Cult of celebrity

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Audrey Hepburn was a famous Hollywood actress, but her sons realized how popular she was only at her funeral. Hepburn just wanted to be their loving mom without the illusion of fame tainting their perception. Some quotes about fame and the cult of celebrity:

Image is one thing, and the human being is another. It’s hard to live up to an image! —Elvis Presley

You may be married to a star, but that doesn’t mean they’ll treat you like one. —Jess C. Scott

Some girls get swept up in lifestyle-clubbing and partying with celebrities. But, you can’t live your life like that—because it’s fake! —Gemma Ward

The most reliable topics for small talk are the goings-on of stars—whether they’re rising or falling, and whether nor not a story about them is truth or fiction. This is way out of balance! It invades the privacy of men and women who didn’t give up being human when they became famous. —Victoria Moran

Vanity

In an earlier age, it might have been possible to believe that goodness would prevail over pride—but, not anymore. These days, people are proud with impunity, because there’s nobody to contradict them—and because narcissism is no longer considered a vice. That’s what the cult of celebrity is about. We fête these people and feed their vanity! —Alexander McCall Smith

To create what it does, Hollywood draws young people, often of unstable temperament, from all over the world, plunges them into exacting work, surrounds them with a sensuous life, and cuts them off from the normal sources of living. —Max Lerner

Fame makes you permanently feel like a girl walking past construction workers. —Brad Pitt

People look at us head to toe, judge us, and think that we’re not human. We are. Nobody’s a celebrity but God! —Beyoncé Knowles