Quotes About Fame

I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!

I wasn't lucky enough to find a Chris Stein like Debbie Harry did. I was with Todd Rundgren... He was the star, I was the decoration.

Every star, whether it's Harrison Ford or Robert De Niro, is remembered by one film. Persis is a star in the sky - how can a star be forgotten when all you have to do is look up and see her?

It's a really big deal to have a star on the Walk of Fame; it feels like an incredible achievement.

I'm just excited to see myself on billboards. I'm getting ready to be a star.

I wanted to be a rich, famous rock-and-roll star in that order.

My four friends were John Kerr, who became a star, Paul Newman, Jimmy Dean, and Jack Lemmon.

All of my friends in the business ask, 'Why is this woman not a star? Why is she not a household name?'

Back home, no one looks at me as a star. At least I know my mother doesn't.

I have never emulated any star or celebrity completely, and I hope nobody does the same of me.

I would've been a really big silent movie star.

I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.

Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's.

I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star.

When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.

Well, it's embarrassing to be a star.

To become a big movie star like Joan Crawford, you need to wear blinders and pay single-minded attention to your career. Nobody paid attention to me, including me.

Unless you're of a certain age, you may not know my name, but you can Google it - I was a pretty big movie star in the 1950s. Oh, and another thing: I was - am - gay.

I needed to become something besides the star everybody had built me up to be.

I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.

It is kind of weird to walk into a Starbucks and have somebody know your name. But normal-day life really hasn't changed that much. There's just a lot more eyes on you on social media.

If people are taking pictures of me at Starbucks, it's not the end of the world. It's cool, it's fun, it's exciting.

I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.

It is not overwhelming, like you are George Clooney, but at the Starbucks, at the 7-Eleven or walking around Manhattan or the Roosevelt Field Mall, I do get recognized. It's nice.