If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
There's an incredible amount of loneliness that comes with child stardom because you're isolated from your society.
It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.
You should learn to be happy with what you have. Besides, the fact that I'm not a huge star has allowed me to pick and choose the roles I want to do, not the ones some person sitting in a studio office thinks I should do.
Both my parents were huge stars. I would never have attempted to become as big of stars as they were because they lived in a different era.
I've never had the luxury - or the nightmare - of having something just blow up and be this huge success and then have everything thrown at you. Being 'the best friend' lessens the responsibility, 'cause I can still go do another movie after something that doesn't do well.
Most artists lose their voice, their hair, and their bands. That's not going to happen to me.
For an actor, who has done so many commercial movies, who has a large chunk of his fan following addressing him as 'guru,' it's not easy to opt for roles that strip one of the stardom.
Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.
Every band I've been in, it's just become my total life. I feel like a child star - I've missed out on so much. I never got to play Grand Theft Auto and get stoned every day. I figure at 45 I should probably start doing that.
Super-stardom doesn't scare or excite me. It's just another ingredient added to my world.
As much as my parents are part of Hollywood, I have no recollection of them giving me advice about it.
I don't want this big stardom thing. I just want a good script.
Fame has a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden
When we shot "Stargate," he [ Jaye Davidson] came up to me at one point and said, "I don't like shooting movies," and I said, "Why?" "Too many people stare at me." I said, "Then you're totally in the wrong business."
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.
I have actor friends, but they're not famous. I feel like if you're an actor or - famous, you have to overly prove that you're a normal, cool person.
I do love being an actress. The other stuff, the 'fame', well - you know what? - you don't actually have to buy into it if you don't want to.
I never want to have that on my shoulders - I never want to be number one on the call sheet. That's a life that I don't want. I mean, I'm not ducking the responsibility.
I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.
My music comes before my stardom, so the pressure of handling fame does not matter.
Those who the gods would make rich and famous on TV, they first drive mad.
I don't want to be 45 years old and have been a hot actor when I was 33 and have people going, 'Whatever happened to Fishburne?'
I've never had issues with stardom.
