quotations about stardom
Stardom is becoming, superstardom is being.
ANONYMOUS
Ebony, 1979
Stardom is a strange mixture of studio-produced hagiography, fan magazine gossip, and audience desire.
ANONYMOUS
Book Review Digest, 1992
Remember the tragedy of a great movie star
She brought joy to millions was worshiped from apart
It seems she had everything was gifted from above
Yet took her own life she had everything but love
KITTY WELLS
"Love Makes the World Go Around"
I am suggesting that the appeal of stardom is that of constant reinvention, the dissolution of contraries, the embrace of wildly opposing terms.
JUDITH MAYNE
Cinema and Spectatorship
Movie star queen, a movie star queen
Can move me not.
Movie star queen, take off the paint, baby.
THE JACKSON 5
"Nobody"
Stardom has two general trajectories. First, stardom functions as part of the production process -- it is vital to representation, narrative, and marketing. Once produced, stardom is then consumed by audiences, located in particular, but mobile, sites of time and space. The two dimensions -- production and consumption -- thus work together to generate specific meanings of stardom.
STEPHEN HINERMAN
"Star Culture", Culture in the Communication Age
You feel like Steve McQueen
When you're driving in your car
And you think you look like James Bond
When you're smoking your cigar
It's so bizarre
You think you are
The new kind of James Dean
But the only thing I've ever seen of you
Was a commercial spot on the screen
HARPO
"Moviestar"
Stardom is no longer the fuel of my soul. It is the deeper aspects of life that nurture me. And I realise I am very blessed.
SHARON STONE
"The Irrepressible Sharon Stone is Stunning in Lovelace", PCM World News, August 2013