Jane Leavy Quotes

I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.

Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it.

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 Hollywood lifestyle was just overwhelming. A party here, an interview there, magazine and modeling shoots daily, your face everywhere and girls throwing themselves at you. As great as it felt at the time, I still felt something missing, and that I needed to change.

I had no desire to be a star and a star's responsibility.

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

It's difficult, because when you're a popular singer who makes money, you're basically a race horse. And that's how you're treated by the people around you.

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.

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'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.

You know what may be the oddest thing about being a star? Stars have an effect on people. It's a responsibility, and it's frightening.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

If I start to become a star, I'll lose contact with the normal guys I play best.

I think Elvis would be alive today, probably, if he had been allowed to mix and mingle with his fans. I think it was a great cross for him to bear that he couldn't get out and be with his fans.

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.

You become so encapsulated in this world of being a star. People listen to what you say, you have this voice, it becomes unreal and you become far removed from the people you came from.

You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.

It's weird to have people just calling me Prince Charming in the street. It's a lot of pressure to walk around sometimes.

I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me.

I just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me.

A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother?

When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.

I feel like fame is wasted on me.

Fame is a curse... it was the worst phase of my life, which I thank God I'll never have to go through again.

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.