Quotes About Stardom

It's good to be well known. Everywhere I go it's the same thing - autographs, pictures.

The best part about reality shows is that they make you a well known name.

I only became a celebrity because I had a kid. Before I was pregnant nobody cared. I joke to my agent that having a baby made my career.

Nothing could prepare you for being instantly famous.

I was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened.

I don't think you can decide how famous or not you become.

Media is a powerful thing, and you see it with so many actors, where one role that brings them a lot of attention is sort of how they get defined.

I want people to take me seriously as an actor. I want to be a star; I won't deny that.

They treat you as if you are a different kind of human or life form when you are a celebrity - as if we don't breathe the same air, or we don't bleed the same - and I hate that. I really hate that.

In essence, big stars come with a set image, and breaking it becomes a task for certain stories.

I don't ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after 'East Is East' and 'Bend It.'

Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.

I mean I was famous for nothing.

There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.

It's so sad, you get less starstruck when you start realizing that it's not a big deal.

Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.

Gable suited MGM because Gable was larger than life. Cagney suited Warner Brothers because Cagney was life.

Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself, I always take a trip to the U.S. The immigration guys kick the star out of my stardom.

The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.

It's not that I don't like starring as the hero, it's more of a mental block that prevents me from doing so.

No support of one star or one director or one producer can make any individual actor a star. You have to connect with the audience; the audience have to like you. That is something that cannot be manipulated or fought for or tried for. Either they like you, or they don't.