You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the dancers - the not-yet stars, the up-and-comers.
Sometimes while gazing at the night's sky, I imagine stars looking down making wishes on the brightest of us.
Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today's starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses.
Well, you know, we all grew up as 'Star Wars' fans.
I'm a geek - I read fantasy novels, I play 'World of Warcraft,' I'm a massive gamer, I have 'Star Trek' outfits.
I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.
I always believe that ideas are like shooting stars when you have one make it happen and not just wish.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
I never thought of myself as a movie star. I'm just a working girl. A working girl who worked her way to the top - and never fell off.
Sometimes, I feel the reason I have become a star beyond my films is that I am politically incorrect.
Many comedic stars have tried to a do a 'Night at the Museum' type film, in which an everyday Joe reacts to insane circumstances. Many flat out failed.
If you want to make breakthroughs to reach the stars, it is best that you board a ship that has already started its journey in that direction.
Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The Da Vinci Code,' including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare.
I'm an actress, and that's why I'm still here. Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding themselves.
If I could catch a Star and hold it in my hand. I would illuminate those whose life is not so grand.
To build an empire - or win seven Tour de Frances in a row - you must have a Lone Star-size ego and a dash of megalomania.
One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.
When I came out to L. A., I got a part in an episode of 'Star Trek: Voyager,' and I hired an acting coach.
Doctor Who is like any long-running series in that the cast tend to look to the star to set the general tone. Rehearsals and filming could be a lot of fun.
In an ideal world, the perfect biographical subject would have been the star of his penmanship class at grade school - and would thereafter write an English that positively sings.
