Famous Quotes & Sayings

Teresa Wright

I only ever wanted to be an actress, not a star.

Teresa Palmer

There aren't a lot of movie star males around my age that I can play opposite.

Teri Hatcher

My advice, Be healthy, reach your own goals and don't be afraid to impersonate a SNL star.

Ted Nugent

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.

Theodore Parker

It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.

Theodore Parker

Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at.

Theodore Roosevelt

Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground.

Theodore Roosevelt

Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.

Thandie Newton

I don't put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and I want to be challenged by the roles I take.

Marcus Garvey

Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa! Let us work towards the one glorious end of a free, redeemed and mighty nation. Let Africa be a bright star among the constellation of nations.

Kina Grannis

I don't have any rock star demeanor to me. I just can't pull that off.

Kevin Sorbo

On losing the opportunity to star in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman 'You know what? It happened for the right reason. Although I would have made a good Clark Kent. I look better in glasses.

Michael Flatley

My dancers are the real stars,

Michael Bergin

It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful.

Melissa McCarthy

I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.' But sure, criticism can sometimes still get to me. Some things are so malicious, they knock the wind out of you. It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction... Would you ever put [America's plus-size sweetheart] in the headline for a male star?

Melissa McCarthy

It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the headline for a male star?

Melissa Etheridge

I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it's nice to have your dad go, 'Hey Melissa, I'm proud of you - you're doing good.'

Melissa Etheridge

I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.

Michael Stipe

Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.

Michael P. Anderson

I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'

Michael Parkinson

When if comes to ballyhoo, Muhammad Ali made Barnum and Bailey look like non-starters, and he had the incandescent quality of the real star which would have made him famous, even if his gift was knitting not fighting.

Michael Ondaatje

Between the kitchen and the destroyed chapel a door led into an oval-shaped library. The space inside seemed safe except for a large hole at portrait level in the far wall, caused by mortar-shell attack on the villa two months earlier. The rest of the room had adapted itself to this wound, accepting the habits of weather, evening stars, the sound of birds.

Michael McCaul

There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.

Michael Hutchence

Actually, I find it embarrassing being a pop star. I prefer it when people just treat me like anybody else, although occasionally there is a side of me, which is indulgent and I expect certain things because of my position. It's one of the perks

Michael Hutchence

Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.

Judd Apatow

I think there have been so many documentaries about pop stars, made by pop stars. It's a new phenomenon. People making these movies where they praise themselves and show their own weaknesses. it's all designed to make you love them even more.

Joseph Stefano

Hitch suggested a name actress to play Marion because the bigger the star the more unbelievable it would be that we would kill her.

Joseph Stalin

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.

Little Milton

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.

Leonardo DiCaprio

I remember when I first started having these interpretations of these images, these clichés of what movie stars are and this and that, and they're egomaniacal pricks and tyrants, but in general, for the most part, they're nice people to tell you the truth.

Leonardo DiCaprio

You can either be a vain movie star, or you can try to shed some light on different aspects of the human condition.

Leonardo da Vinci

Fix your course on a star and you'll navigate any storm.

Leonardo da Vinci

The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.