Lauren Greenfield Quotes

Among some of the youngsters, I think reality TV has installed that culture into them and inspired a few of them into wanting to be 'TV celebrities.'

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

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

Australians aren't really that crazy; in L.A. you get a little crazier. From my experience at least, Aussies don't really care that much about celebrities or things like that.

Our idea of happiness, some of it, is very tied to the cult of celebrity: there is this golden, wonderful life that I want, and if I dress like that, I'm on my way there.

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

I have no interest in changing Hollywood. Hollywood is a place so consumed by the spirit of the world that I don't even want to try to think about how to infiltrate that.

The 'Gossip Girl' idea and ideologies, like, they sort of encourage this certain kind of, like, materialism and superficiality that isn't, I would say, the best thing in the world.

I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.

There are many cultural scenes in Lahore, just as there are in London. And there is a celebrity culture here, just as there is in London. But in Lahore, the celebrity scene doesn't drown out the rest quite so much.

Being in Hollywood is like being in the Christian right these days.

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'

They're just big in the eyes of the American public.

I can't bear to look at Paris Hilton and all that. I mean, it really doesn't grab me. I don't think she's interesting, and the sense of values seems sort of off-kilter.

Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.

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.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

The more you pander to what is, presumably, the taste of young people, the more you corrupt.

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

The more celebrities I meet, the more disappointed I get in celebrity culture.

L.A., for me, is a perfect microcosm of America - because it's so profligate, and so glamorous, and so anti-intellectual, finally.

There are all these tests that are done on young kids and they all say they want to be famous but I just always felt that for my generation being famous was kind of corny and cheesy. Maybe because fame isn't something that proves you're good at something.

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

I am obsessed by Kim Kardashian; I do try to find out what Kim's up to.

The modern holy trinity is money, sex and celebrity.