"I hate the word "superstar". I have never been able to think in those terms. They are overstatements. You don't hear them speak of William Shakespeare as a superpoet. You don't hear them call Michelangelo a superpainter. They only apply the word to this mundane market."

(James Francis Cagney, superstar di Hollywood; New York, 17 luglio 1899 – New York, 30 marzo 1986)