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“It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Suppose every photo of me ever taken was an infinitesimal piece? Every magazine ad, every negative, every frame of motion picture film - another tiny molecule of me, stolen away to feed an audience that is *never* satiated. And when someone is fully consumed - vampirized - they move on, still hungry, to pick their next victim by making him or her a star. That's why they're called consumers. ("Red Light")”
― David J. Schow, Seeing Red

“A Star is always a star no matter what stage they are on or at”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“I mean to tell you, the Law's notion of justice is more cold-blooded than any outlaw I ever knew. And I mean 'outlaw,' not criminal. 'Criminal' doesn't distinguish between guys like men and the guys who own the banks and insurance companies and stock markets, who own the factories and coal mines and oil fields, who own the goddamn Law. I once said to John that being an outlaw was about the only way left for a man to hold on to his self-respect, and he said Ain't that the sad truth. The girls laughed along with us because they knew it wasn't a joke.... John got the publicity because he loved it ... he carried on like the whole thing was an adventure movie and he was Douglas Fairbanks. He wanted to to be a 'star.' That's how he was. Not me. I never even liked having my picture taken. All I ever wanted was to show the bastards who own the law that it didn't mean they owned me.”
― James Carlos Blake, Handsome Harry

“We Close In Fifteen Minutes by Stewart Stafford

Found myself the only taker,
Of a minefield guided tour,
Through no man's land life,
Every exit is now invisible.

Stardom magnified my flaws,
A broken man lost in a maze,
A deadly structure's hostage,
A hermit in denial's labyrinth.

Glimpse dwindling fragments,
In the looking glass of hubris,
Flounder in glossy quicksand,
The solutions devoured whole.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Royal Young has accomplished a rare feat in his fresh and riveting debut: he manages to recount his fascinating youth and unconventional family with a mixture of humor, scathing honesty and tenderness. Much more than simply a book about a kid who dreams of stardom, Fame Shark is a thoughtful, hilarious and moving love letter to his family and the Lower East Side of New York City.”
― Kristen Johnston, Guts: The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster

“Don't be so obsessed with stardom that you miss out on success”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Be a star not a diva!”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“The thespian is an impostor, but the paying crowd colludes fully in the fraud as they seek to leave real problems behind to indulge in the fictitious ones of another. Hence adulation towards a performer starts.”
― Stewart Stafford

“You don't always keep on the top", she began again. "My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I've either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure, which is silly because everybody always asks me, 'How does it feel to make a comeback?' And I don't know where I've been! I haven't been away." She paused, and Vangkilde waited. "It's lonely and cold on the top...lonely and cold," she said very quietly.”
― Anne Edwards, Judy Garland

“Sarcasm is the new staircase to stardom.”
― Ahmed Mostafa

“truly this is one of the few advantages of being a star - or rather a former star, in my case: when you meet someone else and you arrive, as you might normally expect, at a point where you're both bored, even though neither of the two is precisely the cause of it, in some way by common agreement, it's always the other who bears the responsibility for it, who feels guilty for not having kept the conversation at a sufficiently high level, for not having known how to establish a sufficiently warm and sparkling atmosphere. This situation is comforting, and even relaxing as soon as one truly begins not to give a fuck.”
― Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island

“You don’t have to be born into a family of fifty to be successful. You can be one in a million all by yourself.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

“And the face you step on while clawing your way out of an ordinary life may be the last one you see in the end."

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― Per Hampton

“Make yourself into a battery to store some of this feeling; it is the currency of your life... There will be many months and some years where you will receive no payments at all... while your friends buy dogs and houses.”
― Dessa, Tits on the Moon

“You are often unable to hold on to personal heroes or villains. Inevitably you will meet your hero, and he may turn out to be less than impressive, while your villain turns out to be the coolest cat you’ve ever met. You never can tell, so you eventually learn to live without a rooting interest in the parade of stars, musicians, sports champions, and politicians. And you lose the ability to participate in the real American pastime: beating up on people you don’t like and glorifying people you do.”
― Rob Lowe, Stories I Only Tell My Friends