Janis Joplin Quotes

I was really wanting to be a rock star. I was saying, "I am going to have a fancy car, I got to have fancy clothes, and I have got to play the whole role." Obviously, I meant business.

Showbiz is great if you're successful.

In my life, I've been a movie star, a rock star, and a sports star, all wrapped up into one-and worked harder at it than anybody else.

Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.

Sometimes, in the dressing room, I think I am in Hollywood.

When I see the attention movie stars get, it doesn't make me want to be in that position at all.

There is no such thing as a reluctant star.

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.

My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.

The star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.

You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.

To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don't buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing.

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

Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.

I love being famous - it's phenomenal.

I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure.

I think a lot of people secretly wish they were a rock star, and I'm no exception.

I have to say, my celebrity is not a big factor in my life. Once in a while someone takes my picture. But I'm not exactly one of the four girls everyone's chasing at the moment.

I really don't have that much interest in stardom.

Winning is everything in Hollywood.

Hollywood wouldn't suit me. In L.A. it's all about work - studio people have their five minutes with you and they go, 'Oh mah Gahd, I love your movie.' You just feel very self-conscious there.

Hollywood, it has treated me so nicely, I am ready to faint! As soon as I see Hollywood, I love it.

I always teach celebrities, all my life.

As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.

There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me.