#star

It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood? ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#bands #does #explain #first #funny

When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#break #come #down #experience #feeling

There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working. ↗

— Robert Half

#long #retirement #some #start #stop

They all matter to me, whether I'm working on a Sam Jackson film for a week or I'm the star of my own TV series - I take it all very seriously, and I have a healthy respect for the work in general, despite the role. ↗

— Anthony Michael Hall

#film #general #healthy #i #jackson

If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens. ↗

— Daryl Hall

#bunch #entourage #funny #happens #put

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. ↗

— Irv Kupcinet

#day #diet #new #optimist #person

Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing. ↗

— Jami Gertz

#away #being #camp #first #first time

Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can't imagine a greater success than she's enjoyed. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#firmament #greater #i #imagine #institution

What started it all was the Kanye album, 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.' We started listening to that and just fell in love with it, fell in love with his production style. ↗

— Andrew Dost

#beautiful #dark #fantasy #fell #his

When I started, I knew I didn't fit any visual that anyone was going to lie down and take their clothes off about. Work doesn't come to me; I go out and look for it. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#any #anyone #clothes #come #down