Joan Fontaine Quotes

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.

I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

When I first started to blow up, everybody thought I was rich. Everybody started asking for stuff. My friends started becoming fans. Even my teachers began to act like fans.

I actually find it really hard to deal with people looking up to me or being interested in wanting a picture.

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

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.

It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word.

I'm in the public eye. I know I'm not going to be treated like a normal person walking down the street.

But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.

Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.

I am not comfortable at all with this tag of being dubbed 'the richest Indian' and all the attention that follows for the reason.

A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.

Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.

I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.

It's weird to have people just calling me Prince Charming in the street. It's a lot of pressure to walk around sometimes.

With the mega-fame came the mega-downfall - you know, with the press and everything - and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.

My failures had a lot to do with my fame. I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.

I never thought my private life would be newsworthy.

I look at Justin Bieber and my heart breaks for him, because I know what he's going to go through. He knows it. Everybody knows it.

I know some players like being the centre of attention and I admit that when I first became a player I liked fame, too. But that feeling lasted only for three months. Then I realised what it was really like to be the centre of attention all the time. It isn't all good.

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.

You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.

It's not weird being recognised, but it's weird having to stop what you're doing to take pictures or sign something. But the fans are the reason you have your success, so it comes with the territory.