Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Baker Eddy

Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God.

Martin Gore

More than accepted, it's encouraged for rock stars to be out of control.

Martin Gore

I lead two totally separate lives. There are times when I have to slip into rock star mode.

Martin Heidegger

To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.

Marsha Norman

We are not afraid to look under the bed, or to wash the sheets; we know that life is messy. We know that somebody has to clean it up, and that only if it is cleaned up can we hope to start over, and get better.

Marquis de Sade

The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

Mark McCormack

There are five top superstars in golf, 20 great stars, and 30 good ones. The rest should go and get jobs.

Mark Mothersbaugh

If you're in music just to become a big, fat rock star, then I probably don't like your music to begin with.

Mark Mothersbaugh

I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes.

Mark Millar

One of the things that made Star Wars work was the kids didn't know who their dad was.

Mark Millar

Ever since 1980, sci-fi has generally been more Bladerunner than Star Wars. People talk about Star Wars being the most influential movie of all time and creating the blockbuster along with Jaws and that sort of thing, but really there's not been a space opera that anyone can go and see.

Mark Millar

I was desperate to work with Stuart Immonen, who I have talked with for several years about doing a project together. So just the stars aligned. I knew that Stuart had a little break in his schedule, where he would be willing to do a project with me. So this year I've been very lucky.

Mark Millar

Marvel movies, are seeming slightly less exciting now that Star Wars has appeared and everything.

Mark Millar

Maybe in this Star Wars world maybe subconsciously I was preparing myself. But I've just found all of my ideas I've been coming up with are big sci-fi things, and I wanted to do a big epic, a big space opera, and this is it. This is mine.

Mark Millar

What I wanted to do was drown something enormous, like a Star Trek or Star Wars kind of space opera-type thing, but actually make it about someone who was just married to the wrong guy, and that guy just happens to be this amazing dictator, and she has to get her kids as far away as possible from this guy. So something that could almost be a TV movie, if you'd ground it and set it in Wisconsin or something like that, but to give it this enormous setting.

Mark Millar

It's been a very interesting exercise as a writer - writing a little family group, like The Incredibles or The Simpsons or something like that, and setting it in a big Star Wars-type setting. It's been really fun, definitely different from the kind of thing I normally do.

Marilyn Monroe

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

Marilyn Monroe

I want to say to the people, if I am a star, the people made me a star. No studio, no person, but the people did.

Marilyn Monroe

I'm going to be a great movie star some day.

Marilyn Monroe

It was my fans who made me a star.

Marilyn Monroe

Ever since I became a movie star,I've been really weird.

Marilyn Monroe

My travels have always been of the same kind. No matter where I've gone or why I've gone there it ends up that I never see anything. Becoming a movie star is living on a merry-go-round. When you travel you take the merry-go-round with you. You don't see natives or new scenery. You see chiefly the same press agents, the same sort of interviewers, and the same picture layouts of yourself.

Marilyn Monroe

Hollywood parties not only confuse me, but they often disillusion me. The disillusion comes when I meet a movie star I’ve been admiring since childhood. I always thought that movie stars were exciting and talented people full of special personality. Meeting one of them at a party I discover usually that he (or she) is colorless and even frightened. I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

Marilyn Monroe

If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.

Marilyn Monroe

The only thing a star asks is to be allowed to twinkle.

Marilyn Monroe

It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.

Marilyn Monroe

You can't sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way.

Nikki Sanderson

The most wonderful person I met was John Travolta. He's one of the ultimate movie stars of all time.

Nikki Sanderson

Taking part on this show is a million miles away from my normal acting jobs.

Nikki Sixx

I'm finding that people reading the book [ The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star] are saying, "You came from one background, I came from this background - you were a rock star, I was a CEO. I didn't have a heroin/coke problem, but I had a pill problem. But I also fell from grace, didn't know how to get recovery, and I am now in recovery." People tell me that their kids read it and told them they'll never do drugs - "This book really shows me where it goes."

Niecy Nash

In one day, I got mistaken for three different actresses: Wendy Williams, Sherri Shepherd, and Star Jones.

Nicole Scherzinger

To be honest, I miss the old Hollywood way of having some mystique about the star.

Nicki Minaj

I feel like I'm a designer, not a pop star. But if certain people think of me like a pop star, then the only thing I could do about this is dye my hair black and cut it short maybe.