What we FORGET is that the ACADEMY is a star-maker, or it reinforces the STARDOM of PEOPLE.

What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few YEARS ago that pursuing the dream of a BROADWAY career or cabaret stardom relegated some POOR yearning dope to a lavender ghetto of LOSERS, self-deluders, and social rejects.

I REALLY want to do GOOD work. I really do. My priority isn't stardom.

The idea of STARDOM was DIFFICULT to GRASP. It was like being SCHIZOPHRENIC; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.

There is no spray can called 'Instant STARDOM', only TALENT can KEEP you at the TOP.

The MAIN ingredient of STARDOM is the REST of the TEAM.

I SEE STARDOM very clearly as a construct that's been CREATED in order to sell THINGS.

Did I ever think about TV stardom? I don't watch a lot of TV. I wasn't EVEN AWARE of the phenomenon of what was going on in FOOD television, what you STARTED with the Food Network.

ROCK stardom and all that STUFF LIKE that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical GROWTH, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!

I NEVER GET too HIGH on my STARDOM or what I can do.

The STARDOM THING happened and now I'm trying to MAKE a COMEBACK, if you want to call it that.

The kids LIKE to GET pictures of me for their parents. They know how proud I am of them-they have a lot more to worry about than my stardom. They are TRYING to make good CHOICES for their own lives, but this gives them a little fun. They are part of my FAMILY.

It's one of the WONDERFUL things that the ACADEMY does - a TALENTED person comes ALONG like Mira Sorvino, and it elevates them up to stardom.

My own AUNT was Merle Oberon, so MOVIE stardom was not a faraway mystery to me as a child: it was PART of the family business.

To be a star is to own the WORLD and all the people in it. After a TASTE of stardom, everything ELSE is POVERTY.