A Quote by Michael Cimino

What we forget is that the Academy is a star-maker, or it reinforces the stardom of people.

Michael Cimino

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Academy Forget Maker People Star Stardom

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Michael Cimino
American - Director
February 3, 1939 - July 2, 2016

In the early days of film, fans used to idolize a whole star - they would take one star and love everything about that star ... Today people can idolize a star in one area and forget about him in another. A big rock star might sell millions and millions of records, but then if he makes a bad movie ... forget it.

Andy Warhol

I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it's a lot of work. It's work to be a star. I don't enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.

Barbra Streisand

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

Hedy Lamarr

I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star.

Ray Davies

I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while.

Randeep Hooda

It's one of the wonderful things that the Academy does - a talented person comes along like Mira Sorvino, and it elevates them up to stardom.

Michael Cimino

The Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie was an unexpected, unplanned pop culture phenomena. My father went from star-maker to star.

Shawn Amos

I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

Rachael Taylor

...We have seven people who knew the skewers were there: the wedding planner, the reception hall manager, the dressmaker, the florist, the veil-maker, the cake-maker, and the caterer. I haven't ruled out the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker, either.

Linda Howard

Stardom doesn't appeal to me in anyway. Of course, I want people to like my work, but in my mind I've consciously created a line where I don't think of myself as a big star.

Arvind Swami

I don't wish stardom on anyone. When I hear people say, 'this guy's a star,' I always say, 'good luck.'

B. J. Armstrong

There are people who fly to the height of stardom in a single day, and then there are people like me. I used to have this ridiculous idea that I absolutely had to be a big, big movie star. Now all I'm after is happiness.

Teri Polo

Stardom is just an uneasy seat on top of a tricky toboggan. Being a star is merely perching at the head of the downgrade. A competent featured player can last a lifetime. A star, a year or two. There's all that agony of finding suitable stories, keeping in character, maintaining illusion.