Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thandie Newton

I don't put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and I want to be challenged by the roles I take.

Marcus Garvey

Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa! Let us work towards the one glorious end of a free, redeemed and mighty nation. Let Africa be a bright star among the constellation of nations.

Kina Grannis

I don't have any rock star demeanor to me. I just can't pull that off.

Kevin Sorbo

On losing the opportunity to star in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman 'You know what? It happened for the right reason. Although I would have made a good Clark Kent. I look better in glasses.

Michael Flatley

My dancers are the real stars,

Michael Bergin

It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful.

Melissa McCarthy

I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.' But sure, criticism can sometimes still get to me. Some things are so malicious, they knock the wind out of you. It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction... Would you ever put [America's plus-size sweetheart] in the headline for a male star?

Melissa McCarthy

It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the headline for a male star?

Melissa Etheridge

I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it's nice to have your dad go, 'Hey Melissa, I'm proud of you - you're doing good.'

Melissa Etheridge

I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.

Michael Stipe

Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.

Michael P. Anderson

I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'

Michael Parkinson

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.

Michael Ondaatje

Between the kitchen and the destroyed chapel a door led into an oval-shaped library. The space inside seemed safe except for a large hole at portrait level in the far wall, caused by mortar-shell attack on the villa two months earlier. The rest of the room had adapted itself to this wound, accepting the habits of weather, evening stars, the sound of birds.

Michael McCaul

There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.

Michael Hutchence

Actually, I find it embarrassing being a pop star. I prefer it when people just treat me like anybody else, although occasionally there is a side of me, which is indulgent and I expect certain things because of my position. It's one of the perks

Michael Hutchence

Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.

Meat Loaf

It's like people call me a rock star or this or that. And I go, 'Don't call me that. I don't think of myself in those terms. If you have to call me anything, call me a chameleon.

Max Muller

I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.

Max Lucado

God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.

Max Lucado

Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you." Eli to Punchinello (p. 25)

Max Lucado

God is able to place stars in their sockets & suspend sky like a curtain; surely He is mighty enough to light your path.

Max Lucado

I think it's noteworthy that the Almighty didn't act high and mighty. The Holy One wasn't holier-than-thou. The One who knew it all wasn't a know-it-all. The One who made the stars didn't keep his head in them. The One who owns all the stuff of earth never strutted it.

Max Lucado

God must've had a blast. painting the stripes on the zebra, hanging the stars in the sky, putting the gold in the sunset. What creativity! Stretching the neck of the giraffe, putting the flutter in the mockingbird's wings, planting the giggle in the hyena. And then, as a finale to a brilliant performance, He made a human who had the unique honour to bear the stamp, In His Image.

Max Lucado

Nature is God's first missionary. Where there is no Bible there are sparkling stars. Where there are not preachers there are spring times... If a person has nothing but nature, then nature is enough to reveal something about God.

Max Lucado

The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that.

Maureen McCormick

Stars now also have problems with drugs, and it can be even harder being so out in the public eye - it's hard for them to keep their sanity and normal self present, but they can do it.

Maureen O'Hara

Every star has that certain something that stands out and compels us to notice them.

Maureen O'Hara

I knew that Jamaica Inn was going to make me a star.

Matthew Vaughn

I'm a Star Wars fanatic.

Matthew Lillard

Being onstage is like being rock star. Whereas if you're doing a movie, it's such a confined space. You know, you do a comedy, it's so hard, too, 'cause with a comedy, there's no vocal reaction, there's no energy that you get back that spurs you on to be funnier because everyone has to be quiet.

Matt LeBlanc

'Friends' was a true ensemble. There really was no star of the show.

Mayer Hawthorne

I didn't appreciate Mick Jagger until I got older, and mainly because of the Mick Jagger swagger. He defined that for the world. He was bold and adventurous with it, too - just the ultimate rock star.