Mike Figgis Quotes

I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others.

Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?

I don't think I'm supposed to boss other people around just because I'm a so-called celebrity or star. I hate that when people act that way. No one deserves it. I've seen it happen. I don't call those people out - they know who they are. Some enjoy that reputation.

'Heathers' was probably the first time when I started to notice that people were opening doors for me and giving me tables at restaurants, regardless of what I was wearing. A whole world opened up to me that was shocking and weird and different, and I enjoyed it, and, you know, I took great advantage of it at times.

I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.

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

If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.

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

I know what it means to do a job... I worked in a factory. I respect people in the service industry. What irritates me more is when people aren't respectful. There's a lot of nonsense behavior, especially in a place like Hollywood. The money, the power, they create little monsters.

It would be disrespectful to take my stardom and bully my way into the fashion industry.

I always thought I should be treated like a star.

It's hard not to get a big head in the film industry, there are people on a set paid to cater to your every need, from the minute you arrive until you go home. It's kind of strange, but not unpleasant.

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

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.

One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them.

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.

Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press.

You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.

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.

A lot of people my age who are working right now have never acted; they get a show and suddenly they're making millions. It's always those people who get it fast who have the most trouble staying grounded and being themselves.

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

I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune.

I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement.

I've definitely met nightmare Hollywood types who think they're getting twenty million dollars a picture when they're not. But they act like it. And they just insult everybody.

Being a celebrity, you can remain a child for ever, almost. You get away with more; you can get too pampered and it's not healthy.