record companies used to go mad and say 'We don't know the deal with you. You have no continuity at all. You give us 'Addicted to Love,' and you're a rock n' roll star, then you give us 'She Makes My Day,' and what's that?' But that was a hit, too. It either gets across or it doesn't.
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
I have no ambitions to be a pop star.
All the people in Star Trek will always be known as those characters. And what characters to have attached to your name in life! The show is such a phenomenon all over the world.
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.
My grandma is kind of a rock star. She goes to France and all over.
