Quotes About Stardom

The idea of being a 'child star' always sounded awful to people my age, and so I was just very aware that these things are kind of fleeting and that a lot of it didn't have to do with me: it had to do with my age; it had to do with whatever came to mind when people thought of a young internet sensation.

I think there is something about L.A., fortunately: once you get one role people think, 'Oh well, someone employed her, so maybe we can.' I mean, that's my idea of it, anyway. 'She can put one foot in front of the other and say a line.'

I think when you get out of the big cities people get really freaked out when they see someone who is on TV, because they're not used to that.

It's not normal to meet somebody and then they become wildly famous or they become wildly rich or all these things.

I was so famous that I couldn't leave the hotel room. I remember looking out of the window at all these fans but just feeling so isolated.

People were following me home in cars, singing outside my window at my flat. I couldn't go to pubs or supermarkets or walk down the street. It was bizarre, but that was my life.

I can walk down the street, and 85 percent of the people on the block are really quite oblivious to me. They either think I'm probably an actor or else I installed their storm windows two years ago, or I work at their bank, or maybe I'm their cousin Marie's gynecologist. Then, to the other 15 percent of those people on the street, I'm a rock star.

Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural stardom and the inevitable waning of physical capacities prevent many architects from attaining the transcendent final phase more easily achieved by artists in other mediums.

In L.A. everyone is an actor. In Texas, everyone's a musician.

Thank God I've never had the sort of intense fame that means you can't walk up the road. That sort of blazing stardom must be difficult to cope with and maintain; my career has just bubbled along happily.

Whether you are a star kid or not, it all depends on the actor and how he/she can get the audience to the theatre.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world.

I awoke one morning to find myself famous.

I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.

Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.

I want people to know that movie stars live a normal, middle-class life.

Some people who make it to where we are, life changes for them, they're treated differently, they're recognized. They're 6-foot-6, 280 pounds and people automatically know what they do for a living.

I don't consider stardom to be anything related with me. I hope that the only way this business will ever change me will be (giving me) a good life.

The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.

I used to be seriously incognito - without wanting to be. The effect of the magazines, television, billboards - they've changed my whole life in terms of having to deal with being a, quote, star.

I don't want to be on the radio. I don't want to be on Mtv.

In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.

When you're famous, you're always famous. It doesn't go away.