S.E. Cupp Quotes

I'm about making music and spending time with my family. I've been in the spotlight so long that I'm looking for something different.

A star needs all the rest she can get.

I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.

There is a time and place for publicity, but to stay a sane person, you must have a personal life.

Retiring had nothing to do with love of the game. Nothing. It had to do with how I felt about myself. I needed the break.

All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.

Just the life of doing what I do, being in the public eye, it's a stressful environment... You feel strange, self-aware, very foolish. Your third eye clicks on, just to try to maintain a healthy sense of perspective, and you think, 'What am I doing here? I'm just making a movie, and people want all these things from me.'

It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging.

The business of Hollywood, if you don't have other things going on, it will eat you up and spit you out... If you take what those people and that social structure think of you - if you let it govern your life - you might as well just kill yourself.

I see L.A. as a workplace rather than somewhere to live. If I don't get out, I go crazy. If you have a little success, people treat you differently, so it's good to keep a healthy perspective. It's acting, not rocket science.

Most of my life I've had long periods of feeling down and lost. That's why every five years or so I've smashed my life to pieces and started again.

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.

We were starting to lose track with Earth because fame and success brings you many things that you're not really prepared for or know how to deal with as a human being.

My issue isn't about physical aging; my issue is about wanting to remain vigorous and youthful in my spirit.

I think recharging is important, absolutely. Every now and then, you need maybe a couple of weeks to just chill out and let your emotions balance themselves out a little bit.

I think that in Hollywood, it's hard because so many people do turn out crazy. I don't need to go out every night to get attention. I'm happy with the amount that I have.

Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.

You have to disengage at some point in order to be fresh.

I think it does Discworld good if I don't write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.

Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.

The Oscar made me a star, and I'm grateful. But I feel had I not won the Oscar I wouldn't have gotten into the messes I did in my personal life.

I am stable when my private life is a success.

My personal life, my normal life, is so important to me. To be able to go back to my personal life and leave characters behind is important; I don't keep them with me.

If you're gonna fall apart, do it in your own bedroom.

Thank God I've never had the sort of intense fame that means you can't walk up the road. That sort of blazing stardom must be difficult to cope with and maintain; my career has just bubbled along happily.