Best Big Star Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I would do songwriting sessions from the age of 14, and label heads flattered me over fancy dinners. 'We'll put you in a room with this big star,' they'd say. 'This one loves your music.' 'Your life will change forever.'”

“Look at 'Bonanza.' If you rely on a gimmick or one big star, you've got a problem.”

“Just like I have all the capabilities to become a big star, Golden Boy has all the tools to get me there.”

“I do see myself being that big star. I do believe I have the skills and ability to be that big star. I just need to be me, be fan friendly and keep connecting with the boxing fans.”

“It was really good working with Paresh Rawal. I was nervous at first because he is such a big star and I love his performances, but the initial nervousness went away once I got to know him. He is a very simple and hardworking man.”

“The catch in the industry is that if you want to get a picture made for little money, you have to get a big star. But the two are usually mutually exclusive.”

“Mahesh is a big star, but he doesn't like to flash his money.”

“I trained with a guy by the name of Scott Casey. He actually worked with WWE back in the day, but he didn't become a big star. What I want to teach is what he taught me: that the smallest things are what people are really looking for.”

“People keep saying EC3 is the heart and soul of TNA: that he's this homegrown star, and he is going to be this big star. But fans don't understand that I'm the true star - I came off Vince McMahon's TV.”

“We've always had a simple philosophy in casting. We don't care if somebody's a big star or a little star. We just want the best possible actor for the part.”

“If you've got a big star like O'Reilly, it does overshadow what the hard-news guys do during the day. That's the nature of television.”

“I always wanted to be a big star.”

“I'm not gonna lie: I was not a big 'Star Wars' geek.”

“When I walk down the street, it's not like people feel like they're seeing some big star. It's like someone they've known for a long time, someone that they feel comfortable with.”

“You have to wait for a big star to come in and generate interest on a project, and now that has become me, which is an amazing blessing.”

“Jensen Ackles has everything I want. He's in great shape. He's got a full head of hair. He's got a square jawline. He's a big star!”

“I always dreamed of getting in WWE and becoming a big star. But it's not something you could ever guarantee. It's like a kid wanting to play in the Premier League.”

“When you're working with a big star, you always wonder what it's going to be like. Hugh Jackman puts you at ease within 10 minutes. He has such a wonderful energy and is so generous when you're doing a scene. He's just so funny and friendly and playful - he instantly becomes your friend.”

“I used to think I was a big star. And I used to think that the TV industry, Balaji, and my show will not survive without me. But then I realised that you cannot be bigger than your work.”

“Michael worked one day. Everybody was a little freaked out and nervous because he's a really big star. We were already working with really big stars, but Michael is Michael.”

“And I learned a lot from working with this kid, and I think he's gonna be a big star. Remember the name, Tim Dark, because he has something about his voice that's different from all the other rappers, even though his style is similar.”

“Long before the UFC, I was a fan of Mark Hunt. To me, he was a big star before he stepped foot inside the Octagon.”

“See, I am straight woman, but Tanushree Dutta made me a lesbian. She used me thinking I will not become a big star and reveal what she did to the public. She is wrong.”

“I used to be a big 'Star Search' fan. I think it's great people who have a music dream have a place to showcase their talent.”

“Dolly Ki Doli' excited me because it has unique characters. Though it is a smaller film and without a big star, it is still a mainstream film.”

“I can't compete with really big stars. I'm not a big star; I'm just an actor who came from Delhi to pursue her passion.”

“It's an institution that was born with my brother Chetan and me. I did it for him. I was becoming a big star in the late 1940s, and he needed a company to make films. So when he left Navketan, I brought in Goldie, and when Goldie left, I carried on alone. No book on Indian cinema is complete without mention of Navketan.”

“I don't think I am a very big star on TV.”

“Why can't I ever play a nice, normal, salt-of-the-earth type? Is there something I should know? It's fun to play villains and character roles, of course - but I'm sure it's also fun to be a really big star and play the lead in everything, where all you have to do is show up and not blink.”

“I've had days here and there where I would get discouraged because I wasn't a big star, but I've made a living ever since I was 27. Not a great living, but enough for me. I think actually being able to pay my rent and eat and perform is enough, and I did that for many years. Then I had some good years in there, too, where I made pretty good money.”

“Maybe it's because I've been an actor for such a long time, but I think, unless you're a big star, you don't really have much control over anything. I've never been able to make any plans.”

“I'll never be the biggest kind of star; I'll be like Bob Duvall, respected as an actor but a lot of people can't identify the face. I don't have the personality of a big star, or the looks of a Mel Gibson or a Paul Newman, or the style of a George C. Scott.”

“I wasn't a big star in the school plays or anything.”

“The UFC will always need to have a Plan B when they have a big star fight me.”

“People told me all of the time, 'You could be such a big star if you just talked about yourself more,' but I'm not good at that. It's always been about team.”

“I'm not worried about being a big star.”

“Being a big, big, big star, to me, is not being successful.”

“Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation.”

“Sometimes your films don't do well, despite having a big star cast, renowned directors and producers.”

“I have a wish list for 'Awwal.' I want to work with Ajay Devgn. I need an entertainer, a big star as this is a big film. I feel Ajay will be suitable for the film. He can seriously carry a comic role.”

“I was 19. 'The One And Only' was my first record. It went to No. 1 and I was this big star. I thought that was what happened when you released records. Of course that is not normal. It's a great record and I'm still really proud of it but I think it was a bit of a fluke.”

“I don't want to get any bigger - what does a 'big star' mean? I just want to be loved.”

“I've always known I was going to be a big star, so I need a big stage and a big platform.”

“Remember, I'm the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I've never felt like I'm a big star at any level of my life.”

“Now when people say, 'Oh, you're going to be such a big star!' I simply don't listen.”

“I'm preparing myself to be a great, great fighter and also a big star in the sport.”

“I don't want to be a big star. I just want to get my message across.”

“I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.”

“The first real gig I went to was Randy Crawford in 1980. Seeing a big star like that was just fantastic.”

“I don't know if I want to be a big star though.”

“Frank Sinatra discovered me at a nightclub called P.J.'s in Hollywood. It was 1962. He used to come in there a lot with all his big star friends. I was so nervous to see him. I've only had one idol in my life, and that was Frank Sinatra.”

“Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.”

“Many times, one does get interesting work, but it is also work that doesn't get funded because one sure-shot way to get funding is to take a big star.”

“I'm not interested in being a really big star. I want to be in control of my life. I don't want to worry about the rent.”

“It's like, sometimes I'll watch a movie, and it's got some big star in it playing a working-class person, and the character is in a grocery store, and you can kind of tell, from just watching the scene, that this actor doesn't do their own shopping. So you have to have some sense of reality.”

“I didn't want to be a big star. I wanted to be a really good actor.”

“I'm a big 'Star Wars' fan and grew up watching the movies. I read all the books and have read 'Star Wars' fiction that went between the newest trilogy and the original trilogy and it was part of my childhood.”

“I can't be the big star in the family. We have a family, and we are all equal.”

“I'm not a big star in Japan. I'm an actor. I have a very normal life. Four days a week, I cook at home. A star doesn't do that.”

“I'm not in a real rush to be a big star.”

“Dev Anand was extremely cooperative towards a newcomer. He never made me feel that he was a big star and I, a newcomer.”

“Flops are always disappointing, but 'High Fidelity' was devastating. Not that I thought it was going to make me a big star, but I did think it was going to run longer than a week and a half.”

“I never think of myself as a big star. Getting good scripts is all I think about. I don't have a godfather or anyone to take care of me. To move forward, I have to be very careful in choosing the right scripts, the right director, and the right technicians.”

“To make a breakthrough in Hollywood, you have to be committed to doing it, which is true of anything in life. I was already a big star in India and I stayed with that.”

“Lynda Carter, I think the reason I liked her was because she was so down to earth. Even though she was a big star and she was Miss America, she was very approachable.”

“I lived in buses. I didn't really have anything else. I didn't feel like a female, and I ended up really kind of isolated. Everybody thinks you're so happy and so wealthy and such a big star, but you're really kind of lonely and don't know how to stop it.”

“Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me.”

“But I don't think I was ever destined to be a big star.”

“Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too.”

“I guess I've always had a - not really thought of myself as this big star, big identity in the game.”

“Before 'Grease,' John Travolta was a big star from 'Welcome Back Kotter'... but that's not where I met him. I met him at unemployment when we first moved to California.”

“If you think that one should do a commercial picture because everyone is doing it and that one will become a big star after that, I think that if you don't have that grain in you, it will not happen.”

“I know I want to work for my whole life because I know I can't live without music or dancing. But I don't know if I want to be a big star.”

“When I started in movies, they said I'd be this big star, but I was only a moderate one. Not enough good pictures. It's important to be in a good piece of work no matter the size of one's own part.”

“Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously.”

“I have three daughters who grew up while I was working on the special editions and the prequels. They got to be big 'Star Wars' fans. And, you know, I would see them identifying with a lot of the male characters, and I just thought, 'Star Wars' could use more good strong female leads.'”

“Star cast is very important, for the songs to fly again. You need someone like a Shah Rukh Khan or a Salman Khan, a big star in the film. They will make sure that the song is taken to a different level.”

“I'm a big 'Star Trek' fan.”

“Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.”

“You have to remember that in the microcosm of Cincinnati, Ohio, through northern Kentucky, my father was a big star, still is. So that made my sister and me really visible. Everybody knew us, talked about us.”

“High school girls love me. Fourteen to eighteen, I'm a big star with them.”

“This is a group effort. This is group theatre. This is no big star turn. You could do things with it to do that but it would just be out of kilter. This is one reason I like this play. This is a unit.”