We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.
My dad's paternal grandparents were musically inclined. And I remember as a little kid going to visit them in their senior building, and they were, like, the stars of the building, especially hosting and performing in their senior talent show.
We don't swim for the attention. We don't swim to be rock stars. There is something beautiful about being in an anonymous sport and being fairly anonymous. It enables you do something you love without any of the other effects.
You know what shows today are missing? Stars.
I have spent so much time and so much energy making other people's children stars.
I've been invited to do 'Dancing With the Stars' three times, but Lifetime said no.
I create stars.
By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very middle-class Indian upbringing. We were never made to realise who we were or that my father and mother were huge stars - it was a very normal house, and I'd like my daughter to have the same thing.
