Maureen Dowd Quotes

I can pretty much call anyone, whether at the White House, in a company or in the media. I have access, because of the silliness of the entertainment world and how people react to it. It gave me an enormous opportunity to do anything I really want to.

Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make that any man anywhere.

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

I think money, power, fame changes people a lot.

It's not really an original idea, but there's something that goes along with power and celebrity that starts to make you feel like you're impervious to certain forces that the rest of us have to live with.

He's a TV producer, a theatrical impresario, and he wants to be treated as Mr. Windsor but when the going gets rough he wants to be treated like a member of the Royal Family.

Money, celebrity and power can be very intoxicating.

It's funny, because there are so many stereotypes out there about actors and movie stars in general, but I've had a great opportunity to meet a lot of them, and maybe it's just because they don't behave that way around me, but I rarely see that kind of abuse of power.

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.

Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame.

I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.

People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

It's very hard to shame people in Hollywood into anything because they don't often feel that kind of shame.

The bigger your platform gets - it kind of feels like being Godzilla sometimes. You make a slight move and you can accidentally knock over a building. It's a tough thing to navigate.

I give celebrity my undivided indifference. Now that it's here, there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. And people who complain about celebrity and any kind of privilege are, all of them, whinging morons, and they should keep their first-world problems to themselves. I feel very strongly about that.

Being a star comes with not just fame and fortune, but with awareness and responsibility.

The term "intellectual" is used conventionally to refer to people who happen to have unusual opportunities in this regard, and as always, opportunity confers moral responsibility.

I was a kid when I did the hit show 'Kasturi' in 2007. Maybe stardom went to my head and I thought I was bigger than I actually was. I took everything for granted.

No, I never felt cornered because I was not a big director's son or a star's son.

I realize I live in a bubble, and all the opportunities are there to me. And having done a number of popular TV series, I'm mildly famous in certain situations, and lots of doors open to me.

When you have a voice, you also have a moral obligation to use that voice for good.

With fame comes the responsibility of what you say. If the country is watching you, there ought to be substance, something worthwhile to speak about.

Am I the only one who exposes? Just because I don't have a godfather, or I'm not a star kid, I'm told that I expose. I don't care.

I feel like everyone needs to respect Paris Hilton.

People want to dethrone you from the pedestal that you're on when you have a platform, when you have a voice.