People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.
I've got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them all to sign it. So that ain't going nowhere. I'm going to die with that in my casket.
If you come up to me in the street, I am going to be delighted to meet you. I became a television star to entertain people, to spread goodness into the world.
Hitch your wagon to a star.
In our day we went from - we went into saloons. We couldn't cross over like you can today, get a television series and all of a sudden you're a major movie star, you know.
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.
I secretly harbor the fantasy of becoming an action star at any moment. I know I'd be great at it.
I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
I'm not real impressed with the Star Trek weaponry, I gotta be honest.
One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.
No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.
Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.
And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.
I've never seen the first three 'Star Wars' movies. It's just not really my genre.
Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.
The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.
And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.
I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done.
If you were brought up in the '40s, a kid in Ossining, New York, hanging out at the poolroom and stealing, how can you think, 'Here I am in Ossining. I, too, can be a movie star!'
Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles.
'Star Trek' never grabbed me. Every time I hear about Klingons, I think of those little lint balls that stick to your clothes in the dryer.
I knew that Jamaica Inn was going to make me a star.
I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star.
But, you know, you can't be a star at home.
I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.
And now it looks like I'm probably going to shoot a movie that I wrote. I got the money to do it, and I would star and all, because of being on Howard.
2017 saw a slew of big pop and hip-hop records, a number of breakout female singer-songwriters and all-girl bands, and the return of beloved '60s soul artist Don Bryant and pop star Kesha.
You're not a star until you love yourself. Directors, yeah, they've got to love their own philosophies. But actors have to really love themselves.
I was brought to Hollywood by Gene Roddenberry and Michael Eisner, chosen from 600 hopefuls to star in the original 'Star Trek' motion picture. The success of the film, coupled with the allure that I had shaved my head for the role, put a spotlight on me.
Acting is about acting, not about being a movie star.
Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.
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.
'Can You See' is a beautiful song that follows a story of the star. It's a very inspirational song.
I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.
I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.
