Halle Berry Quotes

People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.

Lindsay Lohan was the 'It' girl from, like, 14. That's a lot of pressure.

I think it would be really brutal to put on a persona and get famous for that persona. Like, 'I'm number one, I'm the best!' because that sounds like a lot of pressure.

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

That's what happens when you play in L.A. Everybody expects you to do well.

When you're doing well and you're successful, part of being successful is that you get interviewed. But it ruins the moment.

I think [the spotlight] is a lonely place to be. Everybodys wanting something from you, pulling at you.

I'm not in a real rush to be a big star.

You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

You're never quite prepared for the inundation of stardom, or whatever you want to call it.

Anybody in the spotlight can get lost in that if they are not careful.

I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act.

Before 'Gremlins,' I was a normal person, then within two weeks of the movie coming out, I couldn't walk into a store without people turning around and staring. It's exciting and also scary because everyone starts telling you how amazing you are.

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

I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars.

I think that, in the beginning, you think, 'I want to be the biggest movie star in the world.' And then, with the more movies you make, you are like, 'I don't know if I want to be that anymore. I think what I am looking for is something different.' I like acting, but a lot of times, stardom comes with a lot of strings attached.

I heard Tony Bennett say that when you're a big deal early on, you have to maintain that level forever, and it's very scary. You have to keep hitting those home runs, turning out hits.

That's probably fair to say that there is a certain amount of pressure to deliver your next role when you do have a fan base as potent as the 'Battlestar Galactica' family. There was certainly a lot of curiosity to all of us on that show - what are you going to do next? Where can we see you next? That was a question we got more often than not.

Stardom is just an uneasy seat on top of a tricky toboggan. Being a star is merely perching at the head of the downgrade. A competent featured player can last a lifetime. A star, a year or two. There's all that agony of finding suitable stories, keeping in character, maintaining illusion.

I'm not a star, and I don't want to be a star. Stars fall. I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.

As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.

I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.

Guys like Todd Bridges never overcame being a child star. You can't have any big failures. I've always felt regular. I played organized ball at the rec league. At 13, they told me I sold 3 million copies. I didn't know what that meant.

'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.