I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Even though I was manically overachieving and involved in everything, I still never felt like I belonged. That's definitely affected my whole life and why I wanted to become an actor and tell people stories, because communication and feeling like you belong is such an integral part of our social fabric.
The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.
I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and an actor. Most people know me as a singer, but I am also an actor.
I knew I was going to be famous later in life.
For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
Being a known person is pretty much all I've known. I don't remember much of a time when people didn't know who I was.
A lot of preconceived notions that I had about fame and status and money and joy and pain, and all of these things that I thought I knew, I didn't.
Everybody in the world knew who I was before I knew who I was.
I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.
My audience knows me, and I wear beautiful clothes as a badge of honor. They remember where I came from.
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