Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.

That's what fame is: solitude.

All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.

I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world.

I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of.

You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

I get recognized now and again, but the paparazzi aren't following me around. I get to go to the shop and buy bread and milk, and no one worries me.

It must be odd, being recognisable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. It happened for a while with 'Spooks.' No one notices me now.

I find it not hard to make friends, but it's definitely different when I go somewhere like summer camp and everyone already knows that I'm in 'Hunger Games'... My life is still pretty normal, and I still have some really great friends.

The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.

I'm used to living in a disassociated universe.

… splendid isolation

Fame is very isolating. It changes your reality.

I feel like I'm in my own world: in the world but not a part of it.

Living in Finland as a singer of Nightwish, I'm used to having people around me all the time that know who I am. In the Netherlands, people never really knew or cared or whatever.

When I first started playing, the only time you knew you would get photographed was if the paparazzi were outside a smart restaurant in town.

It is part of my life, being in front of the camera all the time. It's not something that's new to me.

But I'm more of a recluse when it comes down to being a writer and being a creative person rather than being a celebrity.

Fame, on its best day, is kind of like a friendly wave from a stranger by the side of the road. And when it's not so good, it's like a long walk home, all alone, with nobody in when you get there.

I don't think I'm prepared for life in the spotlight. I don't even think I'm really prepared now, but I still don't really feel like I'm in the spotlight a lot. I'm not a household name. I'm not followed around by paparazzi. I still have a very normal life. I'd love as many people to know and like my music as possible, but there's something quite lovely about being able to still go and watch your boys play football.

Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye.

I should like to be famous and unknown.

Sometimes you need to stay in touch but be out of reach.

The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.

Super-stardom doesn't scare or excite me. It's just another ingredient added to my world.