Kate Bosworth Quotes

I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.

If you see yourself in the paper every day and people keep talking about you, you will have a little breakdown in yourself, too.

I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.

It's a really scary thing, having your dreams come true and seeing everything you ever wanted happening, getting the attention for it and then not knowing how to handle it properly.

Sometimes, I wonder where my place in this town called 'Hollywood' is - and that can give you a really dull headache.

It's a mixed feeling when everything you've ever wanted in making films is coming true, and yet you feel scared because it's happening all at once. Suddenly you're in rooms with people you've looked up to for years, the Judi Denches. You wonder if you're good, if you have what it takes.

I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that.

My performance level has risen - and my anxiety-level has sky-rocketed.

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

I don't know if I want to be a big star though.

I want to keep pushing myself so I never feel settled. I don't really know if it's going to end up working. I'm stressed out most of the time.

Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.

As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.

I've had so much stress in the last year so it's really a struggle. I never hide, when I walk down the street, someone's going to take my picture, that's what I look like.

For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.

I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear.

I was suddenly really famous, and I didn't know how to cope. I didn't know myself well enough as a person, number one, and as an actor, number two. I wanted to escape.

Being a celebrity can be very intoxicating and very addicting. And I've always been afraid of that, because I've grown up post-almost every child star out there who has gone wayward.

I think fame is such a scary thing, and it's something I can never understand. It's terrifying, but it's the only way I get to do what I love every day, you know?

I arrived in London and I was terrified. I never wanted to be a celebrity - one minute I was in school and the next I was in London talking to people at a record company. If anything, I didn't feel in any way worthy.

It really scares me, the idea of keeping on growing and becoming more well-known. I don't like how my life has changed in some ways.

When the band were really big and we had massive hits, I was always stressed-out and insecure. I thought I wanted the band to be really popular, but when that happened, there was so much pressure to keep it going.

Fame is very heavy. When there are large crowds, I'm unable to handle it.

I feel like I'm in a weird state, and I wake up in Hollywood, and I've got a couple of studio movies underneath my belt, and I take these meetings with people. Sometimes it's this great, weird sense of oddness that comes at you, because I've never really stopped thinking the way that I started thinking.

No matter how many people are screaming your name or how many Number One hits you have, you can still wake up and feel like a loser.