Moon Unit Zappa Quotes

You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows you next Monday.

There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold.

People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.

I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

It took being famous to make me cool, which, by the way, I never forgot.

I can never really enjoy being famous.

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.

My daughter couldn't care less about me being famous. She finds it revolting and, like a lot of teenagers, is virtually allergic to me. That started at 12 and hasn't gone anywhere yet.

In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

I never thought about being famous.

I always loved working as an actress, but I didn't understand why I couldn't just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working.

To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.

You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.

There's nothing to be said for being famous. It's a pain. You can't be rude to people - it's inexcusable not to be nice. Anyway, it's not in my nature. I was trained to be nice.

If you chase fame, you make bad choices. Being famous isn't interesting.

When you become famous super young, you learn how to behave by the rules because you're the one that has to take the stress. But that also creates a barrier that I really didn't want.

When people stare at you, and you read about yourself in papers - at 13, it just got very confusing. I thought that if this is what it's like to be famous, I don't like it one bit.

I think one of my big struggles with being famous in my early 20s was that there was a constant running commentary telling me who I was.

When I was 14, I was on the cover of 'Bop' and 'Tiger Beat.' Every two months, I would see a new kid's face, and I remember saying, 'This is not something that lasts very long.'

When you're poor, you are invisible. Every poor person will tell you nobody sees you. So being famous was me just wanting to be seen.

If you want to be popular and famous, you can do it; it's dead easy if you have that ego desire. But most of my ego desires as far as being famous and successful were fulfilled a long time ago.

I've never changed the way I live. I still walk the streets; I don't give a damn. And everyone's very nice to me. But this new idea of being famous for no reason at all? I can't actually get my head round it.