Quotations on / about star

You know when there's a star, like in show business, the star has her name in lights on the marquee! Right? And the star gets the money because the people come to see the star, right? Well, I'm the star, and all of you are in the chorus.

(Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1911-1956), U.S. athlete. As quoted in WomenSports magazine, p. 55 (December 1977). Said in the 1940s to her sister golfers at a meeting she had called of the Ladies' Professional Golf Association.)
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Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages.... Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent, without heat and full of melancholy. But alas! the rising tide of democracy, which spreads everywhere and reduces everything to the same level, is daily carrying away these last champions of human pride, and submerging, in the waters of oblivion, the last traces of these remarkable myrmidons.

(Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet. repr. In Selected Writings on Art and Artists, ed. P.E. Charvet (1972). "The Painter of Modern Life," sct. 9, L'Art Romantique (1869).)
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For each inclosed spirit is a star
Enlightening his own little sphere,

(Henry Vaughan (1622-1695), Welsh poet. The Bird (l. 19-20). . . Poets of the English Language, Vols. I-V. Vol. I: Langland to Spenser; Vol. II: Marlowe to Marvell; Vol. III: Milton to Goldsmith; Vol. IV: Blake to Poe; Vol. V: Tennyson to Yeats. W. H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson, eds. (1950) The Viking Press.)
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These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights,
That give a name to every fixed star,
Have no more profit of their shining nights
Than those that walk and wot not what they are.

(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Biron, in Love's Labour's Lost, act 1, sc. 1.)
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The elaborate star-light throws a reflection
On the dark stream,
Till all the eddies gleam;
And thereupon there comes that scream
From terrified, invisible beast or bird:
Image of poignant recollection.

(William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright. "An Image from a Past Life.")
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Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.

(E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist. repr. In Abinger Harvest (1936). "Our Diversions: The Game of Life," (1919).)
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The flattering, if arbitrary, label, First Lady of the Theatre, takes its toll. The demands are great, not only in energy but eventually in dramatic focus. It is difficult, if not impossible, for a star to occupy an inch of space without bursting seams, cramping everyone else's style and unbalancing a play. No matter how self-effacing a famous player may be, he makes an entrance as a casual neighbor and the audience interest shifts to the house next door.

(Helen Hayes (1900-1993), U.S. actor. On Reflection, ch. 6 (1968). Hayes, a professional actress from age five until into her seventies, was by this time routinely referred to as the "First Lady of the Theater.")
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