Patti Smith Quotes

I think a lot of people secretly wish they were a rock star, and I'm no exception.

I think everybody wants to be a rock star.

I don't wanna be a rock star. I don't believe in rock stars. If you really examine what goes with being a rock star, I've avoided that really well.

I definitely don't want to achieve some kind of rock star status.

I always wanted to be a star.

Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.

I've always wanted to be a star.

I don't want to be a rock star. I had my 15 minutes of fame.

I guess you cannot prepare yourself enough for stardom, even though you strive for it all your life.

There is no such thing as a reluctant star.

As a young girl, I used to dream of giving an interview. You dream of stardom as a kid. People think they don't want to be stars. Everyone wants to be a star! That's the truth. Even grownups; they pretend they don't want to be one and don't care. But everyone wants to.

I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me.

My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?

You'd see those movie stars on the screen, and say, 'I want to be that guy.'

I think it's a gift to become a star, to become a celebrity.

Hollywood has treated me well.

I knew what show business was, which was why I didn't want in on that action. I saw what happens! You get it, and then you lose it.

People have such false perceptions of how stardom really works.

I never wanted to be a star.

Now I realize that from '72 through to about '76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn't have been more rock star.

I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.

Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

I know what that tastes like, to be a rock-and-roll star - to have a limousine, to have girls screaming when they see you, girls trying to cut my hair, get a piece of me. But I don't walk around with a concept of myself as a rock-and-roll star, and certainly not as a musician, because I really can't play anything, except primitively.

Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.