Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthew Perry

It's tough to have a movie-star persona when you're on a show as successful as 'Friends.'

Marin Ireland

The ultimate idea of rags-to-riches success in America is the Hollywood movie star.

Marina Sirtis

I wasnt a Star Trek fan, yet I knew who all the characters were. that goes to show what an impact the show had not just in entertainment but in life. I knew who Chekhov was and I knew who Kirk and Spock were, although I probably had never seen the show.

Marina Sirtis

I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my 'Star Trek' character and I've been turning them down. I strongly feel that the next role I do, I should not be wearing spandex.

Marina Sirtis

The thing about 'Star Trek' is that it is not judgmental. You can do what ever you want, within reason.

Marina and the Diamonds

Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star has always been blonde.

Marina and the Diamonds

I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star.

Marina Abramovic

Woody Allen has a wonderful line: 'Today I'm a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?' That's very important to know - that you have the moment, then you lose the moment. You have to see your chances, you have to take them, and you also have to see when you don't have chances to take.

Marilynne Robinson

I think I am like most people in letting myself worry about things that didn't matter. Concepts like quotidian and humdrum prevented me for years from really absorbing the miraculous strangeness of bombing around a star on a tottering planet, of watching the world unfold in time.

Maria Montessori

Watch the unending activity of the flowing stream or the growing tree. See the breakers of the ocean, the unceasing movements of the earth, the planets, the sun and the stars. All creation is life, movement, work.

Mary Steenburgen

I'd never studied film. I had movies that I loved and movie stars that I looked up to, but I really had not seen a lot of the great classic films that he felt like he wanted me to see before I took on such a huge role.

Mary Steenburgen

It was a few days later I came out to Hollywood for a screen test, and so did a lot of other people. So, I really didn't think I would get it. I was definitely the one that was least likely to get it, because everyone else was an already established star.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

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.

Paddy Considine

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.'

Pablo Neruda

The birds of night peck at the first stars that flash like my soul when I love you.

Pablo Neruda

Love has to be…flowering like the stars, and measureless as a kiss.

Pablo Neruda

I walked around as you do, investigating the endless star, and in my net, during the night, I woke up naked, the only thing caught, a fish trapped inside the wind.

Pablo Neruda

Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south? Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed.

Pablo Neruda

Love is the mystery of water and a star.

Pablo Neruda

The night is shattered, and the blue stars shiver in the distance.

Pablo Neruda

With which stars do they go on speaking,the rivers that never reach the sea?

Pablo Neruda

Loving is a journey with water and with stars, with smothered air and abrupt storms of flour: loving is a clash of lightning-bolts and two bodies defeated by a single drop of honey.

Pablo Neruda

You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.

Pablo Neruda

And I, infinitesima­l being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind.

P. J. O'Rourke

The commies are the only people on earth who think Star Wars will work. If they're that gullible, maybe we should have held the summit at Atlantic City and let them lose all their missiles playing Keno.

Plato

Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.

Plato

And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves, then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars and the spangled heaven...Last of all he will be able to see the sun.

Philip Wylie

The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.

Philip Zimbardo

Most of us hide behind egocentric biases that generate the illusion that we are special. These self-serving protective shields allow us to believe that each of us is above average on any test of self-integrity. Too often we look to the stars through the thick lens of personal invulnerability when we should also look down to the slippery slope beneath our feet.

Paula Cole

I struggled with being in the public eye, losing my anonymity when my star rose quickly in the late 90's. But I need the challenge of showing up and getting up there to spill my guts and connect with my loyal folks.

Paula Abdul

When you wish upon a star, you just might become one.

Paula Abdul

I signed on with Disney to star and choreograph an original film.

Paul Weller

A lot of young artists and musicians that we work with, you think they're gonna want to come in and buy the rock star-looking leather jacket - whatever it is that you think they're gonna want. They all want a suit. They want a tuxedo jacket, they want a suit. They don't want to look like their dad in it, but they want a suit.