Susan Hayward Quotes

If you want to be a star, don't bother doing it because it ends up being very empty.

What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

The more celebrities I meet, the more disappointed I get in celebrity culture.

Drink promises you everything, but gives nothing.

My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party.

Sometimes it's frustrating if I'm out with the kids and have to deal with the paparazzi. That comes with it though. But it was fun becoming famous. I mean, I even wanted to one of the kids in FAME when I was growing up.

I never really liked Hollywood. I found it unreal - unreal and full of men and women whose lives were confused and full of pain.

What people don't realize is that this is the entertainment business.

Just because I'm a successful singer who's loved and has been loved for years doesn't mean I'm sitting behind electric gates in my own fantasy land.

'In the Making' reveals the truth about 'being in the limelight' as a young celebrity.

That's not always a nice feeling when you've given everything, and it's not enough - it's an empty feeling.

I thought I would be an overnight star when I had a hit record in Brazil with my first album - but things didn't work out quite like that.

But then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I'll admit I created.

All I wanted to do was to become famous, but then I found out that it was nothing special.

Celebrity is a pretty stunning thing. At first I was like 'They love me! Oh, I love them, too.' And suddenly, I was tap-dancing on my pedestal and it was whack! Facedown in the dirt.

Before you're famous it's stuff that seems like it'd be really cool, but once you get it, you realize it's not bad, but it's kind of hollow and meaningless.

I was at my most miserable when I had everything I ever wanted.

He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality

When you read magazines and you see everybody having fun, you think, ‘okay, that’s where I want to be.’ But once you get in it and you achieve the success that you want, it seems like that’s where the player hating starts. You know that’s where everybody’s like, ‘Well it’s not all that

Fame it's like... When you look through a window, say you pass a little pub, or an inn. You look through the window and you see people talking and carrying on. You,can watch outside the window and see them all being very real with each other. But when you walk into the room, it's over. I don't pay any attention to it.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.

It's so sad, you get less starstruck when you start realizing that it's not a big deal.

This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a destructive impulse in her presence?