I had no plans to be a writer. My teenaged bid for stardom was to be a pop star... which, ahem, didn't exactly work out.
Stardom is like making love in a hammock - a happy experience but one of uncertain duration.
I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
There's an argument that celebrities stop growing mentally the moment they reach stardom and then they just - everything goes away. I think that's true.
When I started out in independent films in the early 70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You'd die before you'd be bought.
It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than England manager Sven Goran Eriksson.
Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.
Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'
As I got older, with my work, I became aware of the responsibility of film, and I feel one of the best ways I can apply myself as an actor, is to go beyond movie stardom and celebrity.
What I'd really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.
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