Glamorous Lifestyle Quotes

When I lived in Paris in the early '80s, I had the occasion to hang out with Prince Albert of Monaco quite a few times.

When I worked at Dior, Paris Hilton and Kathy Hilton came one time and they were kind of crazy.

I've never sought to be on an A-list. I've done my own thing and my own thing has thankfully now brought me an audience.

People think being Elvira is a lot of fun - and it is - but I was doing a lot more bizarre stuff before then, just being a dancer and a showgirl and traveling around Italy in a band and working for Playboy Club, and later being a model and meeting a million and one people and being kind of a groupie... It's all been really interesting.

If it wasn't so pointless and ridiculous, it would be more humiliating. Also, if there [Hollywood] weren't so many people as bad as myself - equally untalented people - it would be even more humiliating.

Showbiz is great if you're successful.

I like being very busy. I think that's the definition of stardom, really. It's energy. It really is.

I've got no aspirations to become an A-list celebrity.

Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.

I have a bad gambling problem. You're not in show business for 12 years and dress like this without a bad gambling problem.

Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.

I've always chased glamour.

I was really wanting to be a rock star. I was saying, "I am going to have a fancy car, I got to have fancy clothes, and I have got to play the whole role." Obviously, I meant business.

I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.

If you act like a rock star, you will be treated like one

I think everyone has the impression that L.A. is Hollywood and fast lives. That couldn't be further from the truth.

I love being a star more than life itself.

Would you believe I was a famous star? It's the truth.

L.A. is this huge epicenter of the most popular person. Can you imagine, every single high school in the world where someone says, "You're so beautiful, you could be a movie star," all of those one people move to this town called L.A.

It's a good thing to get a break into the glamour industry.

I mean you might have wanted Carrie Bradshaw, but to me she's like toddlers and tiaras gone berserk!

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

It was a different social structure. I'd go to [David] Bailey's for dinner at 10:30. There were always girls there and a house full of . . . I don't know, anybody. Cecil Beaton, Diana Cooper . . . And there I am sitting down with these creatures of the 20th century, and it was normal to us.

Halston was one of the hardest-working designers I have come across. The way he cut, moulded, manipulated and draped fabric was inspiring. I was submerged into the Halston subculture alongside Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, Elizabeth Taylor and Truman Capote. They shaped who I have become as a designer.

Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.