Celebrities Who Regret Becoming Famous: See Quotes!

Billie Eilish

Speaking with the Los Angeles Times in June 2021, Billie recalled what it was like after releasing her first single, “Ocean Eyes.”

“I hated going outside. I hated going to events. I hated being recognized,” she said. “I hated the internet having a bunch of eyes on me. I just wanted to be doing teenager s–t.”

“Fame f–king sucks,” Billie told Tidal during a March 2018 interview. “I hate it. But it’s great, though.”

“It’s really weird. It’s like nothing I would ever think it is,” Billie added of her stardom. “When this kind of thing happens, you just have to be like, ‘S–t, OK. Great. Let’s just go with it.’”

Megan Fox

“I don’t think people understand,” the Jennifer’s Body actress told Esquire in 2013. “They all think we should shut the f–k up and stop complaining because you live in a big house or you drive a Bentley. So your life must be so great. What people don’t realize is that fame, whatever your worst experience in high school, when you were being bullied by those ten kids in high school, fame is that, but on a global scale, where you’re being bullied by millions of people constantly.”

Anne Hathaway

“I didn’t know how to do it; I didn’t know how to engage with it; it stressed me out,” the Academy Award winner expressed to Elle U.K. in 2014 about being famous. “And people would say, ‘You just have to be yourself,’ and I was like, ‘But I don’t know who that is yet!’”

Lady Gaga

For the “Poker Face” artist, her fame as made it difficult to leave her house. “I’m very acutely aware that once I cross that property line, I’m not free anymore. As soon as I go out into the world, I belong, in a way, to everyone else. It’s legal to follow me. It’s legal to stalk me at the beach,” she explained on CBS Sunday Morning in 2016. “And I can’t call the police or ask them to leave. And I took a long, hard look at that property line, and I said, ‘Well, if I can’t be free out there, I can be free in here.’”

Kristen Stewart

“Fame is the worst thing in the world,” the Spencer actress told Harper’s Bazaar U.K. in 2015. “Especially if it’s pointless. When people say, ‘I want to be famous’ – why? You don’t do anything?”

Shailene Woodley

“I’m fine with saying the normal ‘F’ and ‘C’ words, but famous and celebrity are off-limits in my book, I just think they are nasty words,” the Big Little Lies actress told Paper magazine in 2011.

Harrison Ford

Fans saw Harrison Ford make quite the comeback over the last few years as he reprised his roles as Han Solo and Indiana Jones. However, the Hollywood star has never enjoyed the limelight, and once said that “there was nothing good about being famous.”

“What a burden that is for anybody,” Harrison told Digital Spy in a 2010 interview. “It was unanticipated and I’ve never enjoyed it. You can get the table you want in a restaurant. It gets you doctor’s appointments. But what’s that worth? Nothing.”

Zach Galifianakis

Zach Galifianakis first shot to fame when he starred in The Hangover alongside Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms. Unfortunately, Zach later admitted to not enjoying all of the notoriety that came with being famous.

“It’s dumb. I’m not interested in it,” Zach said in a press conference for a screening of Birdman. “I like to be an actor and that’s it. … We have people telling us we should pay attention to these people for the wrong reasons — their personal lives and that stuff.”

Ana de Armas

Ana de Armas wasn’t ready for the fame that came along after she starred in hits like Knives Out.

“It’s funny as an actor because you do what you do and you don’t think of the consequences of your job, and then all of a sudden you are in the spotlight and you realize ‘Oh, this is not what I wanted!’” the actress said in an interview with Flaunt.