Davey Havok Quotes

Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

There's no royalty in America, so people deify actors.

We are making gods out of global celebrities.

If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.

I've been thinking a lot about how we worship celebrity and how we have Elvis and Marilyn Monroe and Jesus all on the same playing field.

I'd much rather be part of a society which greatly honors and respects people who are altruists and who are effective in their altruism, than one that either admires people because they're, you know, celebrity movie stars or because they're super wealthy just no matter what they do with their wealth because I think we ought to try to encourage more people to act in that way.

People living their lives for you on TV; They say they're better than you, and you agree.

I'm a human just like any of the people that you adore, whether they're in TV shows or movies or they're writers or YouTubers. Their lives are not perfect.

We live in a celebrity-obsessed society.

Celebrity culture is something that pains me.

I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.

What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'

There are certain people who prize celebrity over substance. That makes the media world go round. The media needs those people to exist.

People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.

I never really looked up to celebrities when I was young.

I don't think actors need to go on pedestals. I don't buy it.

I probably should get a bit more star-struck but I never do.

It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.

A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.

For the same reason we have the Brad Pitts and the George Clooneys, it's just part of human nature to idolize stereotypes.

I never get star-struck. I never fanboy. Ever, ever, ever.

I don't really get star struck.

I've never really had that whole 'starstruck' part to me.

For me, Mr. T and Donald Trump are the same sort of phenomenon - they're guys with catchphrases and wacky hair.