Carmen Miranda Quotes

To this day, I don't know what shapes a Hollywood career.

Maybe one day I'll have a big hit, and the world will make a big sex symbol out of me like they always do when there's a new chick.

In Hollywood, you grow up quick.

You'd see those movie stars on the screen, and say, 'I want to be that guy.'

Hollywood always likes to create a star.

Hollywood has given me a great, warm hug.

Hollywood has treated me well.

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.

People have such false perceptions of how stardom really works.

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

It's inconceivable to some people that that wouldn't be the sexiest thing to do in the whole world: to be a movie star, and make money, and be pampered, and whatever.

I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star.

As it gets closer and more probable, being a star is really losing its meaning.

I like celebrities. I love people who are famous. Always have.

Everyone in the film industry does a lot of drama to get the limelight.

I love superstars.

Whether it is fame, love or respect, the Telly world has given me everything that I craved for.

I don't want to get any bigger - what does a 'big star' mean? I just want to be loved.

There is no such thing as a reluctant star.

What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.

As a young girl, I used to dream of giving an interview. You dream of stardom as a kid. People think they don't want to be stars. Everyone wants to be a star! That's the truth. Even grownups; they pretend they don't want to be one and don't care. But everyone wants to.

I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life.

If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.

I don't think anyone can tell you what it is that makes you a star.