“Come on, Nelson. Why can't I be a star? What does a star do? Nothing. Look at the camera, flash! Smile at the camera, flash! Look at everybody, big eyes! Say nothing. Stars don't do, stars just be.”
Leleti Khumalo - Sarafina

“Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!”

Warner Baxter - Julian Marsh

“- George Hayden: My Charlie, you weren't even thirty. You were the most famous man in the world, with your own studio, named after you. Couldn't you just enjoy it?
- Charlie Chaplin: I can now, but couldn't then. It meant too much.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - George Hayden
Robert Downey Jr. - Charles Spencer Chaplin

“If you can't be great, then there's no sense in ever playing music again.”
Michael Paré - Eddie Wilson

“- Eddie Wilson: I want something great! I want something that nobody's ever done before!
- Sal Amato: Why? We ain't great. We're just some guys from Jersey.”
Michael Paré - Eddie Wilson
Matthew Laurance - Sal Amato