Minnie Pearl Quotes

Fame doesn't end loneliness.

I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.

He really loved baseball and loved being on the field. But Mantle was lonely in a lot of ways. He had many great friends, and by all accounts was a good, generous and loyal friend. But there were a lot of people who wanted only a piece of him.

Every place I go, Im recognied, and its pretty hard to just sit by yourself.

When you are a successful footballer, you get put on a pedestal. You are the person your friends and family look up to, and they do not know how to approach you when things are going wrong, even when you just need someone to reach out to you and ask you if you are all right.

If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

To be famous and broke is hard.

I have nobody. I have surrounded myself with people who are fake just because I need to talk to somebody.

I never dated much in high school or college.

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

I didn't get as much attention as I wanted from girls as a teenager. I thought that if I became a rock star, I would finally get all that I wanted - but it didn't happen.

I'd traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.

Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.

People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.

I've never really spent too much or put too much gravity or placed too much importance on being a pop star. It's like, OK, great, does that mean I don't have to do anything anymore except walk around and be a pop star?

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.

Sometimes I just wish nobody knew who I was.

There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

I was working on 'Harry Potter' while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated.

I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'

I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

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

Fame is very isolating. It changes your reality.