Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

I don't want to be Marilyn Monroe. In many ways, that's a good comparison. Because Marilyn Monroe was a sexpot, all that stuff that I have no interest in. For me, it's much easier to just try to make people laugh than to try to be the hottest thing in the world.

I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe.

Hollywood is my domestic idyll.

Once, I was a bigger star than Greta Garbo.

I myself am a great James Dean fan. He had this aura and enigma about him.

Ever since Marilyn Monroe was transformed from one of the prettiest girls you could ever hope to see into an icon, everyone has been trying to repeat that icon. And now the entire industry is filled with, and by and large run by, wannabes.

Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.

I'd like to be Marilyn Monroe for a day.

Marilyn Monroe to me is the epitome of glamour, and always has been since I was a kid.

Everybody tells me, 'You're famous.' And I answer, 'I'm not Angelina Jolie!'

It's very difficult to get recognized in Bollywood. There are so many talented singers and so much competition.

What I learnt was a real star never comes on set wearing stardom.

Nobody tells you how to be famous.

With regards to the fame, I wanted it, I worked for it, and when you get it, it's something you want to turn on and off, but that's part of the game.

Getting into the glamour industry was not an option for me. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would get to this point. My family is not at all related to this industry.

The life of fame was never meant for me.

It was weird. I joined this band because my life was all about singing. Then Girls Aloud became successful, and suddenly it wasn't just about being able to sing any more. It turned into a beauty contest.

I wouldn't do a lot of the things most actresses do, and that includes my sister.

The music became secondary to being rock stars.

Glamour is a very small aspect of being an actress.

We not from Hollywood, so I'm not playing Hollywood's game.

I went from being a jobbing actress who was just earning a living to being the second most photographed woman in Britain, next to Princess Diana - but it was exciting, too, and I wouldn't have swapped it for a second.

I don't envy young actors.

I don't really miss the Hollywood lifestyle.

I looked at 'Us Weekly' and said, 'I want to be famous.'