I've always thought the expression 'passion project' was kind of a cliche until I started working on 'Big Shot' for 'ESPN.'
I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.
Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first.
Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me.
It's not my ambition to be a big star.
I didn't want to be a big star. I wanted to be a really good actor.
I'm a big 'Star Wars' fan and grew up watching the movies. I read all the books and have read 'Star Wars' fiction that went between the newest trilogy and the original trilogy and it was part of my childhood.
I can't be the big star in the family. We have a family, and we are all equal.
I can't compete with really big stars. I'm not a big star; I'm just an actor who came from Delhi to pursue her passion.
I always wanted to be a big star.
The first real gig I went to was Randy Crawford in 1980. Seeing a big star like that was just fantastic.
I don't think I am a very big star on TV.
The big story of 2013, a very distressing year, is that Americans continue not to be able to find the full-time jobs they need, and that's something which the president has to recognize as the first priority of his administration.
It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares?
Hillary Clinton had scheduled an interview while I was at the height of the Weinstein reporting, and her folks got in touch and said, 'We hear you're working on a big story,' sounded very concerned, and tried to cancel the interview.
The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.
Writers are not obliged to deal with current events, but it happens that the big story of our times - the al-Qaida attacks on New York and the Pentagon, and the subsequent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - is being told in some of the greatest books of our time.
Not every conservative Christian is a dominionist, but to say a movement doesn't exist, as some pundits and journalists have, without even being able to say what it is in an op-ed is just irresponsible... The big story is that the religious right isn't dead.
My advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots. There's the 'big story', the over-arching grand plot of the entire series, and there is the complete-in-itself, one-book plot.
