Quotes / White-Dwarf Starlet

And then there was the time that she performed
when nobody called for more
And soon everytime she stepped into the light
They really let her know the score
But she dreamed of the times when she sang her songs
And everybody cried for more
When all she had to do was step into the light
For everyone to start to roar
And all the people cried: "You're the one we've waited for!"

— Genesis, "Duchess"

"Can I have your autograph?"
He said to the fat blonde actress

— The Velvet Underground, "New Age"

Heavy rings on fingers wave
Another star denies the grave
See the nowhere crowd cry the nowhere tears of honor
Like twisted vines that grow
Hide and swallow mansions whole
And dim the light of an already faded prima donna

— Metallica, "The Memory Remains"

Speedman is a dying star - a white dwarf headed for a black hole. That's physics. It's inevitable.

— Les Grossman, Tropic Thunder

We had a lousy timeslot.

— Raquel, The L.A. Complex

Joe Gillis: You're Norma Desmond. You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big.
Norma Desmond: I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

— Sunset Boulevard

Now, Barbara, honey, this is 1959, 25 years from A Night in Paris and 26 years since you made Farewell Without Tears. That room across the hall is dark, it's damp, it's full of cobwebs. Come on, snap out of it!

— The Twilight Zone (1959), "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine"

Lorne: Well, he cut 6 of my clients loose, didn't even tell me. I spent all day talking them off ledges and out of pill bottles.
Wesley: I sense that suicidal celebrities are beneath Angel's concern.
Lorne: These are very pretty people I'm talking about here, Wes. Four of them getting in shape for Young Guns III.

— Angel, "Power Play"

Florence Henderson (Mrs. Brady from The Brady Bunch) hosted. She hadn't done anything relevant since the 1970's and was there to plug her autobiography where she wrote that an affair with the former mayor of New York left her with crabs.

— Taimapedia on Raw 7.12.10

I have a theory: If you took Lindsay Lohan and put her in the machine from David Cronenberg’s The Fly for 25 years with 12 Denny’s Lumberjack Slams, a carton of Marlboro Reds, a handful of quaaludes, and a laserdisc copy of Battlefield Earth, you’d get Kirstie Alley. Think about it.

— Michael K., "A Scientologist Scorned"

We could include the emoticon bukkake that is Tila Tequila's Twitter feed every single year. Bret Easton Ellis could write 900 pages about it. No one else combines the qualities of being talentless and a has-been quite like this woman. No one else is so clearly living in a paranoid fantasy dreamscape where tweets like this mean something: "Did u miss me too?? Hehe #TilaArmyWorldWide #TilaArmySoldiers #TilaArmy4Life!"

— Drew Magary, "The 25 Least Influential People of 2011"

You always do this! You always go on about the old days, how you terrorized the entire city, and how you're a much better criminal than all the other lunatics in this place! Well, I've got news for you, Karl: no one cares! No one cares about you! No one even remembers you! The Joker, The Riddler, Two-Face... everyone knows of them, but Dr. Death? More like Doctor Who! Get over yourself, Karl! You're a loser, a has-been! Sure, you terrorized the entire city... eight years ago! I doubt even Batman remembers you now!

—Dr. Jeremiah Arkham to Dr. Death, Arkham Patient Sessions

Did you say... cool? Cool... haven't heard that word in years. Did you know? We used to be cool. We used to be... the coolest...

— Fleegle, Jellystone!

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