Fred Allen Quotes

You have to be a star to be in this business.

If you just want to be a star, go away.

I think I'll be flavor of the month when I'm in my fifties.

I knew what show business was, which was why I didn't want in on that action. I saw what happens! You get it, and then you lose it.

Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.

I was fanatically ambitious. All I ever wanted was to be a star. I didn't want to be a singer. I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a star.

I think people of lesser talent will become stars.

I'm more than an actor. I'm an icon, an industry.

I didn't come to New York to be a star, I brought my star with me.

There's an art to being a good actor, there's an art to being a celebrity, and there's an art to longevity.

I'm an actress, and that's why I'm still here. Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding themselves.

There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.

I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.

We are in the the entertainment business, and we all know if you are top of the tree, you get big money.

With a modest amount of looks and talent, and more than a modicum of serendipity, I've managed to stretch my 15 minutes of fame into 50 years of good fortune.

Jay-Z just got that longevity. He can put out anything at any time and everybody will love it. He'll never get old.

It's easier to get on show business, the hard part is to maintain. Nobody stays famous forever.

Being an actor is like winning the lottery. It's not really about your talent, it's right time, right place, right face.

Whether it happens over 10 years, like with a lot of people, or with one hit movie that thrusts you into that world, when you become successful as an actor, you become well known. In the end game, that's just part of the business.

You think a lot of people get to be big stars and get a little crazy, but most of the ones I've ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I've enjoyed that.

I think it's a gift to become a star, to become a celebrity.

My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.

'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'

I don't want to sound too bleeding heart, because I know how lucky I've been, but I never knew how hard it was to be the lead in a television show.

I loved everything about show business, meeting the stars, the whole ambience. I was living every young kid's dream. I was told a pop singer's life was three years, but I was still making money seven years later.