Tina Turner Quotes

Now I realize that from '72 through to about '76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn't have been more rock star.

I don't really care that much about being a matinee idol.

In Hollywood, you grow up quick.

I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life.

We celebrities are desperate pigs.

I'm not trying to be a celebrity, Justin Timberlake kinda guy.

There are those, I think, who are attracted to the glitz of celebrity life. I am not one of them.

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

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.

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 think there is a difference between being a celebrity and being an actor.

As young, hot actors living in Hollywood, you get even more attractive.

Hollywood's a very weird place. I think there's less of everything except for attitude.

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

I don't consider myself a star.

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

I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.

The life of an actor can be very enviable.

People have such false perceptions of how stardom really works.

The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.

I don't mind doing the whole red carpet thing when I have to when it comes to publicizing a movie. But besides that, I don't like those kinds of things at all. Celebrity status is not really something that appeals to me.

I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.

I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.

Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.

The term 'celebrity' makes my skin crawl.