Celebrity Stress Quotes

Fame is very heavy. When there are large crowds, I'm unable to handle it.

What did winning a Grammy do for me? It made me want to get rid of my Grammy, pack it away, and never see it again. It made me not want to speak to anyone who wanted to speak about my Grammy.

With the mega-fame came the mega-downfall - you know, with the press and everything - and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.

I spent my whole life avoiding the public eye. At these food shows, I'm open quarry again.

I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much [marijuana].

The Da Vinci Code' was a great experience and I was lucky to be chosen, but I don't like the pressure that goes with all these big things. I don't want to be any more famous at all.

Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.

Stardom is just an uneasy seat on top of a tricky toboggan. Being a star is merely perching at the head of the downgrade. A competent featured player can last a lifetime. A star, a year or two. There's all that agony of finding suitable stories, keeping in character, maintaining illusion.

I'm totally grateful for the fans my family has and I have; they gave me a lot of support when I was in treatment. But it was just odd, you know? It's stressful. Just the whole fact of being someone in the public eye.

Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst.

There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.

I don't think I'll ever get used to the pressures of fame. I have two-pointsomething million followers on Twitter, and if I say something, they all listen. It's crazy! I shouldn't be allowed that responsibility.

I've had so much stress in the last year so it's really a struggle. I never hide, when I walk down the street, someone's going to take my picture, that's what I look like.

It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.

I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.

I've never liked the recognition, the questions, the publicity. I have often felt like running away and hiding.

I stress out so much about the red carpet and interviews and pictures, and, you know, not getting my skirt tucked in my knickers.

I got sick of being famous. It is not a desirable 'job.'

If you see yourself in the paper every day and people keep talking about you, you will have a little breakdown in yourself, too.

So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.

Fame put a lot of pressure on me in the Eighties and early Nineties - and I'm glad that I had the kind of makeup where I could come through it alive, keep myself in hand.

I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.

I don't want to be a celebrity because that sucks. It's just madness.

I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.