Mercedes McCambridge Quotes

I'm not a shiny pop star.

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

I think it's a gift to become a star, to become a celebrity.

You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

I always wanted to be a star.

I never wished that I was a superstar. Hell, I never even wished that I was an actress.

You are supposed to have a dream of walking the red carpet. But I'm really not like that. Because fame is... I don't think it is something interesting or precious.

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

I've always wanted to be a star.

I wanted to be the most famous. And it wasn't until I hung out with Justin Bieber that the whole thing got demystified. The mystique of it was gone.

The life of fame was never meant for me.

There is no such thing as a reluctant star.

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.

In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.

I don't know if I want to be a big star though.

But I don't think I was ever destined to be a big star.

I wasn't born a superstar.

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.

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

I've never wanted to be a star, never.

I've always had a lot of ambivalence about fame and celebrity.

I think everybody wants to be a rock star.

People have such false perceptions of how stardom really works.

I definitely don't want to achieve some kind of rock star status.