Kathryn Stockett Quotes

Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language.

I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.

It's cool for young guys to see what their idols are doing.

'Keeping Up with the Kardashians' is interesting, intriguing.

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

I do tend to sometimes keep myself updated with whatever is trending but I don't really follow fashion trends.

There's more to distract people, isn't there? When I was a kid there was music and football and clothes. And that was kind of it, really. Those three things defined you as a person.

It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me as a kid. I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win.

When I heard Cristiano Ronaldo was pictured holding a manbag, I was surprised it was a gucci bag and not another guy's sack.

I don't want to know what people are doing. Like, I don't need to know who's got a new music video and who's got a new lipstick.

We chat about clothes and if we're going on the red carpet we definitely talk about what we are going to wear.

There's two or three lifestyle pages that I like. I like Hypebeast, and obviously, I follow @BritishGQ.

I think people are interested in celebrities because it's easy, disposable entertainment and it's fun escapism.

We are in love with youth culture in this country... It permeates every aspect of people's lives.

Even though I love fashion and the red carpet dresses are a great, fun, glorious thing, I don't really have my finger on the pulse, as Phryne Fisher does, of the fashion industry.

I grew up off 'The Simple Life' where they really made just being a personality a thing.

I'm definitely curious. I love pop culture. I'm glued to it. I can watch garbage TV, but then I can also watch great theater.

It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.

If I got a dollar every time someone told me to name my future kid 'Batmo' I'd almost have enough to pay for therapy for a kid named Batmo.

In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.

The best part about being a superstar is that you can wear the most outrageous of clothes and they say 'it's in!'

Why isn't Tilda Swinton on the covers of tons of magazines? Well, she's not that. It isn't her thing. But I don't know. I think that suddenly a time came when models, after the Linda Evangelista crowd, and Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington, when the models for me became a bit bland. But I think more than that, the culture changed. The movies, television, music, and all of those things - those people were more visual and therefore more interesting.

People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.

The kids are interested in the music of them. They're not interested in mop-tops and Beatle boots and crazy suits. It's all down to the music now - that's what they hear, and that's what they love.

Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual mourning for their lives.