Richard D. Zanuck Quotes

I was once asked by Jeremy Paxman what is it about celebrity and said that people these days seem to think a celebrity is someone who has escaped the constraints of ordinary people: that they don't have the same kind of problems, almost as if they're classical gods.

Movie stars are now less remote, less fantasized.

It's a hard thing for me to wrap my mind around the C word: celebrity. Rock stars are celebrities because they're larger than life. As an actor, you have to play the everyman and the everygirl. If you start treating people in the real world like assistants, that's not a good look. But my friends keep me grounded.

I think politicians and movie actors … are similar in more ways than they’re different. There is an egocentric quality about both; there is a very sensitive awareness of the public attitude, because you live or die on public favor or disfavor. There is the desire for publicity and for acclaim, because, again, that’s part of your life... And in a strange and bizarre way, when movie actors come to Washington, they’re absolutely fascinated by the politicians. And when the politicians go to Hollywood, they’re absolutely fascinated by the movie stars. It’s a kind of reciprocity of affection by people who both recognize in a sense they’re in the same racket.

We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods.

We live in a celebrity-obsessed society.

In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.

With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.

Celebrities, movie stars and rock stars are losing their mystique.

I still get excited about meeting celebrities, because I don't think I'm a celebrity myself.

I don't think people look at how pop stars live and feel anything aspirational at all.

Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred.

Celebrity is very weird.

I feel like when you're a celebrity, people dehumanize you and they forget you're a real person.

I don't like being a celebrity, really... Some people get greater praise than they deserve because they have had exposure in the media. I don't think I agree with that at all.

I don't consider being a musician the same thing as being a celebrity.

Why does everyone think they need to be a star? It's ridiculous. The celebrity culture is so silly, and the fact that people grow up thinking that it's something to aspire to just seems wrong. I don't mean to bash my life. I love my life; I just think it's not the only way to go.

What I've realized is celebrities are regular people.

People worship anyone in the entertainment industry. You can be a used-car salesman and have a television commercial on the local station, and that makes you a celebrity.

There's such a fascination with celebrity. I think that's a very different thing to being an actor.

A celebrity can gain attention in our otherwise busy lives. And celebrity sells.

I'm obsessed with celebrities and fame. I always will be.

Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.

Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.

I'm so not a celebrity.