Judith Durham Quotes

I'm not a shiny pop star.

I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star.

Hollywood always likes to create a star.

I don't consider myself a star.

Celebrity never really served me that well; it serves other people well.

I can't come to terms with stardom or see myself as a star.

I feel like I'm a pop star without being a diva.

Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is.

There are those, I think, who are attracted to the glitz of celebrity life. I am not one of them.

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

I'm rather uncomfortable with celebrity, to be honest.

That's what fame does to you. You acquire another self.

That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense.

I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.

For me, becoming a celebrity was like being in the eye of a hurricane. Suddenly, I was an international cover girl. Everybody was lapping up my Hemingwayness. They wanted to rub elbows with me or brush up against me.

When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

People have such false perceptions of how stardom really works.

I'm famous. That's my job.

I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.

I don't really care that much about being a matinee idol.

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

I don't really think of myself or picture myself as a Hollywood person.

I'm not an icon. Not even in America.

The real stars are not good actors or actresses. They're personalities.