Lee Siegel Quotes

I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others.

I've never thought of myself as having that much of a temper. But it's true that I can't stand it when things are not done properly. When that happens, I cannot control my reaction.

Entitled people drive me insane. The world owes you nothing! Get over it!

Celebrities become divas because they get pampered so much, babied so much - then they get used to it.

People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.

I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it.

It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy.

Hollywood is like living in a weird bubble. A bunch of people take care of you and get you stuff, and you're the center of that little microcosmic world. You start believing that it is real and... you deserve it.

I've been a golden boy for too long.

Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.

People who take more than their share usually feel an inflated sense of entitlement.

I see kids and young adults walking the streets of L.A. with this enormous sense of entitlement, who seem to think that if they are basically good people and pay their bills, then the world will be good back to them. And I think life isn't always like that.

People seem to take as much offence as they possibly can these days - it's almost a new type of greed, a new kind of road rage.

There are still a lot of people who have the expectation that they're entitled to everything and want to pay for nothing.

Entitlement is lethal.

Every time you feel entitled, you're making a mistake.

Some athletes take what we have for granted. They kind of feel, 'I'm here, and I earned this, so people who are not on this level should just give me what I want and move out the way.'

As Americans, I think we're a very entitled bunch.

This millennial generation... you guys seem so entitled.

We are living in a culture where we are so led by the visual, and what is promoted in the media, that the attitude becomes, 'I don't have to go through normalcy in life - I can look for exemptions. And I expect them, and when I look for them and they are not there, I am angry.'

There is a strand of self-absorption and fragility running through this generation; all too ready to cry 'victim' at the first hint of a situation they don't like.

I was a kitchen porter for an hour at the Bank of England when I was 18. In the cafe, someone clicked their fingers and shouted, 'Boy, come and clear my table.' I walked out.

The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.

I think that sometimes people [who overreact or lash out] will hang on to their point just because they're so embarrassed that they made it. They won't set it down because they are the authors of these [disproportionate responses] and they have a lot to be embarrassed about.

Entitlement and privelege corrupt.