Shura Quotes

You can always spot the professionals. Taylor Swift, she knows what she's doing.

While certainly no pressing threat to Gordon Lightfoot, I knew it was simply a matter of time until I was going to be a star.

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.

People have such false perceptions of how stardom really works.

I've never really aspired to the spotlight; I just wanted to do music, which is kind of weird because music comes with that spotlight.

The real stars are not good actors or actresses. They're personalities.

For me, Michael Jackson was a star. Amitabh Bachchan and Salman Khan are stars. They are the ones who own and carry stardom.

To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn't art, but the person you become when you're famous - your alter ego - that's art.

My whole life is about being Nicki Minaj now. It's a never-ending saga.

In Hollywood, you grow up quick.

The fact that people are actually shaving their eyebrows is very flattering. But it's crazy that people are singing songs I wrote in my bedroom.

If I could go back, I think I would be a rock star instead of an actor, man.

I didn't have that thing that Michael Bolton did; my star power - my charisma - was not a match to my writing ability.

Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far.

I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.

Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'

I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't have success and be faceless.

You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.

I'm in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing.

You think a lot of people get to be big stars and get a little crazy, but most of the ones I've ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I've enjoyed that.

I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star.

I don't rely on my figure to sell records.

I know I'm a pop star. But sometime I'd like to be a rock star.

We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.

There's a lot that goes into being Tim McGraw or Kenny Chesney. They have great songs, their show is great, they're very fit. When you look at somebody who takes care of themselves, takes care of their business, that's what every CEO would do.