Quotes about Stardom

You can't sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way.

If you notice, no child star made it big when s/he grew up because the child's image was still fresh in people's memory. They could not digest the fact that the child star had grown into a man.

I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.

I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.

Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.

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.

Being a celebrity at a very high level is a good thing.