Famous Quotes & Sayings

Geoffrey Zakarian

Everybody these days wants to be a star, including myself. Don't get me wrong, I'm a chef but you want to market yourself and your projects.

Gene Hackman

I was trained to be an actor, not a star.

Gene Hackman

If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.

Gene Hackman

If I start to become a star, I'll lose contact with the normal guys I play best.

Gene Hackman

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.

Gene Cernan

I know the stars are my home. I learned about them, needed them for survival in terms of navigation. I know where I am when I look up at the sky. I know where I am when I look up at the Moon; it's not just some abstract romantic idea, it's something very real to me. See, I've expanded my home.

Gary Kemp

We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.

Gary Hamel

Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

Jessica Simpson

Being a musician - it's easier for me to date an athlete. There's too much competition [with a musician]. There's too much know-it-all pop star.

Jessica Simpson

I don`t want people walking out of a movie thinking I was trying to act or be some movie star. I want them to think, `That might make me like Jessica a little bit more.`

Jerry Coleman

Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.

Jim Cummings

I have some calls out to Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Eddie Murphy. I said, 'I won't star in any blockbuster films if you stay out of animated films.' They just won't call me back.

Jessica Pare

I'm thinking of putting together an all-star band. I definitely have a bit of a rock fantasy.

Jessica Pare

There's also something happening in television similar to what happened in the '80s, when people stopped taking so many drugs and wanted to hear real instruments in music again. I think people want plot, story and characters. Those are more important than having a big star.

Jessica Savitch

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

Hunter S. Thompson

You almost have to be a rock star to generate the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.

Humphrey Carpenter

You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.

Humphrey Bogart

You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.

Hubert Selby, Jr.

There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky, but they were content to think of the distant street lights as planets and stars. If the lights prevented you from seeing the heavens, then preform a little magic and change reality to fit the need. The street lights were now planets and stars and moon.

Howard Stern

I think people of lesser talent will become stars.

Howard Bloom

Ancient stars in their death throes spat out atoms like iron which this universe had never known. ... Now the iron of old nova coughings vivifies the redness of our blood.

Ice T

The rock'n'roll lifestyle really is available to anybody that's got money. Honestly. Once you get money, if you interview a hundred people with money, they'll all sound like rock stars.

Ice Cube

You don't have to be super clean to be a super star

Ice Cube

Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public.

Francis Scott Key

O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.' And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Francis Scott Key

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave/O're the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Francis Scott Key

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight O'er the ramplarts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Francis Thompson

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.

Ian Holloway

Sometimes when you aim for the stars, you hit the moon.