When I was nineteen years old, I was the number-one star for two years. When I was forty, nobody wanted me. I couldn't get a job.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work.
My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.
Eventually I lost the idea that I could have a career. I thought I was too old.
I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.
When I came out, I was 68, and I was totally prepared for my career to recede when I spoke to the press for the first time. What happened after that blew me away. I started getting more offers. My career blossomed.
And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.
I didn't care about being the 'star.' I just wanted to make a living and have a consistent career.
I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it's a lot of work. It's work to be a star. I don't enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.
My mother said I was a star when I was about four years old. That's all I need.
I don't know if I was a star. I was certainly working a lot and that was strange because there were good things about it and things that were difficult.