Kirsten Dunst Quotes

I make movies for money, exclusively for money.

But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.

If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.

So many of the kids on television have really nice clothes, perfect skin and hair.

I think fashion, mishandled, can be quite toxic. It becomes about image and the cult of celebrity. I think when an artist is seen at a lot of parties as a celebrity, I find that worrying. I think it can limit them.

A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that.

I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

I don't like it when reviews aren't about the movie. When they're about how much money somebody made, or who they're sleeping with, or if they got the job via some connection, or about how Fox is putting X amount of dollars into it.

It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.

The industry is all about money. It has nothing to do with talent and calibre. The star system is a money game.

Hollywood is Hollywood. It'll never change, although it does go through its own transformations. I think that there's this obsessiveness with making money, which has gotten out of proportion.

I think our cinema has stayed in its adolescent stage largely because of our obsession with and our dependence upon stars to make our movies. The stars, being only too human, realise that this is the case, and so they milk it for whatever it's worth, and who can blame them?

I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and eventually I did it for the money.

I've spent the better part of two decades running both toward and away from an image - the Hollywood image - that had come to define me.

I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.

If you look at pop culture as the main picture you see of black men, all these kind of threatening pictures and - I think those of us who are artists and who are in media have to think carefully about what those pictures are.

If anything, I feel a bit of pressure to write about less disenfranchised people, because I'd probably sell more books that way and would've already had some hot property that I could've sold to Hollywood.

I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.

It's not the job of the art to accommodate me and make me more money, make me more famous and get me more girls.

I don't like the Kardashians, but I still live a full life.

I do not feel intimidated by actors or stars because I was never exposed to films widely.

That messed me up, growing up in the public eye when I was a teenager. That's when everyone is trying to find themselves.

I don't want girls to aspire to being famous for the sake of being famous.