“A lot of athletes have star quality, but they just can't perform in front of a camera. So no matter how good-looking you are, no matter what kind of presence you have, you still have to be able to be a convincing performer to become a star.” KindStillsMatterAbleStarsQualityFrontsCamerasNo Matter WhatAthletePerformersLooking GoodConvincing Author:Richard D. Zanuck
“Star quality is one of the most difficult things to describe. It emanates from the person, and he may not even understand it himself. It's a quality that separates the star from the rest of us.” MayPersonsStarsDifficultQualityDifficult ThingsEmanate Author:Richard D. Zanuck
“In the 1940s, cigarettes would be shown in classy situations, endorsed by celebrities - real A-list Hollywood stars in America - the ads would make claims about tobacco quality or manufacturing science and, bizarrely, some brands had what almost amounted to health claims.” RealWould BeAmericaStarsQualitySituationHollywoodClaimsListsBrandsAdsCigaretteManufacturingTobaccoHollywood Stars Author:Peter York
“I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.” NeedsLooksKindFilmCertainActorsStarsQualityFiguresParticularOrdinaryIllusionClaimsFilm Stars Author:Stephen Fry
“The fact that astrology nevertheless yields valid results proves that it is not the apparent positions of the stars which work, but rather the times which are measured or determined by arbitrarily named stellar positions. Time thus proves to be a stream of energy filled with qualities and not, as our philosophy would have it, an abstract concept or precondition of knowledge.” PhilosophyFactsEnergyStarsResultsQualityPositionProveConceptsFilledDeterminedAbstractStreamsYieldNeverthelessAstrologyStellar Book:Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal Source: Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal
“Being a movie star is a quality that somebody sort of embodies, and being a celebrity is something that people give to you. It has to do with being recognizable, as opposed to something that people recognize in you. I just hope to make good movies. I know that sounds simple, but it's true.” PeopleKnowsGivingStarsSoundSimpleQualityMovie StarGood Movie Author:Scarlett Johansson
“Seventeen years after its intial release, The Empire Strikes Back is still as thrilling and involving as ever. Because of the high quality of the original product, it doesn't show a hint of dating. Neither [Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope nor Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi] were able to match the narrative scope of Empire, which today remains one of the finest and most rousing science fiction tales ever committed to the screen.” YearsStillsWarShowsTodayAbleStarsFictionQualityProductsReturnDatingOriginalsRemainsScience FictionCommittedStrikesScreensTalesReleaseNarrativeEmpiresEpisodesFinestScopeThrillingHintsInvolvingSeventeenHigh QualityNew HopeStrike BackEmpire Strikes Back Author:James Berardinelli
“In the way that I experience life, the physical world is really just the tip of the iceberg of reality. Whether it's trees or stones or water or animals or stars, everything has an ineffable interior quality.” WorldWayRealityStarsWaterAnimalQualityTreeStonesInteriorsIneffableIcebergTip Of The Iceberg Book:Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred Source: Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred
“I wasn't a babe in the woods. I'd watched a lot of stars, from James Dean to Brando, and I'd seen everybody alive work at MGM. I had a certain old-timer's quality, even though I was young and new, and drew on what I believed before I made it.” MadeYoungCertainStarsQualityAliveWoodsMade ItBabeDeanBrandoTimerMgmOld Timers Author:Jack Nicholson
“I've seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don't do commercials, I don't do films pre-prepared by other people, I don't do star system. So I do my own little thing.” PeopleTryingLittlesBeautifulFilmCertainStarsMy OwnLevelsQualityPreparedLittle Things Author:Agnes Varda
“If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if he can see some kind of bedrock. Perhaps that's the old definition of a star, someone who's always going to come up with the same goods. But it intimates limitation to me and I don't want to think of the job like that.” IfsThinkingWantFeelsKindMightJobsStarsQualityRolesCriticsDefinitionsCome UpLimitationGoodsFeel BetterBedrock Author:Miranda Richardson
“When if comes to ballyhoo, Muhammad Ali made Barnum and Bailey look like non-starters, and he had the incandescent quality of the real star which would have made him famous, even if his gift was knitting not fighting.” IfsLooksMadeRealFightingStarsQualityMuhammadKnittingStarters Author:Michael Parkinson