Natalie Cole Quotes

I grew up in the limelight and being the child of someone famous. So my relationship with fame is not bedazzled.

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad.

I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.

It is not always a treat to grow up as the heir to a world-famous leader.

My daughter couldn't care less about me being famous. She finds it revolting and, like a lot of teenagers, is virtually allergic to me. That started at 12 and hasn't gone anywhere yet.

The highest levels of fame in the entertainment business are geared toward keeping the artist disconnected, disinterested and continuing to make product and not developing any sort of 'normal life.'

Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with Paris Hilton when I was three. That's what L.A. is, though - it's an industry town. You go to school with kids and you think, 'Well that's normal, they make movies.'

If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.

There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

I was working on 'Harry Potter' while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated.

I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.

At school I'd want to be so small that nobody could see me, and so my work depicts and reflects me - what it felt like to grow up in a world of pain.

Fame is very isolating. It changes your reality.

Even at a young age, when you start to do well, it's tough because it's lonely on top, and I wasn't the most popular.

Growing up in New Orleans as Archie Manning's son, I felt like a target, and I've always known that whatever I'd do, people would hear about it. So I've had my guard up, and maybe that's molded my personality.

There's this unspoken assumption when you're the child of a doctor that nothing is ever wrong with you - or at least nothing horrendous enough to warrant your father leaving work.

Sometimes I felt glad not to be too close to people. I might have been happier, I suppose. On the other hand, I never had much luck with people over the years.

I didn't grow up with a lot of babies in my life because I only grew up with my parents - I didn't have any brothers or sisters - and I didn't have my family close by.

If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person, they would never want to be famous.

When you grow up with parents that are known worldwide and having so much attention from media and all of the tabloid magazines, it's really tough.

Sometimes I'm having conversations with my friends, and I feel like they can't relate to me anymore. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, let me tell you about my experience on 'Fallon'!' And they'll be like, 'Oh, my God, let me tell you about my trip to the mall!' It sometimes feels lonely.

Why do I love kids so much? Because I was never a kid myself. I was too poor to really have a childhood.

There comes a real loneliness in celebrity where you're constantly told you're part of an out group in your own society.