Toni Tennille Quotes

I want to be one of the greats. I feel like the money and all that is going to come, but I want to be a name that, like, when you say Nas or Jay Z, that's forever.

Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want to be someone that people are going to look back in ten years/fifteen years' time and go, 'I love this guy Olly Murs. He was brilliant back in the day; he was someone I really, really liked.'

I want to be an icon.

I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess.

You're only as big as your last hit.

Our story is in two halves, as the band's career up to Freddie's death was 20 years, and 20 years later, our music is as popular as it was then. It's a sort of everlasting... income.

Having a hit is nice, having some success, but when you move popular culture, that's a high.

Wherever I go, people still shout out: 'Hey, hey, we're The Monkees.' And I never tire of that.

I'm over being a pop star. I don't wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I've accomplished a lot. I feel like I'm highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

They say you can do honest, sincere work for decades, but you're given in general a 10-year period when what you do touches the zeitgeist - when you're relevant. And I'm aware of that, and I don't want my time to go by.

I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star.

Hollywood has treated me well.

All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in.

There's a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody.

I don't want to be a reality retro star.

Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies.

East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door.

When people come up to me and say, 'You made it,' I think, 'But I'm not done yet. Not everyone's heard my music.' I want to be a household name.

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. And I wanted everything that went along with it.

The public makes a hit.

For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil.

All things take time. A lot of my films still run on cable and are in video stores, and there's a whole generation that doesn't know who I am. So, it's a dichotomy. In some people's minds I may never grow up.

You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.

Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.

I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.