#star

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#being #brazil #career #death #encouraged

I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say. ↗

— Steven Cojocaru

#big mouth #good #i #mouth #now

The criteria, for me, is movie star. It's Hollywood. Not Somalia. ↗

— Steven Cojocaru

#hollywood #me #movie #movie star #somalia

Sometimes you try a song and people don't respond, or you tell a story and you just hear crickets. But when you play thousands of shows, you start to refine stuff. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#just #people #play #refine #respond

The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after. ↗

— Dabney Coleman

#after #airplane #five #flew #four

Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together. ↗

— Gary Coleman

#darth #glued #magnificent #ships #star

I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#box #bring #could #go #got

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service. ↗

— Robert Collier

#always #distant #every #fields #greener

We were brash young fellows'. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with them anyway. I Just started out real early. ↗

— Bootsy Collins

#anyway #brash #cats #crowd #early

I have girlfriends who've had Botox and been left with lumps in their faces. And the lips, don't even get me started. ↗

— Joan Collins

#botox #even #faces #get #girlfriends